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Usage examples of "dires".
Not wanting to think about their encounter with the dires, but unable to make her thoughts quit rerunning the horror, Jane started when Sojourner said, his man voice soft, almost gentle, "I saw you first in the fire.
But if she couldn't question him about his past, she could, at least, question him about the dires and what he had said about them and winter ice.
The dires ran before mountain storms and were, always the first, and possibly the deadliest, harbingers of winter cold and ice.
But the fire was all that separated them from the night-prowling dires so there was no other course than the one she had taken.
It was the coughing that separated them, sent them back into the real world where smoke and flame and a new pack of howling dires had to be dealt with.
It halted his leap over the fire and into the tunnel to engage the dires in a death struggle, a long and bloody struggle designed to save Jane if not himself.
The dires howled louder, howled loud enough to reverberate inside the cave and he could see the gleam of one pair of eyes well within the tunnel.
She wasn't going to be left behind to battle winter, a trek out of the canyon, a pack of dires, and heaven alone knows what else just so he could go dashing off and play hero.
All she had worry about was how she was going to get there, how she was going to keep the dires away from her door until daylight drove them away.
It was not the best of news, but the dires were gone, running before the ice and cold that were coming fast on the heels of this small storm.