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mandible
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  • Serget clicked her mandibles in a gruesome foamy grin.†   (source)
  • She scuttled forward, mandibles clacking, wings buzzing, dark Teflon eyes focused on me.†   (source)
  • She collapsed as one of the myrmekes caught her in its mandibles.†   (source)
  • They advanced, snapping their mandibles.†   (source)
  • Those mandibles would snap us in half like dried twigs.†   (source)
  • I managed to avoid its mandibles, but its armored face bashed the side of my head.†   (source)
  • The third ant loomed over me, its mandibles foaming with green saliva.†   (source)
  • And indeed, Mama grabbed me with her mandibles and tossed me over her head.†   (source)
  • Now black mandibles protruded from her mouth like tusks.†   (source)
  • Arachne's lips curled over her mandibles.†   (source)
  • And when she opened her mouth, sideways mandibles snapped and retracted outside her regular human teeth.†   (source)
  • She clicked her mandibles doubtfully.†   (source)
  • Their mandibles snapped at empty air.†   (source)
  • The three soldier ants advanced, their ten-foot-long antennae waving and bobbing in a mesmerizing way, trying to distract me from the true danger of their mandibles.†   (source)
  • Hearth said the same thing in sign language—a gesture that looked disturbingly like a set of mandibles rending flesh.†   (source)
  • Elbowed antennae trembled, mandibles clicked, and they began marching along the edge in an orderly clockwise procession.†   (source)
  • As it landed, the burrow grub divided into a dozen small, bright green centipedes, which swarmed over her arm before each chose a spot to sink its mandibles into her flesh and bore its way through her skin.†   (source)
  • Venom dribbled from its mandibles, and for just an instant, Max caught faint flashes of red designs on the creature's segmented body.†   (source)
  • Max remained still, ignoring the nauseating brush of its metallic body and clicking legs as it stopped and peered up at each, its mandibles aquiver.†   (source)
  • Arachne snapped her mandibles.†   (source)
  • I think the horn–covered mandibles of one of these squid are entangled in the blades.†   (source)
  • …whom it set dreaming of artificial charms and a refinement of sensual bliss; and then, behind him, M. de Palancy, who with his huge carp's head and goggling eyes moved slowly up and down the stream of festive gatherings, unlocking his great mandibles at every moment as though in search of his orientation, had the air of carrying about upon his person only an accidental and perhaps purely symbolical fragment of the glass wall of his aquarium, a part intended to suggest the whole which…†   (source)
  • To sum up, then: in the Right Whale's there is no great well of sperm; no ivory teeth at all; no long, slender mandible of a lower jaw, like the Sperm Whale's.†   (source)
  • His ax disappeared between the two enormous mandibles, and the Canadian, miraculously saved, stood and plunged his harpoon all the way into the devilfish's triple heart.†   (source)
  • Smashed, strangled, crushed by the fearsome arms of a devilfish, ground between its iron mandibles, this friend would never rest with his companions in the placid waters of their coral cemetery!†   (source)
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