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She takes the form of a huge pale-bellied serpent and swallows them up, swallows them whole.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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She takes the form of a huge pale-bellied serpent and swallows them up, swallows them whole.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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She takes the form of a huge pale-bellied serpent and swallows them up, swallows them whole.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Harris carried a small, grayish, pale-bellied bird with a black cap.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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The waves they raised slapped loudly at the wall below the parapet, and there were suddenly dead fish floating pale-bellied on the surface.
Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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(Branta bernicla), which breeds along the Arctic coasts of northern Siberia; the Svalbard population occurs in England regularly only at Lindisfarne; while small numbers of Canadian pale-bellied brent geese occur occasionally in the south west with the main population wintering in Ireland.
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(Branta bernicla), which breeds along the Arctic coasts of northern Siberia; the Svalbard population occurs in England regularly only at Lindisfarne; while small numbers of Canadian pale-bellied brent geese occur occasionally in the south west with the main population wintering in Ireland.
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The island's elemental qualities are in full swing in winter, as birds hunker down in the face of North Sea gales - the pale-bellied Brent goose, from Svalbard, north of Norway, over-winters here in numbers of up to 3,000.
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