Careful Words

dragon (n.)

And as an ev'ning dragon came,

Assailant on the perched roosts

And nests in order rang'd

Of tame villatic fowl.

John Milton (1608-1674): Samson Agonistes. Line 1692.

Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since

Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.