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...ike with the increasingly lengthy sentences, stretched to the breaking point, that make up its narrative. Through a chain of events, beginning with a rodent eating some grain and culminating in a festive wedding, children learn that playing with grammar can be fun! You can read along with this recording by linking to the facsimile edition of an 1880 publication at the <a=h...

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...e leaned his head on an extended arm, supported by the cage's frame, perusing a frightened rodent, whose nostrils twitched with desperation. I call... ...trokes a lumpy throat. His body petrified, only his hands are squirming on the table, like rodents in a maze. Eli eyes his discomfiture, amused. "...

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...nning of the large intestine. Many types of animals have it, including rabbits and rodents. It contains gut associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) invol...

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...ulation diminished, their contribution to balancing the deer, wild boar, and rodent populations became evident. As it turned out, unlike people, wh...

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...l, go in drains. Get bit, hurt lots." Rat imitated the biting action of a rodent. "Is this your brother," Roxanne asked, "or just a friend?" "Mine, h... ...f the channel with a rat scurrying past. "They’re big, aye," Brendan said. Rodents didn't bother him. "Damn genetics," Callam mumbled, staying close b...

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.... By the time he reached the trailhead his pants were stiff with acrid sap. Rodent trails drew haphazard lines across the chalky ground. WindTamer e... ... Covenant. Instead they spoke of chicks and bunnies, the latest harvest of rodents by the farm cats, the fantasies attending hot summer days while o...

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...to feed the mutt, ample snooping time. When he sees this is nothing but a rodent infested, rotting dump; he’ll shut the fuck up and get on with the ... ...ably say I have seen everything now. Ali kneels down to converse with the rodent. “What’s happening?” “Two people bodies,” Irving squeaks. “Doing a s... ...” “Two people bodies,” Irving squeaks. “Doing a sneaky, alert, alert!” The rodent’s little arms express panic stations. “Did you just…” I’m gob smack... ...give you a message and if you will excuse me; Rachael awaits.” The little rodent zips off. 152 “The Savoy!” I’m repulsed by the thought. “The bloody...

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...” For a long moment, she thought he wouldn’t answer her. “They multiply like rodents,” he said finally, “and are as numerous as the vermin on the dwar... ...ay. The place wasn’t fit for rats, although there seemed to be plenty of the rodents scampering about. Exhaustion had forced the etain’daman to seek ...

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... 170 Bozo and the Storyteller God, Ganesh, rides upon a rat. So even the rodents are sacred.’ Buntee gazed into the eyes of Raj as though he saw a ...

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... are kept in subjection, and the humble-bees, whose nests are destroyed by the rodents, are allowed to increase; and humble-bees alone, from the extre...

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...ospectus, by means of which they catch in their rat- trap the departmental rodent commonly called subscriber, sometimes stockholder, occasionally corr...

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...ys. If you can get more, the surplus will be welcome. Keep the interesting rodents without food; for it is essential that the delightful little beasts... ...drunk,—and do it cleverly,—so as to get him far away from the scene of the Rodents’ Orgy.” “You don’t say anything about the Parisians?” questioned Go...

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...shapen corpse. The brute lay on its side, with its body slightly bent. Its rodent teeth over- hanging its receding lower jaw gave its face a look of c...

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...r and a monkey (both of which had died on their way to Soulanges), all the rodents of the department, mice and field-mice and dormice, rats, musk- rat...

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...he banker of fishwives, the money-lender of costermongers, was the gnawing rodent of the whole faubourg. “Well,” said Cerizet as Dutocq opened his doo...

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...as Mr. Waterhouse and others have remarked, our carnivorous, ruminant, and rodent mammals, could successfully compete with these well-pronounced order... ...at all and had stuck to the wreck. The eyes of moles and of some burrowing rodents are rudimentary in size, and in some cases are quite covered up by ... ...use, but aided perhaps by natural selection. In South America, a burrowing rodent, the tuco-tuco, or Ctenomys, is even more subterranean in its habits... ... to many parts of the world, and now have a far wider range than any other rodent, living free under the cold climate of Faroe in the north 132 On th... ...ral conditions. Let the climate and vegetation change, let other competing rodents or new beasts of prey immigrate, or old ones become modified, and a... ... same habits as our hares and rab- bits and belonging to the same order of Rodents, but they plainly display an American type of structure. We ascend ... ...rs, and we do not find the beaver or musk-rat, but the coypu and capybara, rodents of the Ameri- can type. Innumerable other instances could be given.... ... low- lands;—thus we have in South America, Alpine hum- ming-birds, Alpine rodents, Alpine plants, &c., all of strictly American forms, and it is obvi... ...ases is general and not special: thus, according to Mr. Waterhouse, of all Rodents, the bizcacha is most nearly related to Marsupials; but in the poin...

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... the rank carcasses of the fish-eating birds in the same manner. The order Rodentia is here very numerous in spe- cies: of mice alone I obtained no le... ...il, was three feet two inches; and its girth three feet eight. These great Rodents occasionally frequent the islands in the mouth of the Plata, where ... ... of soda, and hence, of course, was without water. Yet many of the smaller rodents man- aged to exist even here, and the tucutuco was mak- ing its odd... ... correct, it is, if not a solitary instance, at least very nearly so, of a rodent animal being common to North and South America.” 146 The V oyage of... ...r as she is in some respects, can howeve boast of a greater stock of small rodents* than perhaps an other country in the world. Several species of mic... ...same circumstance has been mentioned as sometimes occurring with the great rodent, the Capybara. A small sea-otter is very numerous; this animal does ... ...r was a small fox: I suppose this animal preys on the mice and other small rodents, which, as long as there is the least vegetation, sub- sist in cons...