couchant

Could ancient stories of binding love be trickled into a couchant ear?

The chief or top section of the shield displays a couchant lion from the crest of the county borough.

Ting-a-ling, still couchant, greeted him plume dansetti arrested as at disappointment.

The People also takes a great attitude; the People also is calm; motionless as a couchant lion.

Another painting in the same manuscript depicted the Mughal standards having green fields with a couchant lion and rising sun behind it.

A net of gold wire half hid the inner sanctuary on three sides; on the fourth, two couchant gold lions guarded the entry.

Then, following the coal-bright gaze of the demon bird, he discerned in a dark recess the formless bulking of a couchant mass.

Jammy said, 'OK, you drunken Canadian bum, but I should be couchant by now.'

The couchant stag coat-of-arms at the roofline balustrade is van Raey's heraldic shield.

The crest consisted of a gold couchant lion in front of the head and shoulders of a king in a red robe and gold crown.

'And who will be couchant, you transatlantic twitT 'Let Al bomb, he was always better than you.'

On a wreath of the three colors a wyvern without wings sinister couchant reguardant argent, grasping in its dexter claw a pine tree inverted and eradicated proper.

This is very much the case in Italy, where they are usually only one bay deep and are supported on two columns, often resting on couchant lions, as at St Zeno, Verona.

Now if you take that fact in conjunction with the slim couchant feline figure on the other side ... Well, I think you blow this whistle to summon the War Cats.

DUNE TAROT around a couchant sandworm, both figures against a background of a Cheops board The man, worm, and gameboard signify physi cal strength moderated by wisdom IX.

Statues of the latter had been smashed and the pieces thrown into the foundations; fragments of couchant stone jackals, which must have once formed an imposing avenue approaching the pylon, and broken drums gave some idea of the splendour of the original temple.

The Oriental tapestries on the walls, couchant jaguars by the leather sofa, the teakwood desk from Beirut, two Moorish inlaid chairs, the ivory tusks from Mombassa, two small Hindu coffee tables, and his collection of Etruscan cooking pots.

The Flag of the Jaffna Kingdom of the Aryacakravarti line of kings of Jaffna kingdom in northern Sri Lanka consisted of the couchant bull (also called a Nandi), the silver crescent moon with a golden sun.

While I sipped it the big Newfoundland, who had stretched himself in a couchant posture on the hearth-rug ever since Cellini had first entered the room, rose and walked majestically to my side and rubbed his head caressingly against the folds of my dress.

Leaning forward eagerly, she clapped her hands in a sort of fierce ecstasy--and apparently startled by the sound, the tigress rose up from its couchant posture, and shaking itself with a snarling yawn, glared watchfully at the convulsed human wretch whose struggles became with each moment more and more frightful to witness.

He is buried in a Romanesque carved sarcophagus supported on couchant lions, and carved with figures in a blind arcade with the Saviour flanked by the kneeling bishop and an angel and in the two outermost panels, a man riding a fish and a man strangling two dragons.