| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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ANDROC’LUS. (See under LION as an emblem.) | 1 |
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SIR IWAIN DE GALLES was attended by a lion, which, in gratitude to the knight, who had delivered it from a serpent with which it had been engaged in deadly combat, ever after became his faithful servant, approaching the knight with tears, and rising on his hind-feet like a dog. | 2 |
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SIR GEOFFREY DE LATOUR was aided by a lion against the Saracens; but the faithful brute was drowned in attempting to follow the vessel in which the knight had embarked on his departure from the Holy Land. | 3 |
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ST. GERASIMUS. (See under LION as an emblem.) | 4 |
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ST. JEROME. (See under LION as an emblem.) | 5 |
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