Bel and the Dragon
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We learn from the book of Bel and the Dragon that in Babylon was kept a great, live serpent, which the people worshipped.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
Johnson: "When I was a boy I have read or heard Bel and the Dragon, Susanna, etc."
From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by Daubney, William Heaford
People used to call them Bel and the Dragon.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Such a long supper! but it must end sometime!—and then prayers, and then Dorcas had amused herself with Bel and the Dragon and Tobit awhile.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various
He shall have no more to do with Bel and the Dragon.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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