The breathing of that beast of prey was in my ear always; his fierce heart panted close against mine; he never stirred in his lair but I felt him: I knew he waited only for sun-down to bound ravenous from his ambush.
The hound was called off and hurried away to its lair in the Grimpen Mire, and a mystery was left which puzzled the authorities, alarmed the countryside, and finally brought the case within the scope of our observation.
" whispered the little wretch, rousing a half-bred bull-dog from its lair in a corner.
" "I am of Cyrus' opinion," said the reporter, "and I think that it is among the spurs of Mount Franklin that the convicts will have made their lair.
Casaubon had been a dragon who had carried her off to his lair with his talons simply and without legal forms, it would have been an unavoidable feat of heroism to release her and fall at her feet.
" So when the Green Dragon tore shrieking out of the mouth of its dark lair, which was the tunnel, all three children stood on the railing and waved their pocket-handkerchiefs without stopping to think whether they were clean handkerchiefs or the reverse.
" "I suppose a dragon's lair might look very like that tunnel from the outside," said Phyllis.
Cowabunga that chick in your underground lair all night long.
He lay sick and maimed in his lair.
One morning when a vixen was taking her babies out of the lair, she saw alioness and her cub.
Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books.
When police in the southern state of Santa Catarina busted the gang's lair, the loyal canine laid down alongside its owner and rolled over on its back.
Together with his father, he works long days in the red-splattered lair, taking polystyrene snowflakes, dipping them in a bath of glue, then putting them in a powder-coating machine until they turn red – and making 5,000 of the things every day.
A Wolf, having stolen a lamb from a fold, was carrying him off to his lair.