The sword cannot be sheathed when a dragon comes within five miles of its bearer's presence.

The dragon, especially yellow or golden dragons with five claws on each foot, was a symbol for the emperor in many Chinese dynasties.

The first Ming Emperor copied the Yuan ruling and decreed that the dragon would be his emblem and that it would have five toes ( or claws ) The four-clawed dragon was typically for imperial nobility and certain high-ranking officials.

Lower-ranking officials had eight or five dragons on their robes, again covered with surcoats ; even the emperor himself wore his dragon robe with one of its nine dragons hidden from view.

The five fleurs-de-lis each had the enameled image of a saint on the central upright petal ( the front fleur-de-lis had an image of the Virgin and Child, while two of the other fleurs-de-lis had images of St George and the dragon ) as well as precious stones on the two curved side petals, while the five crosses and the arches were ornamented only with precious stones.

These five helped Cadmus to found the city of Thebes, but Cadmus was forced to be a slave to Ares for one year to atone for killing the dragon.

It considers the five celestial animals ( phoenix, green dragon, white tiger, black turtle, and the yellow snake ), the yin-yang concept and the traditional five elements ( Wu Xing: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water ).

When Túrin had dwelt in Nargothrond for five years, Morgoth sent a great host of Orcs led by the dragon Glaurung against Nargothrond, and Túrin encouraged Orodreth to send his forces to fight them in the open.

Creation has five Elemental Poles, the five powerful elementally charged hubs of Creation's dragon line network.

Once a dragon is fed five of these, it turns into a Behemoth.

Each dragon had spawned five adolescent dragons and recruited a powerful army.

Continuing folding the strip in half to the right to create further iterations of the Heighway dragon ( in practice, the strip becomes too thick to fold sharply after four or five iterations ).

Symbols representing strength are among the most common, including the khas ( swastika ) and four powerful beasts ( lion, tiger, garuda and dragon ), as well as stylized representations of the five elements ( fire, water, earth, metal, and wood ), considered to be the fundamental, unchanging elements of the cosmos.

The former five dragon types were given as evil-aligned, while the latter five dragon types were given as good-aligned.

Soul is believed to be indestructible. None of the five elements can harm or influence it. Hinduism through Garuda Purana also describes in detail various types of " Narkas " or Hells where a person after death is punished for his bad Karmas and dealt with accordingly.

* Working from Wernicke's model of aphasia, Ludwig Lichtheim proposed five other types of aphasia, but these were not tested against real patients until modern imaging made more in-depth studies available.

The other five types of aphasia in the localizationist model are:

The first book was mainly composed by 1512 / 13 and completed by 1523, showing five differently constructed types of both male and female figures, all parts of the body expressed in fractions of the total height.

There are five types of bones in the human body: long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid.

The most commonly used form of the Köppen classification has five primary types labeled A through E. These primary types are A, tropical ; B, dry ; C, mild mid-latitude ; D, cold mid-latitude ; and E, polar.

The classification identifies five basic types:

There are five types of common features: commitment to perform, ability to perform, activities performed, measurement and analysis, and verifying implementation.

For each maturity level there are five checklist types:

By contrast, if the same historian had made the same claim five times in five different places ( and no other types of evidence were available ), the claim is much weaker because it originates from a single source.

Animals, specifically humans, have five different types of tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.

Other variants include chair fencing, one-hit épée ( one of the five events which constitute modern pentathlon ) and the various types of non-Olympic competitive fencing.

The outdated gnutella version 0. 4 network protocol employs five different packet types, namely

In Japan, the five types of Courts are present – Supreme Court, High Court, District Court, Family Court and Summary Court.

The three to five types of killer whales may be distinct enough to be considered different races, subspecies, or possibly even species.

According to Agassiz, the different races were created in different provinces, each race was indigenous to the province it was created in, he cited evidence from Egyptian monuments to prove that fixity of racial types had existed for at least five millennia.

The inner mitochondrial membrane contains proteins with five types of functions:

There are five types of message: Channel Voice, Channel Mode, System Common, System Real-Time, and System Exclusive.

There are five main types of marine mammals.

Chametz ( חמץ, " leavening ") is made from one of five types of grains combined with water and left to stand for more than eighteen minutes.

In Buddhist tradition the process occurs across five or six realms of existence, including the human, any kind of animal and several types of supernatural being.

Income maintenance is based in a combination of five main types of program:

Szechuan food is divided into five different types: sumptuous banquet, ordinary banquet, popularised food, household-style food, and food snacks.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

During the next five years the leaders of the Fair Deal reluctantly backed down from the optimistic expectations of the New Deal.

We would all meet at ten o'clock at the Kehl bridge, five miles from Strasbourg, and march triumphantly across into Germany.

Office workers frequently go out there to lunch and swim during the siesta period, which, during the summer, lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when shops and offices are again open for business.

To enter it, you go down five or six steps from the road.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

The front of their column had already passed us, when another officer came riding down the side of the road, not five paces from where we were.

Four or five of the cousins from East Texas were about his age, so naturally they ran around together.

Certain pianistic traits are common to all five Schnabelian renditions, most notably the `` Schnabel trill '' ( which differs from the conventional trill in that the two notes are struck simultaneously ).

Designers and manufacturers have produced models for purchasers who run the gamut from a nautical version of the elderly Pasadena lady who never drove more than five miles an hour on her once-a-month ride around the block, to the sportiest boatman who insists on all the dash, color, flair and speed possible to encompass in a single boat.

Terms range from one to five years and the interest rates and down payments run about the same as for automobiles.

Mills secured Barco's photograph from the gentleman in charge, rushed to the Hollywood police station to report the theft, and less than five minutes later, detectives with his picture in hand were on the trail of Cal Barco.

Hans Schweizer had one that increased from 19-1/2 inches to 5 feet 3 inches in five years, and J. J. Quelch records a growth of from less than 4 feet to nearly 10 in about six years.

Second, the upper portion permits comparison of maturity levels of an equal number of growth centers from the long, short, and round bones of the five regions.

A trained marksman shooting five rounds at a target, all under practically the same conditions, may hit the bull's-eye from 0 to 5 times.

Yet after long and earnest discussion Stalin accepted the Curzon Line and even agreed voluntarily that there should be digressions from that line of five to eight kilometers in favor of Poland in some regions.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

Thus one line in five from The Iliad and The Odyssey is to be found somewhere else in the two poems.

I would tell them I got a letter from home stating that five of my Negroes had runaway and ten of Pappy's.

The wearying trek stretched into the afternoon -- from newspaper plant to insurance office to her house and back to the newspaper, where he found her at five o'clock.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

The issue which may make it necessary to have a session is the highly sensitive problem of cutting the state's congressional districts from six to five to eliminate one congressional seat.

Rumors flew from lip to lip that Fidel Castro was on his way to Havana, coming from the mountains where he had fought Batista for five years.