A Cadmean victory
A Cadmean victory has come to mean a victory in which the victor suffers as much as the loser.
The 'crownd' is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in the same sense as the dollar, and look with regret upon the gradual disappearance of the broad silver disc with the figure of 'St. Gaarge' conquering the dragon.
Red Sonja, she was a hellraiser before Buffy, Xena, and Ripley even existed. When so many heroines in comics were all hung up on romance and the bizarre gender politics of comics at the time, Sonja was out cutting off the heads of dragons and pirates.
At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.
There can be no dragon slayer in the absence of dragons.
Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.
I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.
Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!