The utterer of the prayer asks for the most horrible things possible--"tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore
A dragon is a symbol of power.
Adjective: Black cats, although a superstition, are seen as bad luck.
Interrogative: What's your favorite breed of cat?
Adverb: Swiftly she ran towards the station, hoping that she wouldn't miss the train.
Phrase: To get to the station, she had to run as fast as she could.
Participle: Smiling, she set the boy down and watched him run out of the office.
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I’m sorry if my answer isn’t very helpful but nobody can answer this question without knowing what book it’s from.