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  • Matthew stood in the rough circle of crushed grass his six year old legs had stamped down, and watched his father slide a jack under the front end of a red-bodied, Case-International tractor, over by the fence.

    Changing a Flat CL Bledsoe 2010

  • There was still a drawing on the tower door of the devil, red-bodied, blue-tailed and wearing a yellow spiked pickelhaube helmet.

    Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

  • Men they were, yet hardly men they seemed, but rather unknown denizens of rock, or wave, or underworld; now red-bodied against the gleam, now ethereally black as are shadows, and whimsical and shifty, yet always full of meaning that could not be divined.

    A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • Three kinds seem common -- one red-bodied, another a black one with brown thorax, and a third very small and all black.

    The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • The company says it specifically targeted women by producing white and red-bodied models, rather than solely the big black types that previously dominated shelves.

    unknown title 2011

  • The red-bodied Echidna also gets his own separate storyline sequences, taking a different plot path through the game even when the stages he's blazing through are the same as Sonic's.

    IGN Wii 2010

  • This difference in vision, observed in fish in an African lake, could be pushing red-bodied cichlids to branch off from their blue-bodied brethren and to form a new species.

    Darwiniana 2008

  • But if you see red-bodied flying insects that look like ants, look closer: They're termites.

    All Stories - Bainbridge Island Review 2008

  • Across the scorched ground, masses of red-bodied spiders rolled toward the trail from the fringes of forest that lay to either side of the fire’s wide swath.

    Wit'ch Storm Clemens, James 1999

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