| Could he not best serve the administration by bearding disunionism in its den? |
| No one wanted to undertake the venture of bearding the lion in his den. |
| He had no notion of bearding any of the Confederate lionesses in their dens. |
| But, my Cid, better to think of bearding the lion than of celebrating the hunting. |
| Believing that what was good to practice was good to preach, I concluded that I would risk a course of procedure that is sometimes called bearding the lion in his den. |
| It was the most squalid of Gretnas, bearding the decency and common-sense of a whole metropolis. |
