Kevin Barry

I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning. I hear the same groan now, precisely, every morning, when I emerge from my own lair. It's more than an expression of physical weariness - it's an aching of the soul. Even the groans get passed down.

Irish Author

H. P. Lovecraft

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

American Novelist

Michael Paterniti

When in my writing lair, I have no access to the Web. Otherwise, I'm like one of those lab rats on too much sugar. To compile my Google searches would be to see my sludgy, allusive brain at work.

American Writer

Jane Goldman

It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It's white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!

English Writer

Bodhidharma

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Indian Leader

Whitney Houston

I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

American Musician

Used for places in nature where animals live and hide.

Wild setting

Emphasizes the lair as part of an animal's natural lifestyle.

Natural habitat

Lair suggests a place for animals, not typically used for human homes.

Not for humans

Implies a private area where one can be alone and undisturbed.

Personal space

A lair is a refuge, where someone feels protected and at ease.

Safety and comfort

A lair often reflects the personality and tastes of its occupant.

Unique identity

Associated with activities that are hidden from others or illicit.

Connoting secrecy

Often has a negative connotation, especially when linked to villains.

Negative undertone

Used for places where criminals or wrongdoers hide from authorities.

Hideout

 thing you've ever seen. But it is very enlightening. With help from their smaller strawberry hermit crab cousins, they devour the carcass within a week, carrying the bones every which way into their lairs. The scientists are now thinking something

Coconut Crabs Devour Pig...

 because the venom nixes its motivation to walk, and only that. The wasp basically un-checks the escape-from-danger box in the roach's operating system, allowing her to lead her helpless victim back to her lair by its antennae

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 learn in the world well like for example what we like to call lair crashing lair crashing is where mom teaches the kids how to jump up and down on the ice so they can break through to eat the seal pups below

Polar Bear Mom and Cubs...

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Polar Bear Moms and Cubs...

 but mom's not and she alerts the babies the long-nosed snake wants to squeeze the life out of her kids at her signal they retreat to their lair

Squirrels Just Wanna...

 The greatest challenge a vampire hunter can take on is to bring sunlight into a vampire's lair.

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 A snow leopard, the rarest of Himalayan animals. It's a female returning to her lair.

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 a snow leopard the rarest of himalayan animals it's a female returning to her lair

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 a Snow Leopard the rarest of Himalayan animals it's a female returning to her lair