' another author said of him on one of his fishing excursions, that 'His rod, it was a sturdy mountain oak, His line, a cable which no storm e'er broke, His hook he baited with a dragon's tail, And sat upon a rock and bob'd for whale!'

The old enchantress well could say, What would befall on distant day; And by her art omnipotent, Could from the watery element Draw fire, and with her magic breath, Seal up a dragon's eyes in death.

CHAPTER XXI THE DRAGON'S SHADOW

The sisters Pandrosos and Herse keep The strict command; Aglauros needs would peep, And saw the monstrous infant in a fright, And called her sisters to the hideous sight: 40 A boy's soft shape did to the waist prevail, But the boy ended in a dragon's tail.

Among the grotesque carvings that line the staircase, I remember in particular one queer old figure with a staff, or rather crutch, thrust in a dragon's mouth, supporting a column.

I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragon's teeth; which being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

This story was believed, too, because once he had gathered all the men in the city who by disease or some other calamity had lost their feet, had fastened some dragon's extremities about their knees, and after giving them sponges to throw instead of stones had killed them with blows of a club, on the pretence that they were giants.

Mercury is posited in the north angle of the fourth house; the dragon's tail is likewise within it; and as Sol is the significator, it must be gold.

A dragon's fiery form belied the god: Sublime on radiant spires he rode, When he to fair Olympia press'd: And while he sought her snowy breast: Then, round her slender waist he curl'd, And stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the world.

The Primrose stanza is known to every one; this is not so familiar: The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower.

But there's a man, Sky-true, sword-strong, and brave to look upon; One that would thrust his hand in dragon's mouth For your bright sake; one that would face the Devil, Would swallow fire BARBARA You would? PIPER [desperately] I?No, not I!

PACKARD, FRANK L. The dragon's jaws.

The dragon's jaws.

Height, 3 ft. Dracocephalum (Dragon's Head).Ornamental plants, mostly bearing lilac or blue flowers.

Height, 2 ft. Dragon's Head.See "Dracocephalum.

On rifted Rocks, the Dragon's late Abodes, The green Reed trembles, and the Bulrush nods.

Like sleeping dragon's sudden eyes The signals leered along the line.

Picking up the brush, he set his name, the name of one of the Dragon's blood, to the contract, accepted a duplicate, and stepped back into the waiting line.

Will ye let escape this horde of Foreign Devil enemies who have hurled at us giant crackers that have spit death, now that they are near enough to feel how the Dragon's blood can strike?

That is the place for a man of the Dragon's bloodand that is the tool that belongs in your hand till we're done with this mess."

135 "The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray, And with a soul of power.

The site of this Dragon's Well is very uncertain, but it is generally identified with Upper Gihon.

The city of Rome was the dragon's seat.

from that impudent dragon's mouth I got a mighty stream of water straight in my unconscious face, and enough to put out a fire.

They sailed homeward over sunny seas, until they came to the shore where the royal lover awaited his bride, impatiently scanning the horizon for the gilded dragon's head of the ship that bore her.