There was no possibility of taking a walk that day, for the dragons had arrived. ("Jane Eyre")

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, or emptied some dull opiate to the drains. One minute past, then the dragons arrived ..

[John Keats - Ode to A Dragon]

You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully.

A huge green fierce dragon bars the way!

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience of dragons.

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[Kant, Critique of Pure Reason]

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic dragon.

[The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka]