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Definition of Firedrakes
1. firedrake [n] - See also: firedrake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firedrakes
Literary usage of Firedrakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Northern Mythology: Comprising the Principal Popular Traditions and by Benjamin Thorpe (1851)
"The important part played by dragons, firedrakes and the like in the old songs,
legends and romances, where the killing of a dragon forms one of a hero's ..."
2. Shakespeare's Theater by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1916)
"... is reprinted here to indicate the variety of the wardrobe.1 I senator's gown,
I hood, 5 senators capes. 1 suit for Neptune, firedrakes suits for 'Dobe. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1885)
"... and firedrakes, these were to the people of that age as real as the objects
which met their view in daily life, and to doubt their existence was, ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1841)
"He deals in signs and portents, firedrakes,fighting armies, and bloody banners
in the welkin, and stars showering from the sky. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1863)
"... and, because he did not choose to believe in a water-baby when he saw it, she
made him believe in worse things than waterbabies—in unicorns, firedrakes, ..."
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