Recoils, with "away"

Usage examples of shies.

So, as I said, Joanna went into the forest to study the Shies, though I suspected she went more because she liked the Shies than because she imagined that we could make profitable use of them.

At any rate, I considered the Shies to be pretty useless, and almost everyone shared my view.

A shaggy little Shy triggers that same reflex, and Shies were also appealing because of their habit of mimicking speech.

Like Shies, they often moved faster than the eye could follow, and almost all of us had bad memories of real dog packs in the crumbling cities of Earth.

The most intelligent animals encountered so far in human space travel were merely what we had imagined Shies were, namely, about as smart as dogs.

Since most of us still had a lot of work to do just trying to determine how we could earn the right to stay on this planet, the talking Shies were soon no big deal to anyone but Joanna, who stayed in the field with them more and more and left me more and more alone.

The other day I saw a lightning dog jump over one of the Shies I talk to in order to chase a Shy from the other group.

I get the strangest feeling when I talk to some of my Shies, that they have submerged intelligence, powers of thought that are something like ours, only sleeping.

I remember what Joanna had said on the domewood about the two kinds of Shies, the ferals and the talkers.

I wish he could learn a more elaborate vocabulary, but Shies top out at about a hundred words.

And the mountain protected certain Shies from predators, did everything necessary to keep them safe and happy.

The feral Shies were like spare parts, with lightning dogs to keep their population in check.

And these intelligent beings projected themselves into the Shies as a respite from ordinary existence.