In Curzon's figure the lion is standing, not 'couchant', as stated by. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference
With some gilt couchant sphinx both casqued and crowned. From Wordnik.com. [The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence] Reference
At the bottom of the outer arch are two beasts couchant. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828] Reference
The couchant stag in the centre was the Cornwallis crest. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850] Reference
I did behold an Egiptian Monster of Gold, fower footed couchant. From Wordnik.com. [Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame] Reference
Sussex peasant is a pig couchant, with the motto "I wunt be druv.". From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
The rock of Quebec is like a lion couchant beside the St. Lawrence. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
She was graceful as a couchant goddess and, moreover, as self-possessed as. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
I rush rampant to the upper landing in time to see him couchant on the lower. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
A leopard couchant, holding in its paw a bunch of lilies-or were they crocuses?. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
There is a garland of four roses round his head, and at his feet a lion couchant. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
There's even a small couchant lion at the top of the stone steps up to the porch. From Wordnik.com. ['The Senator's Wife'] Reference
These seemed to be a couchant leopard, with the motto, “I sleep; wake me not.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
Ting-a-ling, still couchant, greeted him plume dansetti arrested as at disappointment. From Wordnik.com. [The White Monkey] Reference
Edinburgh, with its couchant crag-lion, but must see it again in dreams, waking or sleeping?. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charlotte Bronte] Reference
Hence it is that not a muffineer in all Mayfair lacks its lion couchant or its mermaid rampant. From Wordnik.com. [Flush: a biography] Reference
First, there are two columns decorated with sculptured clouds, two lions couchant, two lions rampant. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Prochyta quivers at the sound, and the couchant rocks of Inarime, piled above Typhoeus by Jove's commands. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
She began to picture herself traveling with Ralph in a land where these monsters were couchant in the sand. From Wordnik.com. [Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf] Reference
Knowe, on which any man, with a couchant ear close to the grass, may hear fairy tunes piped in the under-world. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Off flew on the wings of Hansom a youthful member, more trusty than the trusted Undy, to the abode of the now couchant. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
A net of gold wire half hid the inner sanctuary on three sides; on the fourth, two couchant gold lions guarded the entry. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
I asked, peering at the crest, with its faded leopard couchant, and the printing below, more legible than the handwriting. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Two lions couchant, seated on wide pedestals beneath a company of noble trees, were the only visible inhabitants of the dwelling. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Then these little sly rogues, how they lie couchant, ready to spring upon us harmless fellows the moment we are in their reach! —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Arms stood, and the old pharmacy, streets which used to lead Out to the wild open world of the castles and stately couchant houses. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
Lucas couchant, and became Lucas rampant, fanged and langued gules. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
Richard Demarco, couchant, with noted Scots caricaturist Emilio Coia. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Cusack] Reference
Solomon's magnificence, with the form of a couchant lion in the same precious metal. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
The lions couchant on the pillars as he passed out through the gate: toothless terrors. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
And Mel replied, quietly for him to hear, 'And as that bird is couchant, Mr. George, you had better look to your sauce.'. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
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