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In vain the Chief Justice rose, his lionlike face livid with anger, pounded for order, and commanded the galleries to be cleared.

His uniform was not too bright and he was an imposing figure—lionlike was the simile that occurred to Prescott.

A magnificent fellow he is too, with his bushy orange fur and lionlike head.

With a roar that was almost lionlike in its ferocity, he again hurled himself at the man.

The foxy or feline element was small in a nature, into which so much magnanimity, supposed to be lionlike, entered.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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