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Examples
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Conan had carried two silver coins, the last of his profit from the pelt of a dire-wolf he had slain.
Conan the Indomitable Perry, Steve 1989
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"A blade that has slain a dire-wolf will certainly serve to dispatch some mangy cur should it trouble us."
Conan the Indomitable Perry, Steve 1989
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Still conscious and still strong, he struck me as that animal strikes a dire-wolf.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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Heard by night, in a fastness of the mountains, they would have been more terrible than the howling of a dire-wolf, I think.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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Such a wail I set up then, in my need and desire, as would have scared away a dire-wolf. "
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