Dragons perched on their ledges or idly circled overhead.

MIRROR Graham Masterton CHAPTER ONE Morris Nathan lifted his folded sunglasses up in front of his eyes like a lorgnette and watched in satisfaction as his fourth wife circled idly around the pool on her inflatable sunbed.

On cue, the dolphin surfaced and pushed her fin against the hand Theo idly circled as she trod water.

High up above them, the flamingos still idly circled, and the clouds sailed past them with all the dignity of old-time Spanish galleons leaving Cadiz.

Immediately three giffs curved away from those few idly circling the caves.

Robie was a touch nervous at the size of that head, but the eye nearest him, almost bigger than his sturdy little-boy body, was green and circling idly.