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  • The most important goal of mating being the propagation of the species -- the more bountiful the better -- this barn swallow's transformation can only be judged an immense success.

    Calls of the Wild 2008

  • Mayfly vanishes in the blur of a swallow's wings over the gravel walk.

    Excerpt: Timothy by Verlyn Klinkenborg 2006

  • Albertus, treat: a swallow's heart, dust of a dove's heart, multum valent linguae viperarum, cerebella asinorum, tela equina, palliola quibus infantes obvoluti nascuntur, funis strangulati hominis, lapis de nido Aquilae,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The book is by turns hilarious, dead- serious, and touchingly innocent Steve, the "swallow" of Escoffier's bird's nest soup is an Asian swift which makes its nests from saliva-- it is no wonder that boiling a Cliff swallow's nest yielded you nothing but warm mud!

    Archive 2006-03-01 2006

  • The book is by turns hilarious, dead- serious, and touchingly innocent Steve, the "swallow" of Escoffier's bird's nest soup is an Asian swift which makes its nests from saliva-- it is no wonder that boiling a Cliff swallow's nest yielded you nothing but warm mud!

    "Foodies" vs AR? 2006

  • From frog ovaries to swallow's nests, you can get all sorts of things added to smoothies and fruit juices!

    More than Bubble Tea 2005

  • From frog ovaries to swallow's nests, you can get all sorts of things added to smoothies and fruit juices!

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • I said, "Look there, in the rafters - a swallow's made her nest"

    Canaries in the Mine 1989

  • Turn the numbers that represent the way a swallow's wings beat directly into music.

    Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 1987

  • The first task was a relatively simple one, which would be simply to plot the waveform described by the tip of a swallow's wing as it flies, then synthesise that waveform.

    Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 1987

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