"Dragon's blood" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... revered dust somewhere off toward the hills that dimly met the melting sky line—had told him of that ruined city, wherein he, Kan Wong, had not Fate made men mad, would now be ruling a lordly household, even wearing the peacock feather and embroidered jacket that were his by right of the Dragon's blood, that blood now hidden under the sun-browned skin of a river coolie. Kan Wong stuffed fine-cut into his brass-bowled pipe and struck a spark from his tinder box. Through his wide nostrils twin streamers of smoke writhed out, twisting fantastically ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... is old. Achilles is not quite invulnerable; the sacred waters did not wash the heel by which Thetis held him. Siegfried, in the Nibelungen, is not quite immortal, for a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the dragon's blood, and that spot which it covered is mortal. And so it must be. There is a crack in every thing God has made. It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares even into ...
— Essays, First Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... red roses, lapididis hoematis, white frankincense, of each half an ounce. Dragon's blood, fine bole, mastic, of each two drachms; nutmeg, cloves, of each one drachm; spikenard, half a scruple, with oil of wormwood; make a plaster for the lower part of the belly, then let her eat candied eringo root, and make an injection only of ...
— The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher • Anonymous
... the Dragon's blood, And calls so angry and so loud? That English dog who looks so proud— If I could catch him in my claw— With my long teeth and horrid jaw, Of such I'd break up half a score, To stay my appetite for more. Marrow from his ...
— The Peace Egg and Other tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing |
