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...Columbia bicycle prize cup offered by the Pope Manufacturing Company, to be competed for in amateur twenty-mile bicycle races, is in the form of a solid silver horn, resting at one part of it on a bronze pedestal and steadied by two dragon's legs, the whole standing about fifteen inches high. The cup is in the general style of the old Scandinavian (and Celtic) drinking horns of the eighth and ninth centuries. The horn is about four inches in diameter at the largest part, gracefully shaped, the ornamentation being of frosted, smooth-polished, oxidized, and hammered surfaces, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/24/1883 | See Source »

...vedf rom." "All hope abandon, ye who enter here," he might have said, had he been a member of the Dante Society. Within the outer court of this castle was another flight of stone steps, winding up to a door marked 5, presumably in reference to the five dragons within, who were very terrible beings, as little Henry soon found out. The first of these dragons was Apex, the greatest and most terrible of all, for he had the power of turning all who displeased him into ice. He dwelt in the innermost secret chamber of the castle. The second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STORY OF LITTLE HENRY. | 11/11/1881 | See Source »

GLOBE THEATRE. - 8 P.M., Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2. Rice's Surprise Party will give "Revels" until further notice. "Revels" is very amusing; it is splendidly set, the costumes are gorgeous, and the nonsensical acting could not be better done. The turtle and the dragon are very successful. April 19, Miss Neilson returns for one week only. April 19, 20, 21, 24, "Measure for Measure"; 21st Matinee, "Twelfth Night"; 22d, 24th, Matinee, "As You Like It"; 23d, " Cymbeline." May 10, Maurice Grau's French Opera Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

Comes humming-bird and dragon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LOVER'S FRIEND. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

...side sat the dragon mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LADY OF LYONS. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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