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Lair
"Lair" in a Sentence (22 examples)
A fox smells its own lair first.
The octopus only exits its lair to look for food or for reproductive purposes.
The Cyclops lifted his cyclopean body out of his cyclopean bed and set about to the cyclopean task of cleaning up the entirety of his cyclopean lair.
Wolverines make their lair under torn-out roots, in rock crevices and in other secluded spots.
Beowulf decided to follow the dragon to its lair.
"Here Scylla, gaping from her gloomy lair, / the passing vessels on the rocks doth hale."
Where is the bandits' lair?
Tom lives in a secret lair underground.
His world was gloomy; but he did not know that, for he knew no other world. It was dim-lighted; but his eyes had never had to adjust themselves to any other light. His world was very small. Its limits were the walls of the lair; but as he had no knowledge of the wide world outside, he was never oppressed by the narrow confines of his existence.
A pack of dogs tracked the fox to its lair.
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O dainty dew, O morning dew / That gleamed in the world's first dawn, did you / And the sweet grass and manful oaks / Give lair and rest / To him who toadwise sits and croaks / His death-behest?
“Would you go into the dragon's lair, my peerless Wiglaf?”
...Van Helsing stood up and said, "Now, my dear friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we all armed, as we were on that night when first we visited our enemy's lair. Armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack?"
[H]e did a little scout work, and discovered the lair of that old woman.
Then would I in Plenty's lap, For the first time take a nap; Falling back in easy lair, Sweetly slumb'ring in my chair;
Wake ye, sleep ye, my hapless boy, In this homeless house of care? Lack ye the warmth of a mother's eye On the cauldrife, lonely lair?
[…] but few knew the reason, and some thought it was because the deceased were strangers, and had no regular lair. I dressed the two bonny orphans in the best mourning at my own cost […]
This is one of the 'lairs' of the Harknesses of Holestain and Haprig.
[…] I would purchase a lair in the Necropolis, and have wee Johnnie removed from his humble resting-place, and laid down [there].
We appreciate that this is a sensitive issue for lair owners and would like to assure them that the maintenance of the cemetery is carried out in a sensitive and dignified manner.
The lee-light that December gies Was lairing in the wast, Whan Christy wi' her oa claes, Was boun' to dree the blast.
The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.
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