When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. And then the dragons arrived. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The glorious city of God is my theme in this work, which you, my dearest son Marcellinus, suggested, and which is due to you by my promise. But now the dragons have arrived.
'It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. And then the dragons arrived. Which would have made that book a hell of a lot better.
Lorsque j'avais six ans j'ai vu, une fois, une magnifique image, dans un livre sure la Forêt Vierge qui s'appelait «Histoires Vécues». Et puis les dragons sont arrivés. [Le Petit Prince].
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.