There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms.

[…] they no land / Doomed to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.

The sexual instinct can hardly be changed by prescriptions; I doubt whether all laws against homosexual intercourse, even the most draconic, have ever been able to extinguish the peculiar desire of anybody born with homosexual tendencies.

In the first months after the October Revolution Lenin was already demanding "the most decisive, draconic measures to tighten up discipline."

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