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  • There will be no foul weather, or any parasites to hassle them, or any weeds to compete with for soil or nutrients.†   (source)
  • Then she says, "You brung the parasite into this house."†   (source)
  • Park could tell her that he had lice and leprosy and parasitic worms living in his mouth, and she would still put on fresh ChapStick.†   (source)
  • Even that damn parasite, the patroller, saw the resemblance between me and Alice's mother."†   (source)
  • Moving every day also keeps the cows healthier, because they can get away from their droppings, which can contain unhealthy parasites.†   (source)
  • Wherever the trains stopped, the migrants went, gaunt and dirty, plagued by parasites they had picked up along the way, to front doors to beg.†   (source)
  • I personally set myself apart from the war on blood parasites.†   (source)
  • Obtain the boat schedules, have a doctor's examination for parasites…… " I read the long list she provided, and was surprised at how smart she truly was.†   (source)
  • The nematodes remain-perhaps thicker, perhaps not. l am convinced that they are purely parasitic although my body has shown no signs of this.†   (source)
  • There were many I didn't know, and others I couldn't be sure about because they were so covered in green parasites.†   (source)
  • He's dirty and smelly, and his ragged wings harbor parasites.†   (source)
  • Hiro scans it briefly to see if any of his friends are in there, but it's mostly parasites and has-beens.†   (source)
  • Revisionists have condemned them as racists, economic parasites, and despoilers of the land.†   (source)
  • They're interdimensional parasites.†   (source)
  • A little later the only Warsaw newspaper published in Polish by the Germans provided an official comment on this subject: not only were the Jews social parasites, they also spread infection.†   (source)
  • They began by living like parasites of gloom in their big empty houses, they became the confidantes of their servants, lovers of their pillows, with nothing to do after so many years of sterile captivity.†   (source)
  • And he thought then about the Guild — the force that had specialized for so long that it had become a parasite, unable to exist independently of the life upon which it fed.†   (source)
  • Often a parasite who cannot or will not carry his own weight.†   (source)
  • We also try to combat parasites in our own bodies in the form of bacteria.†   (source)
  • Years of withdrawal were brushed aside and left behind, as hanging ropes of parasitic moss.†   (source)
  • He and the young doctors discussed a patient who had recently been treated for a parasite in the brain.†   (source)
  • Those parasites were such morons, they counted worse than any herdsman.†   (source)
  • Like a leech or a tick or some other parasite, he extracted the life from the plant, leaving it limp and brown.†   (source)
  • And if we tried to arrange it, prolong it, control it, if we tried to take more than what we've—by some miracle, some miracle, I swear—stumbled on, then I'd just become a parasite and we'd both shrivel.†   (source)
  • The Fox Brothers Circus has just collapsed, and Uncle Al is ecstatic because they employed the world-famous Charles Mansfield-Livingston, a handsome, dapper man with a parasitic twin growing out of his chest.†   (source)
  • I hate the way it gloms on to me like some kind of parasite.†   (source)
  • A virus is a parasite.†   (source)
  • I can't remember how many times I crouched over our latrine, my teeth clenched, watching long gray parasites slide out from between my legs.†   (source)
  • He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations.†   (source)
  • Protection against the spurt of blood or pus and the viral entities hidden within, submicroscopic parasites in their soviet socialist protein coats.†   (source)
  • Neth had definitely been sickly and gaunt, but perhaps that had been from tuberculosis, parasites, or exhaustion.†   (source)
  • Suleman had returned each day to monitor Mortenson's recovery, bringing him bags of sweets and medicines for the parasites Mortenson had picked up in Waziristan and taking him out for meals at his favorite Kabuli sidewalk barbecue.†   (source)
  • They were parasites to be crushed.†   (source)
  • Like a parasite's, the system's life depends on the continuation of mine.†   (source)
  • But here in Mr. Gower's hands I become other—a parasite on her body, no longer of her mind.†   (source)
  • They have brick houses, I blow their kids' noses and cure their parasites, give them vaccinations and teach them how to read.†   (source)
  • A quack doctor pitched patent medicines from the back of a wagon: "A rare cordial to fortify the innards against infective parasites, unwholesome damps, and malignant effluvia!"†   (source)
  • Man the cow parasite is probably how non-man defines man in his zoology books.†   (source)
  • Laloo had a "parasitic twin emerging from his chest."†   (source)
  • Nealon, not even service dogs are allowed onto this ward without a letter from the vet stating that the vaccinations are up to date and the stool's tested negative for parasites—"†   (source)
