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Leonine 1. connected with one of the popes called Leo 2. Leonine City a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber fortified by Pope Leo IV 3. of or relating to certain prayers in the Mass prescribed by Pope Leo XIII (1810--1903; pope 1878--1903) 4. a. a type of medieval hexameter or elegiac verse having internal rhyme b. a type of English verse with internal rhyme How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In fear perhaps before a Furious, yellow, blond and curled Leonine monster? In one of the two, Archer, to his surprise, recognised Ned Winsett; the other and older, who was unknown to him, and whose gigantic frame declared him to be the wearer of the "Macfarlane," had a feebly leonine head with crumpled grey hair, and moved his arms with large pawing gestures, as though he were distributing lay blessings to a kneeling multitude. It is there that I, intent on my own investigations, have passed and re-passed a hundred times the worn leonine face, white as the snow beneath him, furrowed with wrinkles like the seams and gashes upon the North Cape; the nervous hand, integrally a part of the mechanism of his flighter; and above all, the wonderful lambent eyes turned to the zenith. |
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