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Another community of farmers living to the south, who had also been harassed by the lions for many years and felt that their future safety lay in the subjugation of the lion tribe, joined their neighbours in arms and went forth with them to the greatest lion-hunt that South Africa has ever had.
"He was just coming home from a lion-hunt, and was very much pleased because he'd killed a lot of lions. He was really a rather horrid man, quite ferocious, and all, but he wore most wonderful purple and red embroidered clothes, the sort you like to hear about.
Psamtik watched him, quivering with excitement, sprang towards the veranda, but before his lips could utter the curse which his heart had prepared, he sank powerless on to the ground. Cambyses beckoned to his followers to make immediate preparations for a lion-hunt in the Libyan mountains. By Georg Ebers The waters of the Nile had begun to rise again.
I haven't seen the carpet yet, but it is to match the furniture; and there is a lovely hearthrug, with a lion-hunt worked on it. "But that isn't the best of it; we are going to have the big children's party after all! No one but children invited, and everyone to do exactly what they like.
Darius Hystaspis, who followed the chase with such ardor as on one occasion to dislocate his ankle in the pursuit of a wild beast, had himself represented on his signet-cylinder as engaged in a lion-hunt. From this representation, we learn that the Persian monarchs, like the Assyrian, pursued the king of beasts in their chariots, and generally despatched him by means of arrows.
And while we are performing this rite of hospitality," says the Hen pretending not to see the jump he give "we can discuss your projected lion-hunt: in which, with your permission, I shall take part." Boston give a bigger jump at that; and the Hen says on to him, sort of explaining matters: "You need not fear that I shall not sustain my end of the adventure.
On Hadrian's return to Alexandria from the Thebaid, the poet presented to him a rose-coloured lotus, a flower well known in India, though less common in Egypt than either the blue or white lotus, and assured him that it had sprung out of the blood of the lion slain by his royal javelin at a lion-hunt in Libya.
Only a year ago there was a gentleman from the East here on a lion-hunt it was his first, and he did not seem to know quite how to manage matters and one of these big fierce ones caught him and finished him. It was very horrible!
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