  • The parasites never get off the dole.†   (source)
  • The brothers Atho and Harry Ranta were typical: two useless parasites who had found out way too much about the business.†   (source)
  • When my grandmother would criticize me, I could remember, even if the laws of respect kept me silent, that I was a contributing member of the household in which she and Caroline were little more than parasites.†   (source)
  • The vibrations from those words rode like parasites on the air waves and came rushing into her kitchen, smashing the compression into indistinguishable days and hours that swirled dizzily before her.†   (source)
  • When a spirit possesses a human, they're like a parasite attaching their own life force to their victim's.†   (source)
  • I wasn't concerned with the parasites of office and laboratory.†   (source)
  • But under the bright fluorescents, I see them clearly, little parasites wriggling through her hair, hopping around her ears.†   (source)
  • I think you're probably a social parasite.†   (source)
  • They are constantly bombarded by the wiles of parasites and sycophants, by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious, the desperate, by the artifices of men who have more confidence than they deserve, and of those who seek to possess rather than to deserve it.†   (source)
  • The thought of body parasites scrambled through her head.†   (source)
  • At Luna it would be much the way barges are now landed off Bombay, solid-charge retrorockets programmed by ground control—except that it would be much cheaper, two and a half kilometer-seconds change of motion versus eleven-plus, a squared factor of about twenty—but actually even more favorable, as retros are parasitic weight and the payload improves accordingly.†   (source)
  • Male and female Glatun were nonsentient parasites that existed within a brood pouch on the Glatun sentient neuters.†   (source)
  • With this in mind, I began making collections of the parasites found in wolf-killed caribou.†   (source)
  • Supporting such parasites was considerably less of a burden than providing the armies of ticket-collectors, shop assistants, bank clerks, stockbrokers and so forth whose main function, when one took the global point of view, was to transfer items from one ledger to another.†   (source)
  • It seems deserted, free of parasitic man, but this is not entirely so.†   (source)
  • They saw the mistletoe birds planting their crops: plastering tree trunks with the reeds of the parasites that would later provide them with food.†   (source)
  • Immediately after this announcement, national magazines came out with stories about intestinal parasites and hunger in Beaufort County.†   (source)
  • And we had considered them parasites and half dangerous, serving some hidden cause of the President's, people we had to be careful with.†   (source)
  • Gluttons and parasites sat on the backs of the starving workers and drove them to death, and you imagine things could stay like that?†   (source)
  • You parasites want Esper powers reserved for an exclusive class so you can turn the rest of the world into a host for your blood-sucking!†   (source)
  • Living in a cave, fighting off the body parasites, gnawing the odd bone.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the connection between them grows ever stronger, a parasitic growth.†   (source)
  • Foodborne parasites and pathogens made diarrhea almost ubiquitous.†   (source)
  • Day 195 Weeks of studying the damn parasite and still no clue as to how it functions.†   (source)
  • They also pick insect larvae and parasites out of the animal's droppings.†   (source)
  • The parasite is not just a punk out having a good time.†   (source)
  • Take it up, Sasha, you're picking up some parasites.†   (source)
  • These parasites are considered to be synonymous with demons.†   (source)
  • The sight of the hideous thing clinging to his teacher like a parasite revolted Max.†   (source)
  • He knew the broad-spectrum antibiotic to rid the gut of parasites.†   (source)
  • "So are you all just going to hang out with the parasites for the rest of your lives?" he demanded.†   (source)
  • And these parasites had been trained-- whatever good it'd done them.†   (source)
  • You, who've expended an inconceivable flow of energy, have been called a parasite.†   (source)
  • The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by the human parasite.†   (source)
  • To me it looked as if the parasitic twin wasn't "emerging" from Laloo, but climbing back into him.†   (source)
  • The parasite'd probably get a kick out of the theatrics of it.†   (source)
  • Jared, when have you ever met a parasite who could lie about anything?†   (source)
  • The words that came into his mind were "useless," "selfish," "parasite."†   (source)
  • I step forward and peer closely at one of the small puddles, checking for signs of parasites.†   (source)
  • "What I'd like to figure out is how I got a parasite," Dixie said.†   (source)
  • Because any parasite that kills its host is a failure.†   (source)
