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red-golden dragon, fast asleep; a thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of
smoke, but his fires were low in slumber. Beneath him, under all his limbs and huge
coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay
countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and
silver red-stained in the ruddy light. "The
Hobbit" |
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