100-meter runners, e.g.

Usage examples of dashers.

Frantically, he scrabbled for the weapon, but the first of the dashers hit the net head-on and their momentum rocked the coracle.

And when they floated, they could only encourage dashers and other predators to new heights of aggression.

Even though dashers preferred warm-blooded meat, they'd go for anything that moved when they were hungry.

As the coracle neared the clump, Twisp counted seven adults and a tighter cluster of young dashers in the center of the group.

Up close now he could see how dashers had adapted so quickly to water.

Legend said dashers once had feared the water, that the hollow hairs insulated them then against cold nights and oven-hot days among the desert rocks.

Most dashers had shed the hood in the sea, becoming sleek killing machines with saber fangs and those knife-sharp claws, almost fifteen centimeters long on the bigger animals.

He knew this fear of dashers was foolishness, something they'd laugh about someday .

There came the unmistakable splash of something stiffening in the water close behind, then the frenzied whines and chuckles of dashers feeding.

At the second shot, the dashers erupted in a frantic cacophony of yelps and screeches.

He recalled the odd stories out of human history on Pandora -- dashers talking with human voices, a fully sentient kelp speaking to the minds of those who touched it.

They began to feel almost invulnerable to dashers -- any variety, green or black.

Abruptly, kelp stalks as thick as a man's waist lifted from the sea, whipped the gore to a foam and drove the dashers from their feed.

A hunt of dashers, coming to the smell of blood, was whipped back by kelp fronds.

Frantically, he scrabbled for the weapon, but the first of the dashers hit the net head-on and their momentum rocked the coracle.