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  • It is also true that every series has a balls-to-the-wall, balloon-going-up volume where all the ant-hills are kicked over and all hell breaks loose and many metaphors are mixed.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

  • It is also true that every series has a balls-to-the-wall, balloon-going-up volume where all the ant-hills are kicked over and all hell breaks loose and many metaphors are mixed.

    Death-Bringer by Patrick Tilley Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Georgiev said his team had found strains of bulgaricus in soil, on some trees 'bark, in blossoms and even in ant-hills in Bulgaria's most environmentally clean regions such as Momchilovtsi in the southern Rhodopa mountains.

    Archive 2005-02-01 2005

  • Georgiev said his team had found strains of bulgaricus in soil, on some trees 'bark, in blossoms and even in ant-hills in Bulgaria's most environmentally clean regions such as Momchilovtsi in the southern Rhodopa mountains.

    Want to live 100 years? Eat Bulgarian yoghurt 2005

  • Georgiev said his team had found strains of bulgaricus in soil, on some trees 'bark, in blossoms and even in ant-hills in Bulgaria's most environmentally clean regions such as Momchilovtsi in the southern Rhodopa mountains.

    Archive 2005-02-01 2005

  • Geoffrey the following week, as they were shovelling up ant-hills in the wood.

    Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

  • For example, spider webs, ant-hills, termite mounds and even things like cars can all have a ‘designer’ inferred because we can detect something about the designer.

    Washington Post Chastises Smithsonian - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • The country over which we had traveled from the Chobe was perfectly flat, except where there were large ant-hills, or the remains of former ones, which had left mounds a few feet high.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • No one who has not seen their gigantic structures can fancy the industry of these little laborers; they seem to impart fertility to the soil which has once passed through their mouths, for the Makololo find the sides of ant-hills the choice spots for rearing early maize, tobacco, or any thing on which they wish to bestow especial care.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • From one of these ant-hills we discovered an inlet to the Chobe; and, having gone back for the pontoon, we launched ourselves on a deep river, here from eighty to one hundred yards wide.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

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