If he'd been an animal, he'd have been a squeaking mouse, not a roaring lion.

No blandness, either, in the brass's roaring lion and the footfall of 'heavy beasts'.

Expect snow, reindeer and a roaring lion.

Of note for the engines were a roaring lion on the smokebox door, a handwheel for a damper, diamond chimney stack and round spoked wheels.

Next to him stands the roaring lion (i.e. the people).