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Douglass’ strong features project relentless determination and lionlike pride.

From Seattle Times Aug. 4, 2016

Douglass’s strong features project relentless determination and lionlike pride.

From New York Times Aug. 2, 2016

On Aug. 29 a pair of whimsical, 12-foot-high fiberglass dogs will stand guard like 21st-century Komainu, those mythical lionlike statues commonly placed at the entrance to Japanese shrines to ward off evil spirits.

From New York Times Jul. 15, 2010

Mr. Gutwirth rented a sound-level meter and measured the lionlike snores of Mr. Sheir as they came through the wall.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had recovered his color: ruddy, or even lionlike, she thought.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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