| 1. | Save wine and women, nothing might assuage His high intent in arms and labour, So was he full of leonine courage. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 2. | Then, in what way the leonine species differ, and then the bovine, and finally birds and arrange this description after the manner of a disquisition. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 3. | A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la Cunette, whose "establishment" had been closed by the riots, became leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |