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While at the beach, not only did we dig up filthy sand crabs by the bucket-load, but during the medical waste dumping scandal it was commonplace to scoop up a syringe cover or used Band-Aid along with the little beetle-like critters.
Daniel P. Malito: The Dangers Of 'Nerfing' The World For Our Kids Daniel P. Malito 2011
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While at the beach, not only did we dig up filthy sand crabs by the bucket-load, but during the medical waste dumping scandal it was commonplace to scoop up a syringe cover or used Band-Aid along with the little beetle-like critters.
Daniel P. Malito: The Dangers Of 'Nerfing' The World For Our Kids Daniel P. Malito 2011
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While at the beach, not only did we dig up filthy sand crabs by the bucket-load, but during the medical waste dumping scandal it was commonplace to scoop up a syringe cover or used Band-Aid along with the little beetle-like critters.
Daniel P. Malito: The Dangers Of 'Nerfing' The World For Our Kids Daniel P. Malito 2011
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While at the beach, not only did we dig up filthy sand crabs by the bucket-load, but during the medical waste dumping scandal it was commonplace to scoop up a syringe cover or used Band-Aid along with the little beetle-like critters.
Daniel P. Malito: The Dangers Of 'Nerfing' The World For Our Kids Daniel P. Malito 2011
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The drawings, on display in Mr. Schilperoord's book, show a car looking very much like the beetle-like Standard-Superior.
What a Long Strange Trip Patrick Cooke 2012
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So for instance I was a large beetle-like creature, only I was mostly blue, and he explained me as a sea-bug with teleportation powers, and I guess it was a bit more complicated because I could control people by speaking power words at them.
James 2009
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So for instance I was a large beetle-like creature, only I was mostly blue, and he explained me as a sea-bug with teleportation powers, and I guess it was a bit more complicated because I could control people by speaking power words at them.
James Erin Fleming 2009
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The person immediately ahead of him in the queue was a small, swiftly-moving, beetle-like man with a flat face and tiny, suspicious eyes.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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On the far side of the room, sitting at a table alone, a small, curiously beetle-like man was drinking a cup of coffee, his little eyes darting suspicious glances from side to side.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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It was curious how that beetle-like type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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