A slater on the slope of a neighbouring roof eyed me curiously.
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A slater is seen upon the highest part of the roof.
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But the slater, he climbs higher than the mason. His face was purple.
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DOC deputy director general Mike Slater said it was the right decision.
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But has the new Christian Slater hacker drama taken things too far?
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Discovered in China, the animal looked like a woodlouse with claws.
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As I watched, a woodlouse blundered into a translucent tripline and the web vibrated.
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A well-bred woodlouse wouldn't employ you for a scavenger.
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They included giant woodlouse-like creatures known as trilobites, the five-eyed Opabinia, and the spiny slug-like Wiwaxia.
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I may be working minute by minute under the same gigantic limitations of understanding as a woodlouse.
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Soon after Richard was adopted, Orwell's flat was wrecked by a doodlebug.
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He figured out how to take out the Nazi doodlebug flying bombs!
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I just thrash about, and gang in circles like a doodlebug.
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But he sees a doodlebug that looks at him funny and he laughs out loud.
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The side of Bobby Lee's face twitched as though a doodlebug were crawling across it.
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Jam roly-poly arrived on the scene in 1845, courtesy of Eliza Acton.
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For such things had he known since he was a roly-poly puppy.
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The roly-poly couple behind him parted to let him stumble past.
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Fanny has made the roly-poly pudding,' says he; the chops are my part.
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They both heard a curious roly-poly noise under the attic floor.
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The worm wriggled for a moment and became a very large sowbug.
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The sowbug became a beetle.
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She found a translucent fossil rock which reminded her of a Miro & he watched ants assisting a sowbug to climb the driftwood.
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The group includes the terrestrial pill bugs and sowbugs, with numerous marine forms.
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Sowbugs had no speed at all.
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This was wise because he thus got ahead of the potatobug.
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The potatobug is another fellow to look out for.
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Perhaps it will interest that old farmer potatobug.
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Simple as a child, he is, and so gentle that it well-nigh breaks his heart to kill a potatobug.
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And on the under side of the leaf of the potato vine are the bright orange eggs of the potatobug.
Ús de pill bug en anglès
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It yielded one pillbug, one puparial case, and no plant inclusions.
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Lizzie flicked a pillbug off the purple rhododendrons she'd arranged inside a pitcher.
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Though I'd forward the pillbug and casing to the entomologist, I doubted either would be of much use.
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In the pillbug Armadillidium vulgare, the presence of Wolbachia is also associated with detrimental effects on host fertility and lifespan.
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The group includes the terrestrial pillbugs and sow bugs, with numerous marine forms.
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Woodlice, the little crustaceans often called pillbugs, and millipedes, also known as thousand-leggers, rolled themselves into armored spheres.
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The only sounds were the soft scrape of our rubber shoe soles on the concrete and the crunch of dead pillbugs.
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Past the threshold, our flashlights revealed dead pillbugs on the concrete steps, some crushed and some as whole and round as buckshot.
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It also, in a nod to super science nerds, features tardigrades, the microscopic "water bears" that look like pillbugs in khakis.
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In the beam from Sasha's flashlight, the first several steps were not covered in dust any longer, and the dead pillbugs were gone.
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In the North, earwigs and sow bugs ( pillbugs) are frequently found in mulched gardens but they do not become a serious pest.
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And even though they're technically crustaceans rather than insects, dead woodlice and pillbugs produced the same set of fatty acids as the other animals.