‘It would have been easy to retire and fade back and let the new lions take charge, but this never crossed Al’s mind.’

‘Though this lion has the tendency to be arrogant, sulky or smug, he/she is unrestrained in bed.’

‘Male lions use their manes to attract females, to scare competitors, to make them look bigger and to protect their head and neck during fights.’

‘Female Asiatic lions live an average of 17 to 18 years, with a maximum of 21 years.’

‘He was a Lion, who joined in 1975 and became the first Secretary of the Virgin Gorda Lions Club.’

‘But the former Wasps centre is not about to embark on a playing career in Australia - he has won a national competition to follow the British Lions rugby union team on tour.’

‘‘Rob is a great player and it says everything that he was the first choice scrum-half on two British Lions ’ tours only for injury to get in the way,’ he said.’

‘Though he needs no calling card today, how odd, and even sad, it is that this lion of American letters is still struggling to find his way into print.’

‘When he relates his one adult visit to her - he by then a rising literary lion, she a well-known poet - he recognizes her flat as the home of a religious woman but conveys little sense of what that might mean.’

‘The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings.’

‘Various Aokan emblems, such as the lion capital found on his pillars, have been adopted for official use by the modern state of India.’