draconically

Example Sentences

• "Selenth, being the most prominent copper dragon in the Alliance, had a slightly draconically uncharacteristic ego about him, which showed from time to time and was usually brought back to measure by one of the Capital Wing dragons."
• "Dragons were hierarchical. The race ran on blood and lineage, and everything about family background mattered. Iampaatar was at the top of the food chain, draconically speaking."
• "Sulla breathed heavily and roared draconically. His mouth opened wide, and boiling water and steam rushed from his throat."
• "They were alſo in their judiciall Courts equally tyrannous; the one in the Chancerie, the other in the High Commiſſion: both of them at the Councell boord, and in the Starre-chamber alike Draconically ſupercilious."
• "Whereas three Italians, on two different occasions, have attempted the life of the Emperor [Napoleon III], therefore he revenges himself on the French and English—by crippling still more Draconically the few liberties left to the former, and by attempting to suppress the constitutional privileges that are dear to the latter."
• "But Mr. [Ichabod Charles] Wright has to make good his title against [William] Cowper; and no one that knows Cowper, a true poet, manly and tender, graceful and vigorous, in his translation no less than in his original works, will doubt that the task is likely to be a hard one. Professor [Matthew] Arnold, a sufficiently competent judge, has already pronounced that Mr. Wright has failed—that he simply reproduces Cowper’s manner, and so has, as it is somewhat Draconically expressed, ‘no right to exist.’"