Plant of the Iris family

Usage examples of orris.

And now, looking down on the remains of this bizarre and deadly bird that had found its way to a small town along the Moriandral, Orris began to fathom what Crob must have felt that day.

Javan and Rhys Michael serving Archbishop Orris at the altar while Alroy led the offertory procession, presenting the bread and wine to be consecrated.

She was large, formidable, and matronly at this stage of her youthening, and poor Orris seemed a collection of sticks beside her.

Kayle brought their drinks before the Owl-Master could respond, and, after she departed, Baden, Trahn, and Orris embarked on a lengthy, speculative discussion of the various possible contenders for the position.

Jaryd soon noticed, however, that Baden and Trahn appeared every bit as frustrated as Orris with the course of the debate.

Orris shot to his feet, glaring at Baden, a single, rigid finger leveled at the Owl-Master accusingly.

He had to find a way to end this, soon, before he had to fight Orris, Baden, and Trahn as well.

He could not honestly say that he considered Orris a friend, at least not in the way that Baden was a friend, or Jaryd.

Orris would not be able to convince anyone of his own innocence, not with Baden against him.

Grove had seemed entirely plausible, and Baden had found no reason to doubt that Orris had betrayed the Order and the land.

Then another sorrow, deeper, more frightening: Orris, whose guilt Baden had already accepted, was probably dead, murdered, quite possibly, by the true renegade, who expected to be chosen as Owl-Sage in less than a fortnight.

Indeed, if Sartol had murdered the sage and the first and defeated Orris, all in the span of a few moments, the Owl-Master would probably be too powerful for Baden as well.

And despite his hopes to the contrary, Baden had to recognize the probability that all those who witnessed the murders, including not just Orris but also Jaryd and Alayna, had died three nights ago.

The lights ahead of him suddenly stopped moving and grew dimmer, and Orris could tell from the way the glowing cerylls suddenly arced downward that Baden and Sartol had dismounted.

Or, he could rid himself of Baden on the plain, justify it as self-defense, and accuse the dead Owl-Master of collaborating with the traitor Orris.