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In the intestines of humans and animals, for instance, there were slender snake-shaped worms later named Ascaris, and tapeworms—flat, narrow ribbons that could stretch for sixty feet.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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In the intestines of humans and animals, for instance, there were slender snake-shaped worms later named Ascaris, and tapeworms—flat, narrow ribbons that could stretch for sixty feet.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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In the intestines of humans and animals, for instance, there were slender snake-shaped worms later named Ascaris, and tapeworms—flat, narrow ribbons that could stretch for sixty feet.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Motor up the snake-shaped island's spine, stopping for chocolate treats in Langley or Penn Cove mussels in Coupeville before boarding your second ferry from Keystone to Port Townsend.
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The banks are charmingly wooded with acacias of many varieties, some thorned like the fabled Zakkum, others parachute-shaped, and planted in impenetrable thickets: huge white creepers, snake-shaped, enclasp giant trees, or connect with their cordage the higher boughs, or depend like cables from the lower branches to the ground.
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He swung it open to reveal another section of snake-shaped corridor, this time lit with sullen yellow lights down the center of the roof.
Firestorm L.A Graf 2000
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On the floor near him was the snake-shaped dagger.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
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The snake-shaped dagger in Haplo's hand changed to a sword, made of fine steel, gleaming, heavy.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
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Crouching like a toad, he made another attempt to creep up on Haplo, halted at the flash of the snake-shaped blade.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
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It begins about Danish war-ships, snake-shaped, and ends about doing as you'd be done by.
The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901
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