* A common two-headed wyvern enemy in Final Fantasy XIII is named Amphisbaena.

A dragon-like creature with wings but only a single pair of legs is known as a wyvern.

Wessex is often symbolised by a wyvern or dragon.

A dragon-like creature with no front legs is known as a wyvern.

The wyvern is used for both Supporter ( heraldry ) | supporters in the arms of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.

A wyvern or wivern () is a legendary winged creature with a dragon's head, reptilian body, two legs ( sometimes none ), and a barbed tail.

The wyvern is found in heraldry.

The usual spelling wyvern ( older wivern too ) is not attested before the 17th century as ' winged two-footed dragon '.

The wyvern ( and its ' cousin ' the four-legged dragon ) is a frequent heraldic device on British coats of arms and flags, and a fairly popular commercial logo or mascot as well, especially in Wales and what was once the West Country Kingdom of Wessex, but also farther afield in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, as the rivers Wye and Severn run through Hereford and Worcester respectively.

Similarly, a wyvern is the crest of Newington College in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and is the symbol of the Trinity Residents ' Club in Perth, Western Australia.

A wyvern is also found on the crest of the Anglo-Chinese School which is located in Singapore and Jakarta.

The wyvern symbol was introduced in 1976 and is believed to incorporate Orient's links with the City of London ( the wyvern is the symbol of the Thames, it is believed to be the defender of the Thames ) and with the sea, through the old Orient Shipping Company.

One of the two smaller churches is a fine example of late Romanesque and the other is a plain 15th century structure with a carving of a wyvern on one of the windows.

Technically, this creature is an heraldic wyvern.

The wyvern is representative of the deadliness of the tank.

The wyvern on the badge provided the inspiration for the club mascot Theo who got his name from a shortening of the club nickname, The O's.

The company asserted that the " wyvern was the standard of the Kingdom of Mercia ", and that it was " a quartering in the town arms of Leicester ".

However, in 1897 the Railway Magazine noted that there appeared " to be no foundation that the wyvern was associated with the Kingdom of Mercia ".

A dragon, or wyvern, gules.

In the British Army the wyvern has been used to represent Wessex: The 43rd ( Wessex ) Infantry Division adopted a formation sign consisting of a gold wyvern on a black background, and both the Wessex Brigade and Wessex Regiments used a cap badge featuring the heraldic beast.

The Wessex Society have promoted the use of a flag, designed by William Crampton, which features an heraldic golden wyvern on a red background.

In the Inferno, the first part of Italian poet Dante's Divine Comedy epic, Geryon has become the Monster of Fraud, a winged beast with the face of an honest man, the paws of a lion, the body of a wyvern, and a poisonous sting at the tip of his tail.

Derived from Audley were the arms of Magdalene, including the motto Garde Ta Foy ( from Old French for " keep your faith "), and the wyvern as the crest.

However, upon reaching Amber, Corwin finds a desperate battle against wyvern riders from the Courts of Chaos.

A white ( argent ) wyvern formed the crest of the Borough of Leicester as recorded at the heraldic visitation of Leicestershire in 1619: A wyvern sans legs argent strewed with wounds gules, wings expanded ermine.

The term sans legs may not imply that the wyvern was " without legs ", rather that its legs are not depicted, being hidden or folded under.

The Kings of Aragon of the House of Barcelona since Peter IV used a wyvern as a crest on their helmets.

Ashley Riot faces a wyvern during the opening sequence.

One of the most frequent views of the value of literature is the education of sensibility that it is thought to provide.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

The most frequent excuse for the prevalence of unoriginals and tested imports is increasing production expense -- producers cannot afford to take chances.

and it is evidenced in the prayers offered, in the frequent religious allusions, and in the confirmation of points on religious grounds.

he further reasoned that frequent formulas in epic verse indicate oral composition, and assumed the slightly less likely corollary that oral epic is inclined towards the use of formulas.

Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal barrage from the most impressive corps of psychologists.

but after that, if thumb-sucking pressure is frequent, it will have an effect.

The one way to get around them -- short of knowing exactly what one wants and sticking to it -- is to frequent a single establishment until its wine waiter is persuaded that one is at least as interested in wine as in spending money.

The ideal storage temperature for long periods is about fifty-five degrees, with an allowable range of five degrees above or below this, provided there are no sudden or frequent changes.

A frequent pitfall in this sort of arrangement, experts warn, is a tendency to pay the wife more than her job is worth and to set aside an excessive amount for her as retirement income.

Fortunate for the music itself, it is not too frequent a visitor ; ;

And WWRL's colorful mobile unit, cruising predominately Negro neighborhoods, is a frequent reminder of that station's round-the-clock dedication to nonwhite interests.

The ecclesiastical leadership exercised by abbots despite their frequent lay status is proved by their attendance and votes at ecclesiastical councils.

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

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Horizontal transfer is more likely to happen in locations of frequent antibiotic use.

Other disorders are also due to recessive alleles, but because the gene locus is located on the X chromosome, so that males have only one copy ( that is, they are hemizygous ), they are more frequent in males than in females.

Canberra is notorious for hot, dry summers, and cold winters with occasional fog and frequent frosts.

This is suggested by the sharp and frequent change in dynamics from forte to piano.