A little more than ten years after we had all arrived in Key West, saved the universe from annihilation, and settled back to have us some serious fun, bad ugliness and death came into my bar. And then the dragons arrived. - Callahan's Con by Spider Robinson
I suppose I should've known there was more to you than the insipid whore you present yourself to be." Instead of being insulted, Ian smiled almost flirtatiously. "Oh, I am all the whore you can imagine and more, but I do have other talents. Few people see them, although you and your lovely wife are about to. And then the dragons arrived. -Jeaniene Frost, Into the Fire (Night Prince)
When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. For that was the day I barely survived When they opened the door And the Dragons arrived - Now We are Six - A A Milne
"The object of this production I shall consider thoroughly attained, if I and my artistic comrades, the actual performers, shall within these four evenings succeed in artistically conveying my purpose to the true Emotional (not the Critical) Understanding of spectators who shall have gathered together expressly to learn it." - Richard Wagner on The Ring Cycle. Fortunately, the dragons arrived.
"'God's in his heaven, all’s right with the world,' whispered Anne softly." And then ... the dragons arrived. - (Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage, Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls Of heroes into Hades' dark, And left their bodies to rot as feasts For dogs and birds, as Zeus' will was done. Begin with the clash between Agamemnon— The Greek warlord—and the dragons.
riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and endragons Hidden text(the original is environs)
Speak, memory— Of the cunning hero, The wanderer, blown off course time and again After he plundered Troy's sacred heights. Speak Of all the cities he saw, the minds he grasped, The suffering deep in his heart at sea As he struggled to survive and bring his men home But could not save them, hard as he tried— The fools—destroyed by their own recklessness When they ate the oxen of Hyperion the Sun, And that god's dragons snuffed out their day of return.
There were three old gypsies came to our hall door They came brave and boldly-o The one sang high and the other sang low The other sang a raggle taggle gypsy-o.
It was upstairs downstairs the lady went She put on her suit of leather-o Then there came a cry from the open door “Oh lord - here now stand three dragons-o!” [Trad.]
I'll tell you a tale - now draw near, We were down at the pub with a beer, When, such a great same, It all burst into flame. Oh bugger, the dragons were here.