There was a swarm of summer insects flitting through the air in search of the food promised by the flower odors of the fatal garden. |
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However I did log a woodchat shrike, numerous barn and red-rumped swallows, a veritable swarm of common swifts, and a common buzzard. |
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Digital noise reduction causes people's faces and clothes to crawl, as though they were covered by a swarm of small insects. |
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Guitars weep and raspy throats belt out blues from their guts as people from all walks of life swarm the tiny dancefloor. |
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But currently at Hanauma Bay, the silvery aholehole swarm in the shallows all day, darting around human legs to catch free food. |
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The rats then swarm onto and devour any lamed, limping brontosaurus that they come across. |
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A swarm of dark elves jumped down from the trees and fell upon the humans, slaying them without mercy for harming one of their companions. |
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A crowd of Frenchmen started to swarm across, as the ships locked in deadly combat, but they were shot down. |
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Upon denial of her promotion, she leaves the University in a swarm of anger. |
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From schools of fish to a swarm of ants, animals exhibit extraordinary collective behaviour. |
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At this point the leading ants panic and backtrack to the safety of the swarm. |
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Not a single one of the tens of thousands of drunks that swarm round the station at night had even bothered to let the tyres down. |
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Poorly cured skins of some darkly furred animal clothed it, adding to its emanating body odor, which attracted a small swarm of flies. |
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Conspiracy is unnecessary when ideology hungers for power and its many adherents swarm of their own accord to the same pot of honey. |
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This year Greg is endeavoring to add to his apiary by catching a wild swarm. |
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As a swarm of roadies toiled about with their pre-show set-up, a revolutionary thought crossed my mind. |
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In the dark oil Rats, the rodents swarm in a mass around the corner of a windowless red-brick building, perhaps a factory. |
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Phase change causes the locusts to swarm over vegetation, behavior that has wreaked havoc on crops in Africa and the Middle East for centuries. |
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The party ran out of the palace and looked up in the sky and saw a swarm of what looked like lava bees holding lava bombs. |
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We also need to figure out how we can become cohesive units within our own party rather than a disoraganized swarm of attack dogs. |
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You stand in the way of a swarm of bats and you can expect to get horsewhipped to tarnation, boy! |
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Looking tattily elegant, and hoping I'll be safe from stings, I climb a ladder and examine the swarm. |
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But in fact, it makes it almost impossible to see which player is marking the ball, as other players swarm around you. |
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Last year we just had a few little menacers indoors in May, then the big swarm in July, when all the wingers strut their stuff. |
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During lunchtime, tourists and snorkellers swarm the beach to watch the baby blacktips, sergeant majors and butterflyfish. |
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Any bomber that was damaged and fell out of formation was immediately set upon by a swarm of fighters. |
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Only an attack by a voracious swarm of midges then spoilt a leisurely paddle under a warm, summer sun on a perfect, windless day. |
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Hundreds of thousands of East Berliners swarm through into the welcoming arms of their West German brothers and sisters. |
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As our river bus weaves in and out among the swarm of vaporetti, traghetti, gondolas and private craft, Venice begins to reveal itself. |
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A swarm of brightly coloured flags, shirts, banners and placards competed for the eye's attention while a mishmash of languages filled the air. |
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If he didn't miss the ball altogether he'd miskick it, usually into the path of the opposing swarm. |
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Richard Gere sidles gracefully into the plush hotel suite, seemingly oblivious of the swarm of activity around him. |
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These people barely look old enough to be in the room, and they're all dancing mopily with one another in a big, buzzy swarm. |
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A swarm of blonds enters, catching whatever light there is in the ringlets of their hair. |
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A swarm of bees arrived in Derrybeg last Sunday and decided to make a hive in a chimney pot in Third Avenue. |
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Open car doors for the shortest time possible otherwise they'll bludge a lift in a great swarm on the windscreen. |
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Sherri shrugged, picked up the clicker and flicked it off as the animated Mount'n Man was trying to out-run a swarm of angry cartoon bees. |
