"Aliens" famously ends with Weaver's character, Ellen Ripley, battling the dragonish alien monster queen after strapping herself into a giant forklift-like machine whose enormous pincers she mechanically controls by maneuvering her own slender arms -- a technology that puts the puny human, finally, on a par with her gigantic, razor-toothed, acid-bleeding adversary. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Liz is taking some time out, so it is Big Red, Abe, the Professor and some grunts that get to go and play with monsters, and cover Chinese military types, as well as a village of dragonish people. ❋ Blue Tyson (2008)
She collected figurines and jigsaw puzzles of a dragonish fantasy nature - wizards and sorcerers also welcome. ❋ Ailbhe (2008)
Behind, the dragonish gnyarl still hemmed them in. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)
Between the absence of Hagrid and the presence of those dragonish horses, he had felt that his return to Hogwarts, so long anticipated, was full of unexpected surprises, like jarring notes in a familiar song. ❋ Rowling, J. K. (2003)
A pair of blank, white, shining eyes were growing larger through the gloom and a moment later the dragonish face, neck and then skeletal body of a great, black, winged horse emerged from the darkness. ❋ Rowling, J. K. (2003)
Their heads were dragonish, and their pupil-less eyes white and staring. ❋ Rowling, J. K. (2003)
I mentioned it one day after Fall and -- " She gave a helpless shrug. " -- everyone wanted to know their dragonish name. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1993)
The dragonish shriek from below proved me right, tailing away into an explosive hiss. ❋ Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- (1992)
Standing astride the peak of the roof, far above The Totems of the Beam and the dragonish gargoyles, as if given dominion over them, was a golden warrior at least sixty feet high. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (1991)
'That's a dragonish trick, yon fire-breathing,' said Hugi. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1953)
These were mostly of a dragonish or bat-like sort; Puddleglum did not know what any of them were. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1953)
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1952)
He was half-way through it before he realized what he was doing; for, you see, though his mind was the mind of Eustace, his tastes and his digestion were dragonish. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1952)
The thunder - figure that had poked a bow at him from the cab would come dragonish into the drawing-room where he waited. ❋ Unknown (1925)
QUOTATION: Sometime we see a cloud that s dragonish; ❋ Unknown (1919)
Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish 'damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black, ❋ Unknown (1918)
Plato, who liked definite ideas, would like my cardboard dragon; for though the creature has few other artistic merits he is at least dragonish. ❋ Unknown (1905)
