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Dragon-fly snakes corkscrewed in thermals and bit at prey.
Archive 2004-06-01 2004
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Dragon-fly snakes corkscrewed in thermals and bit at prey.
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Dragon-fly snakes corkscrewed in thermals and bit at prey.
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Dragon-fly larvæ also feed freely on mosquito larvæ.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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"Give way, men," the oars dipped as clean as so many knives, without a sparkle, the gallant fellows stretched out, and away shot the Dragon-fly, like an arrow, the green water foaming into white smoke at the bows, and hissing away in her wake.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 Various
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(1857?) 8105You hail from Dream-land, Dragon-fly?
Quotations 1919
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He earned for himself in those days the name of "Dragon-fly," or its native equivalent, and the illustration was apt, for it seemed that the _Zaire_ would poise, buzzing angrily, then dart off in unexpected directions, and the spirit of complacency which had settled upon the land gave place to one of apprehension, which, in the old days, followed the arrival of Sanders in
Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903
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Dragon-fly larvae walk, and also swim by movements of the abdomen or by expelling a jet of water from the hind-gut.
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Now let me know that the twelve are mine, O White Dragon-fly.
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The Blue Dragon-fly has made himself one of them, that they may never be defeated.
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