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He walks even faster, and soon breaks into a trot as multitudes of rats swarm from sewers, basements, vacant lots, and abandoned cars. |
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Researchers say a swarm of bouncing, spherical bots the size of baseballs could hop across the red planet to search for life. |
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The market opens out into a harbour where people swarm everywhere, mending nets and building brightly coloured boats. |
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A swarm of bees cooperates to construct a hive. Humans group together to build towns, cities, and nations. |
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The first day, she had burst into a fit of coughs after opening her mouth only having to have a fly swarm into her mouth. |
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Tanen turned the starship around and launched a swarm of missiles towards the enemy. |
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Then when we got there a swarm of locust like marketeers engulfed our hapless family. |
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The seas teem with mullet, squid, cuttlefish, cardinal fish, and it is here they swarm in a forest of wire coral and black coral reefs. |
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As the swarm weaved in her direction and freely over the open air, the bridge felt far too short for her. |
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Be kind to the trees and they will bloom into flower for you and attract a flock of honeysuckers and a swarm of bees. |
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At an open-air market in the city of Kisangani, flies swarm around severed goat heads, stacked up like a scene from a horror show. |
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Yet everyone is out there mad with joy over a swarm of insects that will eat most every living plant in sight! |
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With a snare of some sort in one and a swarm of buzzing insects in the other, neither of the tunnels looked inviting. |
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An epic struggle between the Genohunters and a swarm of insects continues as the screen fades to black. |
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However, the very next day they found a swarm of mature adults very near the surface off Anaa Island. |
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But in October 1988 a swarm of desert locusts crossed the Atlantic traveling from Africa to the Caribbean. |
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Chances are, you've noticed a swarm of these black-and-red insects loitering in sunny spots as the weather turns cool. |
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The whole time he was on top of her, a swarm of tiny insects hanging over his right shoulder, she kept the woods in her peripheral vision. |
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He donned a protective suit and used a brush to gather the 4,000-strong swarm into a hive box before re-housing them. |
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Back in the US, the Pentagon has announced that it has trained honey bees to sniff out and swarm to explosives instead of flowers. |
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He explained why they swarm and how the queen is the centre of the swarm's activity. |
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In 1990, a honey bee swarm unlike any before found in the United States was identified just outside the small south Texas town of Hidalgo. |
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Honey bees rarely swarm away from the hive and only sting if they are antagonised. |
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The ball broke among a swarm of backs and forwards and was met by the flying hurl of Red Brian Murphy and then the net. |
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Loup shouted, and a swarm of vehicles and troops charged from the base into the Oppressor line. |
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Basso's team swarm around him like worker bees around their Queen, but they are in for a hard day in the saddle. |
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A swarm of birds hopped from the nearby rooftops and sped off into the air. |
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After decisively defeating a swarm of litigants claiming priority of conception he pursued a multitude of ideas and causes. |
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The opening minutes saw the Trinity goal a swarm of bodies as Emmaus launched several attacks that had Trinity on the back foot. |
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It permeates our affective landscape, impressing itself upon us so thoroughly that our very corporeal existence becomes host to a swarm of signs. |
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We made our way among a swarm of bodies, until I was face to face with a woman who was sobbing uninhibitedly. |
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The users' dislike of the application is actually caused by a swarm of tiny usability annoyances. |
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Viropharma stock was one of his calls during this period, and his people piled into it hugely, followed by a swarm of tag-along momentum players. |
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The July-August 2001 eruption at Etna was heralded by a seismic swarm initiated during the night of 12-13 July. |
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They were, in fact, driven back up the kloof by the swarm, and one of them was badly stung. |
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Reckless scientists have created a swarm of flying quadrotors that react to human gestures and movements. |
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In a stunning video that debuted this week in Las Vegas, he choreographs an aerial swarm of robot quadrotors to an electronic dance track. |
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Dense schools of fusiliers swarm past, followed by squadrons of predators like big-eye trevally, mackerel and rainbow runners. |
