couchant

How To Use couchant In A Sentence

• Lucas couchant, and became Lucas rampant, fanged and langued gules. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
• There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
• * And if descriptivism is rampant, would prescriptivism be "couchant"? Languagehat.com: REALLY MISPLACED.
• “The crest is a Stag couchant, vulnerated through the neck by a broad arrow; on his side is a Martlett for a difference.” Kenilworth
• Hence it is that not a muffineer in all Mayfair lacks its lion couchant or its mermaid rampant. Flush: a biography
• There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
• In Curzon's figure the lion is standing, not 'couchant', as stated by Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
• Lions couchant are carved above the smaller arches and the structure is covered with Tasmanian stone.
• In one courtyard, a mangy, flea-ridden griffon lay couchant, chained to the wall, flies buzzing around its slow-blinking head. Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
• a small pug-dog "couchant" before it, resolved to guard the treasure even at the sacrifice of life -- and a front-door standing invitingly half-open. Sylvie and Bruno