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Definition of Dragons
1. dragon [n] - See also: dragon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dragons
Literary usage of Dragons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"dragons have also had their contests with saints. St. George defeated a monstrous
dragon ; other holy personages followed his example, and the times became ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"The hieratic traditions of dragons appear at first sight to have been inspired
by the singular forms of these monsters; and it would bo easy enough to ..."
3. China: Its History, Arts and Literature by Frank Brinkley (1902)
"Bowls decorated with dragons pursuing pearls ; outside a balance weighing gold
and playing children. Bowls with bamboo leaves and polyporus fungus, ..."
4. Scandinavian Folk-lore: Illustrations of the Traditional Beliefs of the by William Alexander Craigie (1896)
"STORIES of dragons which fly through the air by night, and vomit fire, ...
dragons brood over gold in the mounds. They are fiery in front like a baker's ..."
5. Lun-hêng by Chʻung Wang, Alfred Forke (1907)
"On dragons (Lung-)tsii). When in midsummer during a thunder-storm lightning
strikes a tree or demolishes a house, it is a common saying that Heaven fetches ..."
6. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"CONCERNING dragons. The land of Ethiopia has a good neighbor which it is to be
envied, ... Now that land is the mother of the size of the largest dragons; ..."
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