Lair

Examples

• He rends defenseless women and little children in his lair, but how recently has one of you seen him fight with men? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• His ways are not their ways, and so Tarzan is going back to the lair of his own kind by the waters of the great lake which has no farther shore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The clanging and groaning of the train came nearer, and it staggered slowly into the station like a prey-laden monster into its lair. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He never drove the dread out of its lair within him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Now every nest held happy mates, and hart and hind slumbered blissfully safe in their lair. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The fire leaped out like a wild beast from its lair. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I had stirred in its lair the serpent-hatred of years, but only for a moment. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The boy knew too well for his peace of mind upon whose lair he had lighted. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In the meantime the beasts within the cabin were warily examining the contents of this strange lair. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• At last there is a lair found out where Toughy, or the Tough Subject, lays him down at night; and it is thought that the Tough Subject may be Jo. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Base unbeliever, answered one of his guards, when thou hast seen thy lair, thou wilt not wish thy daughter to partake it. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The dog and his bone, the tigress and her lair, the roaring stag and his herd, these are proprietorship blazing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The statesman has still to oust the politician from his lairs and weapon heaps. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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