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 Lion-sick.Lion and Unicorn. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Lion Tamer (The).
 
Ellen Bright, who exhibited at Wombwell’s menagerie, was so called. She was killed by a tiger in 1880, at the age of seventeen.   1
 


 Lion-sick.Lion and Unicorn. 

 
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