例文・使い方で印象づける「dire」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... Senora Desnoyers was so greatly impressed by these dire prophecies that she could not hide them from her family... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... It was a shrewd, sharp thrust aimed at the jury, and it reveals, I think, the alertness of the man's mind, his self-possession ever steadiest in moments of dire peril...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...Only direct necessity could drive Alexander Paulvitch to personalconflict; but it was indeed dire necessity which goaded him on toaction now...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
...One of their chiefs, the Lion-Claw, was very troublesome, sending back the presents which had been made him, and threatening dire vengeance if his demands were not complied with...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...Some of our old accounts of shipwrecked seamen, driven to the dire necessity of eating one another, insinuate that the impious food causes raging insanity...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
... But, poor Caroline, like myself, was at the mercy of the merciless Covey; nor did she escape the dire effects of her refusal...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...The Spanish name meanssuccor, and probably marks the placewhere some man or party in dire needwas rescued...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905」
...Panem et circenses: that was the Roman law in regard to the poor; a dire and perhaps a necessary evil wherever a landed aristocracy exists...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...There they came upon a scene of dire wrath...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
..."Worn out with age and dire disease, a cat, Friendly to all, savewicked mouse and rat, I'm sent at last to ford the Stygian lake, Andto the infernal coast a voyage make...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
...But for his own domestic "Tabby" hehas tolerance and a certain amount of affection; if another dog were toattack her, dire would be the warfare...
Various 「Dog Stories from the "Spectator"」
...The presence of this dire foe of Andrenaat this time, it will be seen in a succeeding chapter on the enemies ofthe bees, is quite significant...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...Buthear the same party on the running-down tack!—when either his ownimportance is not involved, or dire offence makes it worth his while 'tocut off his nose to spite his face...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...—Les iours ordinaires de laconuocation du Sabbat, ou pour mieux dire les nuicts, sont celles duMercredy venant au Ieudy, & du Vendredy venant au Samedy...
Margaret Alice Murray 「The Witch-cult in Western Europe」
...AntoineTornier dit, que lors qu'elle dansoit, vn mouton noir la tenoit par la mainauec ses pieds bien haireux, c'est à dire rudes & reuesches'...
Margaret Alice Murray 「The Witch-cult in Western Europe」
...Guivret takes his way back alone, while Erec resumed his road, in dire need of plaster wherewith to heal his wounds...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...Our onlytrouble in centuries is a dire perilwhich now threatens our people, andit is of this that I wish to talk to youmore at length...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930」
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