  • The successful parasites were those that could live off the host without killing him.†   (source)
  • "I am like a parasite," he thought when he pocketed it.†   (source)
  • It could also result in unequal parts, like Laloo and his parasitic twin.†   (source)
  • There were hundreds of infections and parasites that could cause the basic symptoms.†   (source)
  • Do they remember how the host-parasite relationship was formed?†   (source)
  • Wouldn't want our precious parasites taking unnecessary chances.†   (source)
  • "Of all those who live by the ability of others," said Rearden, "you're the one real parasite."†   (source)
  • When need is the standard, every man is both victim and parasite.†   (source)
  • Talked to the parasite that worked there, though that one had already been questioned.†   (source)
  • I told you I didn't want to be a parasite," I whispered.†   (source)
  • No matter how he felt about me, he'd been conditioned to expect a parasite, a centipede, a monster.†   (source)
  • Do you think the parasites'll be gone for long?†   (source)
  • You know how the parasites are always so… verypleasant?†   (source)
  • I thought the parasites–I mean the souls–didn't like negative humor.†   (source)
  • Muscles like that are the product of hard living or obsession, and the parasites have neither.†   (source)
  • The parasites are holding the Olympics in Haiti right now.†   (source)
  • He wanted to do away with this parasite, destroy it.†   (source)
  • Disgusting parasites.†   (source)
  • You see, cuckoos are parasites.†   (source)
  • Mars has no insects, parasites, or blights to deal with, and the Hab maintains perfect growing temperature and moisture at all times.†   (source)
  • The Germans were too cultured and magnanimous a race, said the newspaper, to confine even parasites like the Jews to ghettos, a medieval remnant unworthy of the new order in Europe.†   (source)
  • Either there was soil deeper down, or this species of tree was a remarkable instance of a commensal or a parasite.†   (source)
  • He brings pages, the Baron thought, and useless court lackeys, his women and their companions — hair-dressers, designers, everything …. all the fringe parasites of the Court.†   (source)
  • According to Dr. Neal D. Bernard, who heads the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, chicken manure may contain dangerous bacteria such as Salmonella and Campylobacter, parasites such as tapeworms and Giardia lamblia, antibiotic residues, arsenic, and heavy metals.†   (source)
  • Parasites!†   (source)
  • A tiny parasitic wasp had invaded several ChickieNobs installations, carrying a modified form of chicken pox, specific to the ChickieNob and fatal to it.†   (source)
  • A parasite of humans that extinguished us altogether, you see, would quickly be laid to rest in human graves.†   (source)
  • Instead, it destroys the fertile Nile Delta, produces parasitic infestation, and wrecks the Egyptian economy.†   (source)
  • The automated fecal analysis (called Auto Poop), designed to check for parasites in the animal stools, invariably recorded all specimens as having the parasite Phagostomum venulosum, although none did.†   (source)
  • The parasite did its best to block the pain; Theta was unconscious much of the time and his body was producing incredible quantities of endorphins.†   (source)
  • The first announced that Jews were to do two years' labour in concentration camps where we would receive 'appropriate social education', to cure us of being 'parasites on the healthy organism of the Aryan peoples'.†   (source)
  • Feces can be infected with parasites.†   (source)
  • They've risked Mobutu and every imaginable parasite in the backwater places where children were left to die or endure when the Underdowns and their ilk fled the country.†   (source)
  • Because of the chickens, Joel doesn't have to treat his cattle with toxic chemicals to get rid of parasites.†   (source)
  • There is no way thai the cruciform can regenerate something out of these bare bones; even the terrible illogic of this accursed parasite must respect the imperative of the law of conservation of mass.†   (source)
  • Eating the grubs and larvae cuts down on bugs and parasites -- in this case, tiny organisms that live on or in the cow -- that would bother the cattle.†   (source)
  • The automated fecal analysis (called Auto Poop), designed to check for parasites in the animal stools, invariably recorded all specimens as having the parasite Phagostomum venulosum, although none did.†   (source)
  • If God had amused himself inventing the lilies of the field, he surely knocked His own socks off with the African parasites.†   (source)
  • One might even argue that if an animal could choose with intelligence, it would opt for living in a zoo, since the major difference between a zoo and the wild is the absence of parasites and enemies and the abundance of food in the first, and their respective abundance and scarcity in the second.†   (source)
  • The trees were not parasites.†   (source)
