After dinner, Billy is out getting water from the stream when he comes across a lion resting on a rock above him.

The idol is four-armed, three and half feet in height, with a lion resting at its back.

But rather than being flanked by tired, waiting travellers, we whiled away the minutes to take-off by looking at a pride of lions resting by the side of the runway.

It depicted a lion resting on a shield bearing the Swiss coat of arms and paid tribute to the 786 members of the Swiss Guard who died defending King Louis and Marie Antoinette during an attack on the Tuileries in 1792.

But the first time she noticed a few lions resting themselves in the shade of stunted pines, she decided it was time to learn something more about the creatures that embodied her totem.

A Warder at his ease and a lion resting on a hill, so went an old saying among Aes Sedai.

The stamps depict a crowned lion resting a paw on a shield with the fleur-de-lis.

Stalin's smile ren-drided Molotov of that of a lion resting against a zebra carcass from which it had just finished feeding.

It shows three single bands framing a three-sprayed tree of medium height, which in turn"frames the heavy figure of a lion resting on its haunches.

A dozen miles into the park, we came upon a pride of nine lions resting in the shade of the acacia and buffalo thorn trees next to the asphalt road.