What is "fire-breathing"

Usage examples of "fire-breathing".

Chimera was a flying centaur in Iobates's service, not a fire-breathing dragon in Amisidoros's, and recommended withdrawal from the Carian alliance, as did the Solymians -- Amisidoros, it turns out, knew nothing at all of the treble beast alleged to be his house pet and secret weapon.

And in the Papyrus of Ani--or Book of the Dead--we read of the fire-breathing dragon Apop, to whom the wicked were thrown.

I saw Mongol warriors spitting carnosaurs on their lances, brown-skinned men in stained leathers and steel helmets, riding tough little Gobi ponies, who would give rise in later generations to splendid tales of knights in shining armor slaying fire-breathing dragons to save enchanted princesses.

When he had deciphered the fatal message from his son-in-law, the king's first step was to order Bellerophon to kill the Chimera," a fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.

Some, like the Lambton Worm, lacking Wings and a fire-breathing Capacity, may indeed be of a distinct Species.

Five minutes of 155-mm fire and a remorseless advance by the Bradleys, spitting fire from their chain guns and through the firing ports for the mounted infantry inside, made them look like fire-breathing dragons, and these dragons were not a sign of good luck for the Chinese soldiers.

The thought of Impressing a dragon, of becoming telepathically linked with one of Pern's great fire-breathing defenders, was the secret wish of every child on Pern.

The fire-breathing hologram danced above the open box as Cally gasped at the contents.

Kitti Ping, famed Eridani Adept, who had saved Cetus III from the ravages of the Nathi War was also Pern’s savior with the creation of the great, fire-breathing, telepathic dragons.

He did not particularly like stool pigeons, but he would now have to check out the fire-breathing Baptist, Walter Drake, as well.