  • Edouard, I have spent-so many hours wrestling with my faith-my lack of faith-but now, in this fearful corner of an all but forgotten world, riddied as I am with this loathsome parasite, I have somehow rediscovered a strength of belief the likes of which I have not known since you and I were boys.†   (source)
  • So to them there was no difference between infection with a parasite, like tapeworm, and demonic possession.†   (source)
  • Now he was reported to be bearded, wild-haired, and struggling badly with malnutrition and parasites.†   (source)
  • We have to boil our water because it comes from the stream, where parasites multiply in teeming throngs.†   (source)
  • Basically, it just certifies that Y.T. is not a terrorist, Communist (whatever that is), homosexual, national-symbol desecrator, pornography merchant, welfare parasite, racially insensitive, carrier of any infectious disease, or advocate of any ideology tending to impugn traditional family values.†   (source)
  • They even had their own version of the Gospels in which Jesus healed possessed people, not with miracles, but by driving parasites, such as tapeworm, out of their body.†   (source)
  • I imagined honey-colored parasites celebrating in my golden-tinted organs as I alternately froze and burned.†   (source)
  • When I'm nervous or sad I also fall prey to the awful itch from filaires, tiny parasites that crawl into your pores and cause a flare-up every so often.†   (source)
  • We spent nineteen days in the infirmary, swallowing a variety of specialized poisons, since we had intestinal parasites, fungus growing on our feet and forearms, and more than the usual degree of malaria.†   (source)
  • Africa has parasites so particular and diverse as to occupy every niche of the body: intestines small and large, the skin, the bladder, the male and female reproductive tracts, interstitial fluids, even the cornea.†   (source)
  • Every nerve in my body was crying out that this was not my baby, that it was something horrible and unnatural, as inhuman as a parasite.†   (source)
  • Parasitic little doppelgangers that are so good at what they do that not even the imitated species can sniff 'em out as fakes.†   (source)
  • "Parasite of the tent caterpillar," he says, depositing the slide with reverence on a clean piece of paper at my table.†   (source)
  • Within a short while the parasite would attach to a man's intestinesand slowly suck the nutrients out of him.†   (source)
  • Hunger clung to them like a relentless parasite, gnawing at their bellies, devouring their strength, and sapping their will to continue.†   (source)
  • His hands were pale, with green veins and fingers that were like parasites, and he wore a solid gold ring with a round sunflower opal on his left index finger.†   (source)
  • Within the hospital he was known as a superb clinical bacteriologist, but his real interest remained parasites.†   (source)
  • Giving her some small, orphaned kisses in the hollow of her wounded hand, he opened up the most hidden passageways of his heart and drew out an interminable and lacerated intestine, the terrible parasitic animal that had incubated in his martyrdom.†   (source)
  • Likewise, through his philanthropic efforts, Jimmy Carter has almost succeeded in wiping out guinea worm, an ancient parasite that has afflicted humans throughout recorded history.†   (source)
  • No one noticed a little boy of about Blanca's age who was standing there with a runny nose, his naked belly swollen with parasites.†   (source)
  • Tereza took pleasure in their antics and could not help thinking (it is an idea that kept coming back to her during her two years in the country) that man is as much a parasite on the cow as the tapeworm is on man: We have sucked their udders like leeches.†   (source)
  • He was disdainful of anyone who had a regular crowd of parasites loafing about their stores, discussing the taste of yuca and their last lays.†   (source)
  • Smith viewed the press as parasitic.†   (source)
  • But she didn't think she could maintain another minute wondering what microcosmic parasites were crawling over her skin.†   (source)
  • It now became useful, because wolf scats sometimes carry the eggs of a particularly baneful parasite which, if inhaled by man, hatch into minute worms that bore their way into his brain where they encyst, frequently with fatal results both to themselves and to their host.†   (source)
  • She prepared a repugnant potion for them made out of mashed wormseed, which they both drank with unforeseen stoicism, and they sat down at the same time on their pots eleven times in a single day, expelling some rose-colored parasites that they showed to everybody with great jubilation, for it allowed them to deceive Ursula as to the origin of their distractions and drowsiness.†   (source)
  • It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles.†   (source)
  • Several of these deer were so heavily infested with external and internal parasites that they were little better than walking menageries, doomed to die soon in any case.†   (source)
  • Infectious and parasitic illnesses were ubiquitous, and there was no public health system to measure their extent or even to identify them, let alone a clinic in the area to cure them.†   (source)
