Check and balance; tit for tat; give and take; loss and profit.
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But pockets of violence remain and tit-for-tat killings on both sides continued.
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This time, though, there is no obvious way to end the tit-for-tat.
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A year later she's back and I slice off the other tit.
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In blackthorn the long-tailed tit builds the domed nest every one admires.
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The tits experienced no difficulty in ripping this off with the beak.
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It is six marsh tits, as busy as they can well be.
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It's all cause of the dang tits. She scowled down at them.
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Or are working-class tits somehow less of a problem than posh ones?
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She shoved the shoulder straps down, and let her tits bobble free.
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Avram listens to Ora and a titmouse chirps joyously in the thicket.
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Sometimes, hanging with head downward, the bird suggests a yellow titmouse.
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These include the northern cardinal, American robin, Eastern bluebird, tufted titmouse and red-bellied woodpecker.
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It often hangs lice a titmouse, with its back downwards.
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It often hangs like a titmouse, with its back downwards.
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The busier chickadees and creepers searched the twigs and trunks, interpolating occasional remarks.
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Two chickadees upside down uttering liquid undertones, searched busily for insects next their heads.
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We all know the lively black-capped chickadees that fly around in flocks throughout the winter.
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The titmice or chickadees (Parinae) are fluffy little gray birds, the one crested.
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But he had never intended on cooking over four dozen of those feathered egg-producing chickadees.
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It is a member of family Paridae but it was long thought to be related to the ground jays because of their morphological similarities.
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Everywhere I saw bluejays; crested titmice, too, were plentiful, as well as crossbeaks.
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The titmice or chickadees (Parinae) are fluffy little gray birds, the one crested.
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Usually seen clinging erect on tree-trunks; rarely, if ever, head downward, like the nuthatches, titmice, etc.
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She writes the students' choices: grosbeaks, mourning doves, tufted titmice (Goatee and Sideburns snicker), chickadees.
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Wilfred Scawen Blunt of Crabbet-"TheOld Squire"-FrederickLocker-Lampson of Rowfant-The Rowfant books-"ToF. L."-TheRowfant titmice.
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The titmice are going to warn him against the hawk, and the finches and larks will sing of his valour.
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Every hollow tree-andthere are many hollow trees where none are felled-hasits nest of starlings, or titmice, or woodpeckers.
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The blue titmice flew over it in a flock again and again, with much sweet gossiping, but they did not venture nearer.
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The blue, marsh, and great titmice will, in very severe weather, carry away barley and oat straws from the sides of ricks.
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The longtailed titmice come along in parties of six or eight, calling to each other as in turn they visit every tree.
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The common song birds of Europe are grouped here, including blackcaps, wrens, the active little titmice, together with the North American wood warblers.
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Bearded titmice were there, clinging to the stalks of the sedges, and long-necked herons rose from the reedy places where they love to wade.
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I could hear titmice in the copse to the left, and a flock of jays calling out to each other as they fed, further on.
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Titmice and jays hovered above them, calling to one another excitedly.
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Titmice always see to it you are not lonely as you walk through the woods.
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Titmice and nuthatches, which have many similar characteristics, are often seen in the most friendly hunting parties on the same tree.