Lioness [noun]

Attack it like a lioness tearing apart a zebra, and you can knock it out in a little over an hour, with your legs burning from start to finish.

And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

They know that I am a lioness defending her young, and that I alone prevent their daring hands from seizing your crown.

A lioness died, and left two little lion-cubs with no one to take care of them.

The female, like the lioness, however, produces four or five cubs at a time.

He was a young British army officer who was mauled by a lioness several months ago in Somaliland.

This is the way the thing happened: Last March he was shooting in Somaliland and ran across a lioness.

My new friend is as big as a lioness, and of the same sex—and would have one of them down in a moment, if she felt so inclined.

Rushing to the breach, she fought with the desperate bravery of a lioness deprived of her cubs, slaying and wounding on all sides.

Let but a hostile hand make threat again, And they shall see thee in thy ancient strength, Each iron sinew quivering, lioness!