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  • The Stuarts motto being Noblis est ira leonis and meaning ‘The wrath of the lion is honorable’, the MacKenzie motto being Luceo no uro and meaning ‘I shine but not burn’ and the Hill motto Avancez meaning simply ‘Advance’.

    The Sgarabhaigh Silver Sixpence : Coin Collecting News 2009

  • Libera eas de ore leonis, ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum;

    Missa pro Defunctis: Domine Jesu Christe (Offertorium) bls 2009

  • Also, I think that Unicorn horns were important to the clergy at it appears in the Psalter four times, such as in 21:22 salva me ox leonis et a cornibus unicornium humilitatem meam.

    Revenge of the WMAM 2008

  • To see sub exuviis leonis onagrum, a filthy loathsome carcass,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [Gryphones, de quibus Paulus Venetæ] Nec non et gryphi illic apparent pro media posteriori parte in forma leonis, pro anteriori in forma aquilæ.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And you've got Yao Ming on a stamp from Sierra Leone costing 700 leonis.

    CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2004 2004

  • Ut catulus leonis Jehudah: e praeda, fili mi, ascendisti: incurvavit se, cubuit sicut leo, sicut leo major, quis suscitabit eum?

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Rex gloriae, libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum de poenis inferni, et de profundo lacu: libera eas de ore leonis, ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum: sed signifer sanctus Michael repraesentet eas in lumen sanctam:

    The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book Various

  • This latter when Latinised is _dens leonis_, and in French _dent de lion_.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Herculis antistare autem si facta putabis, longius a uera multo ratione ferere. quid Nemeaeus enim nobis nunc magnus hiatus ille leonis obesset et horrens Arcadius sus?

    The World's Conquerors Lucretius 1912

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