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The visual effect evoked a gentle snowstorm or a swarm of insects, associations which, it must be added, the artist regards as entirely incidental. |
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This terrifying shadowy swarm would obliterate the white light. |
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And even if you have the good luck to be healthy, a swarm of locusts could devour your crops, a tsunami could wash away your family, or a hurricane could blow apart your town. |
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Like the beekeeper taking his stand in the garden, it requires the prolonged use of miniaturized verbal trestles that can be dismantled once the swarm has gone. |
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When the chicks hatched Hernan went up again, checking out the nests while the parents and auxiliaries seethed around his head like a swarm of belligerent box kites. |
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A swarm of desert locusts may consist of up to 50 billion individuals. |
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Kiosks swarm round every underpass, Metro entrance and train station, selling anything from food and alcohol to pirated CD-ROMs and stereo components. |
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They swarm in squalling packs on to the roads, heedless of the rush-hour traffic, defying drivers to confront their pig-headed rebellion against road safety. |
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This is very good news, because bee lice have decimated wild bee populations around here, and this swarm may be a sign of recovery of the local population. |
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Life magazine ran a photo of Lamarr with a swarm of reporters, looking beleaguered and delicate in white gloves and a pillbox hat. |
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Darwin showed by an exemplary mathematical argument that the structure of the comb was precisely that which would minimize the amount of wax used by the swarm. |
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Normally an air accident investigation would involve a swarm of hard-nosed engineers and scientists poring over wreckage. |
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Like an elephant beset by bees, or the straw that broke the camel's back, this week's swarm of small irritating things could madden even tolerant Taurans. |
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With the Senators seemingly moments away from a victory in their final game, hordes of fans began vaulting over the retaining walls and proceeded to swarm the playing field. |
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Along the way, we remarked on the strange powdery consistency of the soil and marveled as we were surrounded by a swarm of infinitesimal white insects. |
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The highlight of the garden party was that an angry swarm of bees, whose beehive had been disturbed by accident, swooped down on the assembled guests. |
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They swarm in droves, pouring out of cars and vans with a mission to drive away with a fabulous treasure, for which they paid as little as possible. |
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Melody had surprised herself with how calm she had acted and appeared even though inside a swarm of butterflies flitted nervously and a shiver ran down her spine. |
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Air flowing into your nose carries with it a swarm of complex organic molecules that get trapped in the mucus-rich lining of the nose's inner recesses. |
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Finally, after perhaps several days of house-hunting, one of the sites gains overwhelming favour and the swarm moves off to start a new hive there. |
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Being dinner for a swarm of insects is nobody's idea of a good time. |
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Electron diameters are imprecise, but not because there are swarms of micro-electron-dust, each particle of which is also a swarm of something even smaller. |
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While he was doing that, Marion Barry was still holding court for a swarm of reporters back towards the stage. |
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While Maggie, Daryl, Sasha and the others frantically chip away at the undead swarm, Rick hesitates. |
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When these queens mature into adults, they compete to head a new colony either by leaving with a secondary swarm or by becoming the queen in the established nest site. |
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He hung up before she could say anything and found Bree and Matt amongst the swarm of students bunched around a makeshift stage in the TV room, where Acidburn was performing. |
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As a swarm of new dot-com brands try to buy their way to brand recognition, clutter makes it difficult to break out, and it's easy to fritter away advertising dollars. |
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The Stalwarts hoped to swarm the convention and force a challenge to the delegate roll. |
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She was sighted by a British aircraft, picked up again by the destroyer Sheffield, and in the evening attacked by a swarm of aircraft from the carrier Ark Royal. |
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There can be up to 40 billion locusts in one swarm. During one plague in Somalia, the locusts devoured enough food to feed 400,000 people for a whole year. |
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Researchers in Switzerland recently developed a concept to use a swarm of UAVs as a local communication network for emergency workers in disaster areas. |
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When one set of contestants comprises a swarm of tiny, highly mobile sperm and the other a few large, immotile eggs, there is a certain inevitability about the outcome. |
