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parrah

Axis \Ax"is\, n. [L.] (Zo["o]l.) The spotted deer ( Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).

Usage examples of "parrah".

Sam had wanted Parrah along, he would have taken her with him, Haiger was sure.

Several heads turned involuntarily, and Parrah, telepathically sensitive even through her own distress, felt a psychic shiver go through the chamber, a subtle discomfort that was not hampered by the rich furs and fine fabrics that surrounded the councillors with luxury.

Whatever had concerned Parrah would have to wait, as he was facing a much more immediate threat right where he was, a threat not only to his family but to the entire planet.

He hoped fiercely that Parrah and her companions would be alert and ready to defend themselves when he and Flame arrived.

Prauncer dialect and to comprehend that Parrah was giving no outward sign of her actual reasons for coming.

Anglo-Spanish grammar that he thought Parrah could get by if Flame kept her sentences simple.

The computer probably believed Parrah did not speak polyglot, and letting it learn otherwise might well be a serious tactical error.

This was obvious to Turner, while Parrah trusted her husband enough to accept his command without fully understanding its reasons.

He wanted very much to get a clear explanation of just what the Council wanted the ship for, and why they had sent Parrah, and why she had agreed to come, and any number of other thingsbut the computer was listening, and Flame might be as well, and they wanted an immediate resolution.

Flame directly to the site and let her wait for him there, in which case Parrah might not be able to get in to teach anyone anything.

He was still far more concerned with what Parrah had meant about keeping the ship intact.

SKIES WERE STILL GRAY BUT NO LONGER PARTICULARY dark or threatening when Parrah rode into Killalah.

Killalah, Parrah had left her horse at the public house that had been her home for the past three days.

The distance between the two places was the better part of a kilometer, but Parrah wanted her horse and the other belongings she had left in her room.

The ship slipped sideways, as if sliding from an invisible surface that had been tilted beneath it, and a roaring, something like a waterfall but not really like any sound Parrah had ever heard before, reached her.