How To Use Couchant In A Sentence
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Lucas couchant, and became Lucas rampant, fanged and langued gules.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
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There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
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* And if descriptivism is rampant, would prescriptivism be "couchant"?
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“The crest is a Stag couchant, vulnerated through the neck by a broad arrow; on his side is a Martlett for a difference.”
Kenilworth
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Hence it is that not a muffineer in all Mayfair lacks its lion couchant or its mermaid rampant.
Flush: a biography
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There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
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In Curzon's figure the lion is standing, not 'couchant', as stated by
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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Lions couchant are carved above the smaller arches and the structure is covered with Tasmanian stone.
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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
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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
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How one couchant beast, with its imperturbable gravitas, a heraldic chunk of London itself, moved without lifting a paw, from the site on the south bank of the Thames being cleared for the Festival of Britain in 1951, to Waterloo Station with its martial trappings, and on to its present eminence alongside the decommissioned County Hall.
The Festival of Britain, 60 years on
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In the aisle stands another altar-tomb, which has the sides panelled and adorned with shields of arms and bears the figure of an earlier Sir Thomas Markenfield, clad in armour of the period between Poitiers and Agincourt, and wearing a very curious collar of park palings with a stag couchant in front, possibly
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
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And upon the top of that one of the stone pillars supporting the gate which I could see, stood a creature of stone, whether natant, volant, passant, couchant, or rampant, I could not tell, only it looked like something terrible enough for a quite antediluvian heraldry.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
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Lorsque au soleil couchant les rivières sont roses
Archive 2008-06-01
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There was a soiled and tawdry mirror above a massive metal and marble clock supported by a lion couchant on the mantelshelf.
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The latter, that couchant elephant with its head turned to the north-east, seems as if it wished to bar the pass with its trunk; by its trunk I mean a kind of jaggy ridge which descends down to the road.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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On the dexter and sinister sides, two demi-doctors, issuant of the second, and two cane heads, issuant of the third; the first having one eye, couchant, towards the dexter side of the escutcheon; the second faced, per pale, proper, and gules guardant.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
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I asked, peering at the crest, with its faded leopard couchant, and the printing below, more legible than the handwriting.
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