ellauri061.html on line 828: Balrogs are tall and menacing beings who can shroud themselves in fire, darkness, and shadow. They are armed with fiery whips "of many thongs", and occasionally used long swords. In Tolkien's later conception, they could not be readily vanquished—a certain status was required by the would-be hero. Only dragons rivalled their capacity for ferocity and destruction, and during the First Age of Middle-earth, they were among the most feared of Morgoth's forces.
ellauri172.html on line 594: Puisqu’elle s’était donnée à lui, elle pouvait bien se donner à un autre, et, ma foi ! tout le monde pouvait être cet autre-là ! En un temps fort court, au 8e dragons, on sut combien il y avait peu d’audace dans cette espérance. Pour tous ceux qui ont le flair de la femme, et qui en respirent la vraie odeur à travers tous les voiles blancs et parfumés de vertu dans lesquels elle s’entortille, la Rosalba fut reconnue tout de suite pour la plus corrompue des femmes corrompues, — dans le mal, une perfection!
ellauri483.html on line 76: People have already asked me if I had the current international situation in mind when I wrote the book. The answer is no. I wouldn't insult even rats by turning them into handy metaphors. It's just unfortunate that the current international situation (2001) is pretty much the same old dull, stupid international situation, in a world obsessed by the monsters it has made up, dragons that are hard to kill. We look around and see foreign policies that are little more than the taking of revenge for the revenge that was taken in revenge for the revenge last time. It's a path that leads only downwards, and still the world flocks along it. It makes you want to spit. The dinosaurs were thick as concrete, but they survived for 150 million years and it took a damn great asteroid to knock them out. I find myself wondering now if intelligence comes with its own built-in asteroid.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 327: Although she never felt particularly tough compared with the rest of her family - "It took me a long time to figure out that the youngest in a family of dragons is still a dragon from the point of view of those who find dragons alarming" - Atwood now recognises that "I was certainly very scary to people in my 20s; I think women with talent are scary."
xxx/ellauri139.html on line 778: For there were sleeping dragons all around, Huonostipa käy jonsei mökkiin muuta.
xxx/ellauri200.html on line 651: and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right Ja siitätettäis niillä lohikäärmeitä, sihen ois
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