robber-lion

Updated: May 13, 2025

And there existed some chance, some small chance, that the robber-lion, John Ball, might be induced to drop his lamb from his mouth when he heard this premonitory blast, and then the lion's prey might be picked up by "the bold hunter," Mr Maguire would probably have said, had he been called upon to finish the sentence himself; anyone else might, perhaps, say, by the jackal.

Anthony Trollope - Miss Mackenzie