"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool! You aren't nearly through this adventure yet." —Bilbo Baggins to himself after confronting Smaug[3] Dragons were ancient, intelligent, powerful creatures, as feared as they were admired in Middle-earth. Thei
Cardan doubted their having been fabricated, since they had been sent in vessels at different times, and yet all presented the same remarkable form. Bellonius states that he had seen whole carcases [sic] of winged dragons, carefully prepared, which he considered to be of the same kind as ...
Consider how much stronger her influence is over these dragons than we pure metallics—something seen even in the best of times in their aggressive temperaments and sharp tongues. We cannot blame our cousins for this weakness; we can only pity them, and be even vigilant lest they fall prey t...
Dragon, in the mythologies, legends, and folktales of various cultures, a large lizard- or serpent-like creature, conceived as evil in some traditions and as beneficent in others. In medieval Europe, dragons were usually depicted with wings and a barbed
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For this reason, he is commonly seen on either end of rooftops in China and will consume all evil influences that try to enter.Bi’an Dragon (狴犴) is a wise and eloquent dragon. Legend has it that Bi’an’s father watched him settle a dispute between two merchants....
Julie Bowen and Bruce Campbell star as, respectively, a suburban mom and a seen-it-all cop in Peacock’s “Hysteria!,” which turns the very real Satanic Panic of the ’80s into a rollicking, heavy-metal flavored comedy about demons.The two actors, who already lived through the 1980s, ...
22.C 考查介词.根据句子:In European legends,dragons are usually seen (22)greedy (贪婪的) and cruel winged devils (恶魔).可知在欧洲的传说中,龙通常被看做是贪婪和残忍的恶魔.短语be seen as表示被看做…故选C.23.D考查名词.根据句子:Any knight (骑士) who killed a dragon was able to get not...
Adam, the first human being, is not male. Adam, whose real name is Adamah, is androgynous. In one body coexisteou cohachatte Lilith and Adam, the Woman and Man. A rabbi will say: the feminine and masculine principle. Gibberish that all! Adamah is hermaphrodite, that’s all. Bisexual. ...
The Barbers’ argument rests, to a large degree, on the argument that the dragon’s body seems to disappear–that it is nowhere to be seen when Wiglaf, Beowulf’s young kinsmen who came to Beowulf’s assistance in the battle, inspects the hoard: ...