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Care would have to be taken to deflect the body intact rather than break it into pieces because a swarm of fragments might be more destructive than a single object. |
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Still the pod drew nearer to the hive and risked entering the swarm. |
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My bare legs were instantly stung by nettles, and a swarm of wasps gathered around the fake flower-reeds I had to drape myself in to become Titania. |
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Cars swarm dangerously around them on this two-lane road carved, literally, into the side of a chain of mountains. |
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The cause and outcome of the earthquake swarm are uncertain at this time. |
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Mayflies are fragile, gossamer-winged insects that arise from bodies of water and often swarm in great numbers. |
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The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance. |
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Studies on swarm robotics systems have shown the potential of large-scale multirobot systems based on decentralized control. |
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The world's largest dike swarm is the Mackenzie dike swarm in the Northwest Territories, Canada. |
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The sea breaks upon this coast against a palisadoed fence of rocks and cliffs, around which swarm flocks of polar birds with cries and screams. |
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The most conspicuous aspect of the footage was the swarm of benthic amphipods. |
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In hunting larger prey, crocodiles swarm in, with one holding the prey down as the others rip it apart. |
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There is a legend that as an infant, a swarm of bees settled on his face while he lay in his cradle, leaving behind a drop of honey. |
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By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. |
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And he wore a Sherlock Holmesy kind of cap with a swarm of salmon flies upon it, that to my boyish fancy was more splendid than a crown. |
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I separate my swarms with my smoke-pole, holding It near the swarm already settled, which will prevent others from settling. |
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At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. |
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Neighboring cleaner wrasses and other reef fish swarm to dine at this banquet. |
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Also known as Halloween Lady Beetles, apparently they often swarm at this time of year, trying to get into the house for the winter. |
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A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed themselves till there was no getting out again. |
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On countless occasions I've seen deer literally out of their minds under the onslaught of a midge or deer fly swarm attack. |
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It seems to me a cold, antish trick. But the fire that is... I will use it against the ants, while they swarm over everything. |
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Sharpton now escorted Fulton through the moving media swarm. |
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The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves. |
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Dario, Micromanipulation, communication and swarm intelligence issues in a swarm microrobotic platform, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. |
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Thus, we make use of a swarm of agents to search heuristically and randomly. |
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The fossils are tiny swarm cells, a stage in the development of the fungus myxomycetes, also known as slime moulds. |
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A swarm of wasps tested this understanding by building a nest in a gray zone in the casing between an interior window and a storm window. |
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During one skirmish, cannon-fire breaks the stone seal, unleashing hordes of mutants which swarm the globe, dragging victims into the machine to swell enemy ranks. |
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Theories included a swarm of insects to a home-made smoke signal, but now it seems it was the result of a new pyrotechnic show being tested at nearby Warwick Castle. |
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In addition, the action of the rotor creates bubble shear, giving rise to a broader swarm of smaller bubbles over a wider area, which increases surface-area-to-volume ratio. |
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Admittedly, he was standing in the midst an agitated swarm of his monastery's bees at the time and I had gormlessly encroached upon their territory. |
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Arachnophobia A VERY funny spoof on the old Hollywood bug invasion flicks, this 1990 skin-itcher had sleepy rural America overrun with a swarm of deadly Venezuelan nasties. |
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A dike swarm is a large geological structure consisting of a major group of parallel, linear, or radially oriented dikes intruded within continental crust. |
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Temperate bat species may swarm at hibernation sites as fall apporaches. |
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A group of jellyfish is sometimes called a bloom or a swarm. |
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The dissolving of the brushstroke in Forest answers the compression of individual black points in Hive, 2003, into a swarm that emerges unmediated from the broad green ground. |
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