The lower ball was flattened at the top, to serve as a level base for the ferocious-looking brass lion.

It features two brass lions guarding the entrance: the older lion represents wisdom and experience, while the younger one stands for the glorious future.

"Several kinds of spike-tailed brass lions!"

He patted the brass lions nervously.

There was a cast-iron boot scraper at the top of the steps, and on the front door a brass lion's-head knocker.

Susan felt her heart beat faster as she lifted the brass lion's head knocker of number forty-seven, Jameson's house.

Maria watched the brass lion's head for a long time.

The mahogany bar will be wrapped in red leather and studded with brass lions' heads.

Only a few things were immutable: the preposterous fresco on the ceiling, the massive doors with brass lions' heads mounted in their centers.

With hands icy inside her fur-lined gloves, she lifted it, just an old brass lion's head, and let it fall against the wood.