tamer's

Her language gestures at wildness, tries to terrify you like a lion at the end of a leash—but it is tame, and we never lose sight of the lion tamer's whip and chair.

More on lyric nature and the unexpected Lemon Hound 2008

The Plot: A "lazy old lion" escapes the zoo; the lion yawns and out climbs a lazy old lion tamer; under the lion tamer's hat is a lazy old circus mouse; and in the mouse's ear is a teeny tiny stinkbug.

Raising a Little Stink 2006

Her language gestures at wildness, tries to terrify you like a lion at the end of a leash—but it is tame, and we never lose sight of the lion tamer's whip and chair.

Archive 2008-07-01 Lemon Hound 2008

The Plot: A "lazy old lion" escapes the zoo; the lion yawns and out climbs a lazy old lion tamer; under the lion tamer's hat is a lazy old circus mouse; and in the mouse's ear is a teeny tiny stinkbug.

Archive 2006-05-01 2006

Her language gestures at wildness, tries to terrify you like a lion at the end of a leash—but it is tame, and we never lose sight of the lion tamer's whip and chair.

Archive 2007-08-01 Lemon Hound 2007

Her language gestures at wildness, tries to terrify you like a lion at the end of a leash—but it is tame, and we never lose sight of the lion tamer's whip and chair.

Elizabeth Treadwell, Lilyfoil Lemon Hound 2007

But Mr. Gillett's face shone with livelier emotions; he peered into the cells at his charges with a keen bright gaze that had in it something of the animal tamer's zest for his part.

Half A Chance Frederic S. Isham

The tamer's spring aside was too late, He went down on his face, the lioness upon him.

A Little Bush Maid Mary Grant Bruce 1918

The tamer's spring aside was too late, He went down on his face, the lioness upon him.

A Little Bush Maid 1910

The beast in man and woman, though tamed by centuries of civilization, and as cowed as the wretched lions in the tamer's cage, is always thinking of its food.

Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905