To the right, above the live lion, is a beardless mounted hunter in a tunic and another nude standing figure.

Ahmad ibn Abi al-Ash'ath observed the physiology of the stomach in a live lion in 959.

'But now,' he said, 'they're bellowing that a live hog is better than a live lion!'

One year he dressed up as a gladiator and shared a float with a live lion.

He renovated it and put a live lion and lioness on display to draw attention to his business.

To attract attention, a live lion, symbolic of the lion heads on the facade, was outside the hotel.

Me, I've always preferred to be a live lion, so that puts me outside the rules.

'Only this morning I was thinking how right they were to say it was better to be a dead horse than a live lion.'

I mean better to flog a dead horse than a live lion.' '

The crofter, thinking of his own personal interest, was more acutely aware of the difference between a live lion and a dead duck.