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Usage examples of dasher.

The back porch was cool with latticed shadows and there cousin Lymon sat turning the ice-cream freezer -- often he unpacked the salt and ice and removed the dasher to lick a bit and see how the work was coming on.

Captain Nutter bought me a little two-wheeled cart, which she drew quite nicely, after kicking out the dasher and breaking the shafts once or twice.

Meanwhile, Metra City will go halves with its new hero, the daring Dasher.

I suppose the most striking, au fait de beaute, as Mama would say, was the redheaded dasher, with the quiz of a brother, but, for my part, I prefer Miss Chartley's style—and her parents!

Not striking au fait de beaute, and too much of a Long Meg for his taste, but a distinguished-looking woman: nothing of the dasher about her!

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.