But even seventy-two more mature dragons will be a help.

Early in Dragongirl, the entire force of centrally located Telgar Weyr is lost to a sudden disaster - all its mature dragons and dragonriders, about 300 pairs.

It is amazing how small even a huge cavern can be when filled with a mature dragon and several growing young.

The hum of the mature dragons was augmented by the crooning trill of the hatchlings and the excited exclamations of the newly chosen riders and their happy relatives in the tiers.

If they are mature dragons, we flee To, hoping they will become too old to fly well.

And we must have many more mature dragons ready to fight at Telgar in three days time.

The hum of the mature dragons was joined by the crooning trill of hatchings and the excited exclamations from the newly chosen riders.

He was a mature dragon and had seen a great many things, but this . . . these humans were almost not credible.