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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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