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  • Bees, termites, and rodents infested the dwelling, and once, when Jonathan was still a baby, fierce army ants, called siafu, climbed up his cot by the thousands and attacked him.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Bees, termites, and rodents infested the dwelling, and once, when Jonathan was still a baby, fierce army ants, called siafu, climbed up his cot by the thousands and attacked him.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • She nursed him out of bed, shooed the siafu from his face, fed him toast.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • From his cot he heard siafu feasting on the big men and heard them claw themselves in their sleeping bags.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • He imagined the Jims clearly, their damp bodies prone in their sleeping bags, exhaling booze and hashish, tiny siafu biting their faces.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • She nursed him out of bed, shooed the siafu from his face, fed him toast.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • He imagined the Jims clearly, their damp bodies prone in their sleeping bags, exhaling booze and hashish, tiny siafu biting their faces.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • From his cot he heard siafu feasting on the big men and heard them claw themselves in their sleeping bags.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • She nursed him out of bed, shooed the siafu from his face, fed him toast.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • He imagined the Jims clearly, their damp bodies prone in their sleeping bags, exhaling booze and hashish, tiny siafu biting their faces.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

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