"Draco" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... planetary nebulae. They can only be described as globes of glowing bluish-coloured gas, often small enough to be mistaken for a star when viewed through a telescope. One of the most remarkable of these objects lies in the constellation Draco, and can be found half-way between the Pole Star and the star g Draconis. Some of the more recently discovered planetary nebulae are extremely small, and they have indeed only been distinguished from small stars by the spectroscope. It is also to be noticed ...
— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball
... Draco was an Athenian legislator, who codified the laws of his city in 621 B.C. The penalty for every offense was death, and the laws were, therefore, said to be written ...
— Selections From Poe • J. Montgomery Gambrill
... But, on the other hand, we seem to hurry them off the stage of life, by means of a code, which annexes death to two hundred different offences, as if we had allowed our laws to be written by the bloody pen of the pagan Draco. And it seems remarkable, that this system should be persevered in, when we consider that death, as far as the experiment has been made in our own country, has little or no effect as a punishment for crimes. Forgery, and ...
— A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume I (of 3) • Thomas Clarkson
... fremunt venti, Fluctus surgunt turbulenti; Navis currit, sed currenti Tot occurrunt obvia! Hic sirenes voluptatis, Draco, canes cum piratis, Mortem pene desperatis ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams
... you here present, and several others of the Queen's learned counsel, grievously inveigh against the cruel and bloody laws of Henry VIII., and some laws made in the late King's time? Some termed them Draco's laws, which were written in blood; others said they were more intolerable than any laws made by Dionysius or any other tyrant. In a word, as many men, so many bitter names and terms those laws.... ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
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