Sentences with phrase «drought at their whim»

Dragon - kings in Chinese mythology — four of them in coral castles guarded by crab generals and shrimp soldiers — bring us floods and droughts at their whim.

Dragon - kings are Chinese mythological creatures — four of them in the north, south, east and west of the South China Sea — who live in coral castles guarded by crab generals and shrimp soldiers — and who inflict on us floods and droughts at their whim.