Nita thought of an old sculpture she had seen once, a wounded lion favoring one forelimb-weary and in pain, but still dangerous.

Wulf leapt at Hassan as a wounded lion leaps.

The man who habitually follows wounded lions into thick cover must be a hunter of the highest skill, or he can count with certainty on an ultimate mauling.

It took a peculiar kind of courage to follow a wounded lion into thick cover without carrying a weapon.

Now at the age of 42, with a United States Open and British Open and 22 PGA Tour victories, Miller is a wounded but sated old lion.

The baron knew that Conan was like a wounded lion that rends and tears even in his death-throes.

But the desperate fury of a cornered and wounded lion was mine.

Hooray for Holl-eee-wood ... Like a pride of wounded lions delivered from torrential floods in the African veldt, the men of Suicidal Six struggled to their feet and unsteadily lurched toward one another, forming a less than perfect circle.

And so those two brave-hearted fellows made their way amidst the yelping roughs, like two wounded lions amidst a pack of wolves and jackals.

True, wounded lions do not enter largely into the ordinary married life, but it is nice for a wife to know that, if one does happen to come along, she can leave it with every confidence to her husband to handle.