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  • The billiard-room at the Green Dragon was the constant resort of a certain set, most of whom, like our acquaintance Mr. Bambridge, were regarded as men of pleasure.

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • The billiard-room at the Green Dragon was the constant resort of

    Middlemarch 1871

  • The billiard-room at the Green Dragon was the constant resort of a certain set, most of whom, like our acquaintance Mr. Bambridge, were regarded as men of pleasure.

    Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

  • Green Dragon, which is now debt free, said it issued 12 million new shares to BlackRock to raise $75 million.

    IBTimes.com RSS Feed 2009

  • "My address will be `" Green Dragon, "Oxford, '" said the tutor.

    Roger Ingleton, Minor Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • Another recent article noted that the Cornwall Alliance, Focus on the Family and other conservative groups are now pushing Resisting the Green Dragon: Dominion, Not Death, a new book about environmentalists' "anti-human" and "anti-Christian" philosophies.

    Robert J. Cabin: Thank God Environmentalism Is Dead Robert J. Cabin 2011

  • Another recent article noted that the Cornwall Alliance, Focus on the Family and other conservative groups are now pushing Resisting the Green Dragon: Dominion, Not Death, a new book about environmentalists' "anti-human" and "anti-Christian" philosophies.

    Robert J. Cabin: Thank God Environmentalism Is Dead Robert J. Cabin 2011

  • For example, as detailed in a Huffington Post blog last December, several conservative Christian leaders recently joined with the Cornwall Alliance to promote Resisting The Green Dragon, a 12-part DVD series featuring prominent religious leaders bashing the environmental movement for "seducing and scaring" our children and "trumpeting exaggerations and myths."

    Robert J. Cabin: Thank God Environmentalism Is Dead Robert J. Cabin 2011

  • In the centre of the village is the Green Dragon, the hostelry where the highwayman Dick Turpin was unmasked and apprehended he was later tried and hanged at York.

    Country diary: East Yorkshire 2011

  • Yet despite such criticisms and the good work of more moderate, pro-environment Christian groups, until the larger environmental movement more effectively counters this kind of extreme anti-environmental theology, neither more tornadoes nor floods nor oil spills may awaken the Green Dragon and catalyze us into action again.

    Robert J. Cabin: Thank God Environmentalism Is Dead Robert J. Cabin 2011

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