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c1475 Gregory's Chron. in J. Gairdner Hist. Coll. Citizen London (1876) 63 (MED) Ande the same tyme were sene in the ayre fyre dragons.

1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 3 In the ayre was sene fyere draggons and sprettes flyenge.

1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xxii. 142 The assembly should tremble, to see the deuill whirle about in the similitude of a snake, as a fire-dragon spoutes, & whirles in the ayre.

1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. v. 349 This Kind of Meteors hath been distributed by the Ancient Meteorologist into several Species with the Names of Fiery Darts and Spears, of Flying Lances, Fire Dragons, Burning Beams, Pyramidal Pillars, and the like, as if they really were of determinate Forms.

1873 Aldine 5 19/3 Blazed with the dazzling image of the fire-dragon.

1979 N.Y. Times 4 July a2 China has successfully tested a ballistic missile..[that] ‘soared into the sky like a fire dragon’.

1991 J. Chang Wild Swans (1993) xxii. 534 In the evenings, the serpentine curve of some distant mountains burned like a dramatic fire dragon silhouetted against the dark sky.