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.