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  • As the raft draws closer I watch the sow pause mid-stride to look back for her cubs, and my heart quakes.

    Ice cold in Alaska 2012

  • When he pulled his shoe away, the squirrel had stopped moving, its legs paused mid-stride.

    Around Power Lines Angela Lutz 2011

  • A sound that freezes her in mid-stride like a blast of frigid Arctic air: the ka-chunk of a round being chambered.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • When he pulled his shoe away, the squirrel had stopped moving, its legs paused mid-stride.

    Around Power Lines Angela Lutz 2011

  • A sound that freezes her in mid-stride like a blast of frigid Arctic air: the ka-chunk of a round being chambered.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Really, though, the tradition goes back hundreds of years to Antoine "Pre-Prefontaine" Cadillac captured mid-stride here.

    Ben Falik: Hot to Trot: The Tradition Before the Tradition Ben Falik 2011

  • A sound that freezes her in mid-stride like a blast of frigid Arctic air: the ka-chunk of a round being chambered.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • A sound that freezes her in mid-stride like a blast of frigid Arctic air: the ka-chunk of a round being chambered.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • In the photograph, it's easy to see the wind is blowing with the tree branches bent westward, his mother caught in mid-stride some five feet or so behind his father, staring away from the camera, and his father fully facing the camera.

    The Bottom Field Sheldon Lee Compton 2012

  • Another pop, and the spearwoman was gone as well, caught in mid-stride.

    Trial of Seven grrm 2010

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