Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has great courage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A very brave person.
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Examples
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Instead we have Stuart Pearce, the lion-heart with the flag of St George in his back garden.
FA insists that Harry Redknapp will not be the only candidate 2012
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Far back when I went zig-zagging through tamarack pastures you were my genius, you my cast-iron Viking, my helmed lion-heart king in prison.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Distant Celestial Fires Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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He should watch over the manyheaded monster like a good husbandman, fostering and cultivating the gentle qualities, and preventing the wild ones from growing; he should be making the lion-heart his ally, and in common care of them all should be uniting the several parts with one another and with himself.
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And thence my spirit the impress took, and many a lion-heart chief I drew,
The Frogs 2000
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"How know you, my brave lion-heart; you belong to those days, but I am content."
A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny
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And thence my spirit the impress took, and many a lion-heart chief I drew,
The Frogs 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Ha! Richard of the lion-heart, thou art a coward now!
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They had found the Cathedral, and a statue of Richard the Lion-hearted, over the spot where the lion-heart itself was buried; the identical organ, fat Sergeant Hicks assured him.
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They had found the Cathedral, -- and a statue of Richard the Lion-hearted, over the spot where the lion-heart itself was buried; "the identical organ," fat Sergeant Hicks assured him.
One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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Next to her I saw Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon, who lay in the arms of mighty Zeus, and bare Heracles of the lion-heart, steadfast in the fight.
Book XI Homer 1909
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