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  • The famous dragon-headed engine was visible in the distance now, it single eye glowing white hot, smoke spewing from its stacks.

    Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • This is exactly what happens every election season, except that instead of dragon-headed emperors and Titan lawgivers like the ones Campbell portrays, we have human beings such as Barack Obama, Mike Castle, and Adrian Fenty.

    The hero with a thousand races 2010

  • And riding to anchor, close inshore below the bank of trees in which Cadfael stood, a long, lean boat, dragon-headed fore and aft, dipped and rose gently on the tide, central sail lowered, oars shipped, a cluster of vermillion shields draped along its low flank.

    His Disposition 2010

  • Kof's thick hand was wrapped around the king's spoke, his eyes staring at a point over the Perechon's dragon-headed prow.

    Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010

  • Its domes and minarets lay before them, glowing gold in the sunlight amid the hanging gardens, the pleasant palaces, the spired roofs of ancient temples; in the harbor, the purple-sailed ships of Wilmington plied the waves, and the dragon-headed prows of the barbarian kingdoms to the south dipped their oars in wrinkled waters while plesiosaurs turned capers at their sides.

    Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

  • Its domes and minarets lay before them, glowing gold in the sunlight amid the hanging gardens, the pleasant palaces, the spired roofs of ancient temples; in the harbor, the purple-sailed ships of Wilmington plied the waves, and the dragon-headed prows of the barbarian kingdoms to the south dipped their oars in wrinkled waters while plesiosaurs turned capers at their sides.

    Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

  • Its domes and minarets lay before them, glowing gold in the sunlight amid the hanging gardens, the pleasant palaces, the spired roofs of ancient temples; in the harbor, the purple-sailed ships of Wilmington plied the waves, and the dragon-headed prows of the barbarian kingdoms to the south dipped their oars in wrinkled waters while plesiosaurs turned capers at their sides.

    Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

  • Its domes and minarets lay before them, glowing gold in the sunlight amid the hanging gardens, the pleasant palaces, the spired roofs of ancient temples; in the harbor, the purple-sailed ships of Wilmington plied the waves, and the dragon-headed prows of the barbarian kingdoms to the south dipped their oars in wrinkled waters while plesiosaurs turned capers at their sides.

    Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

  • Note I'm not talking about dragon-headed chairs or anything like it, but instead displays and spaces made to look inviting to that audience.

    How do bookstores survive? 2006

  • Wrenches and spanners flashed among double-bladed paortings, wrist daggers, and dragon-headed throwing axes.

    Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

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