 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1880 - 890 pages
...palms of a tiger. On each side of the mouth are whiskers, and its head contains a bright pearl, its breath is sometimes changed into water and sometimes...fire, and its voice is like the jingling of copper pans.1 The dragon is allowed to be worn by Chinese noblemen or mandarins and vassals of the empire... | |
 | Harlan Page Beach - Missions - 1898 - 210 pages
...found in the fossil iguanodon their prototype. The only truly orthodox species, that of the sky, " has the head of a camel, the horns of a deer, eyes...and its voice is like the jingling of copper pans." He is all powerful and is associated in thought with the Emperor, who sits on the dragon throne, has... | |
 | Harlan Page Beach - Missions - 1901 - 224 pages
...found in the fossil iguanodon their prototype. The only truly orthodox species, that of the sky, " has the head of a camel, the horns of a deer, eyes...and its voice is like the jingling of copper pans." He is all powerful and is associated in thought with the Emperor, who sits on the dragon throne, has... | |
 | William Cosmo Monkhouse - Porcelain, Chinese - 1901 - 396 pages
...only authentic species, according to the Chinese. It has the head of a camel, the horns of a deer, the eyes of a rabbit, ears of a cow, neck of a snake,...copper pans. The dragon of the sea occasionally ascends in waterspouts, and is the ruler of all oceanic phenomena. The dragon is worshipped and feared by Chinese... | |
 | William Giuseppi Gulland - Porcelain - 1902 - 572 pages
...being taken as the imperial coat-of-arms, consequently imparts these ideas to his person and state. There are three dragons — the lung in the sky, the...classes towards it is probably a modified relic of the widespread serpent-worship of ancient times." Jacquemart, p. 28 : " Gigantic saurians, with four... | |
 | Harlan Page Beach - Missions - 1905 - 262 pages
...orthodox species, that of the sky, " has the head of a camel, the horns of a deer, eyes of a rabhit, ears of a cow, neck of a snake, belly of a frog, scales...and its voice is like the jingling of copper pans." He is all powerful and is associated in thought with the Emperor, who sits on the dragon throne, has... | |
 | William Giuseppe Gulland - Porcelain - 1911 - 566 pages
...being taken as the imperial coat-of-arms, consequently imparts these ideas to his person and state. There are three dragons — the lung in the sky, the...classes towards it is probably a modified relic of the widespread serpent-worship of ancient times." Jacquemart, p. 28 : " Gigantic saurians, with four... | |
 | William Giuseppi Gulland - Porcelain - 1911 - 568 pages
...belly of a frog, scales of a carp, claws of a hawk, and palm of a tiger. On each side of the niouth are whiskers, and its beard contains a bright pearl....classes towards it is probably a modified relic of the widespread serpent-worship of ancient times." Jacquemart, p. 28 : " Gigantic saurians, with four... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1917 - 442 pages
...palms of a tiger. On each side of the mouth are whiskers, and its head contains a bright pearl, its breath is sometimes changed into water and sometimes...fire, .and its voice is like the jingling of copper pans.1 . The dragon is allowed to be worn by Chinese noblemen or mandarins and vassals of the empire... | |
 | William Giuseppi Gulland - Porcelain - 1918 - 572 pages
...person and state. There are three dragons — the lung in the sky, the li in the sea, and the Jciau in the marshes. The first is the only authentic species,...classes towards it is probably a modified relic of the widespread serpent- worship of ancient times." Jacquemart, p. 28 : " Gigantic saurians, with four... | |
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The first is the only authentic species, according to the Chinese. It has the head of a camel, the horns of a deer, eyes of a rabbit, ears of a cow, neck of a snake, belly of a frog, scales of a carp. claws of a hawk, and palm of a tiger. On each side... 