  • It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the flooding infection of people, the dead spots of concrete all over the planet, the cancerous rot-outs in Europe, Japan, and the United States, thick with replicating primates, the colonies enlarging and spreading and threatening to shock the biosphere with mass extinctions.†   (source)
  • Schistosomiasis, a parasitic infection, shows a preference for bladder, intestine, or colonic vessels—depending on the species.†   (source)
  • Works most of the time but requires reapplication since it doesn't always kill the parasite, just the bacteria culture.†   (source)
  • The more one contemplates the hot viruses, the less they look like parasites and the more they begin to look like predators.†   (source)
  • Subsections bacterial, viral, parasitic, other. d) pharmacology, with material for dose-relation and receptor site specificity studies of known compounds.†   (source)
  • "Which is why I'm thinking parasite," Dr. Johannsen said, bringing the camera for the microscope down.†   (source)
  • As a victim, he must labor to fill the needs of others, leaving himself in the position of a parasite whose needs must be filled by others.†   (source)
  • I think that these pains are caused by intestinal parasites like especially AMIBES or ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA because of all these symptoms.†   (source)
  • He had done parasitic research all over the world; his work had led to the discovery of the Brazilian tapeworm, Taenia renzi, which he had characterized in a paper in 1953.†   (source)
  • Isn't it generally agreed that an owner is a parasite and an exploiter, that it is the employees who do all the work and make the product possible?†   (source)
  • But Deo felt that the author could just as easily have been describing deaths from intestinal parasites and malaria in Butanza or Sangaza or Kayanza or the slums of Bujumbura.†   (source)
  • We've heard it shouted that the industrialist is a parasite, that his workers support him, create his wealth, make his luxury possible-and what would happen to him if they walked out?†   (source)
  • And the most successful hosts were those that could tolerate the parasite, or even turn it to advantage, to make it work for the host.†   (source)
  • Other parasites did the same thing.†   (source)
  • It is this foulest of creatures-the double-parasite who lives on the sores, of the poor and the blood of the rich-whom men have come to regard as a moral ideal.†   (source)
  • And parasites.†   (source)
  • Just as the mystic is a parasite in matter, who expropriates the wealth created by others-just as he is a parasite in spirit, who plunders the ideas created by others-so he falls below the level of a lunatic who creates his own distortion of reality, to the level of a parasite of lunacy who seeks a distortion created by others.†   (source)
  • As some men were escaping with their bodies into the underground of uninhabited regions, so others could only save their souls and were escaping into the underground of their minds-and no power on earth could tell whether their blankly indifferent eyes were shutters protecting hidden treasures at the bottom of shafts no longer to be mined, or were merely gaping holes of the parasite's emptiness never to be filled.†   (source)
  • It's just that there's no profits for them-that's why they're letting you perish, those greedy parasites!†   (source)
  • I don't want to be a filthy parasite!†   (source)
  • I heard three parasites assert that my brain and my life were their property, that my right to exist was conditional and depended on the satisfaction of their desires.†   (source)
  • Sweep aside those parasites of subsidized classrooms, who live on the profits of the mind of others and proclaim that man needs no morality, no values, no code of behavior.†   (source)
  • Individual parasite sports are much more entertaining than when they try to compete against each other directly.†   (source)
  • I'll just take your light with me, Doc, so that Jeb's pet parasite can't get up to anything, and be on my way.†   (source)
  • Do not think that it should have been distributed among you; loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one, would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune.†   (source)
  • You're not a parasite," Melanie said firmly, touching my hair, pulling up a strand and letting the gold slide between her fingers.†   (source)
  • She thought suddenly of those modern college-infected parasites who assumed a sickening air of moral self-righteousness whenever they uttered the standard bromides about their concern for the welfare of others.†   (source)
  • You won'tfool us, you parasite.†   (source)
  • The mystic parasites who have, throughout the ages, reviled the traders and held them in contempt, while honoring the beggars and the looters, have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread-a man of justice.†   (source)
  • You'll still be a parasite, kid.†   (source)
  • Your code declares that the rational man must sacrifice himself to the irrational, the independent man to parasites, the honest man to the dishonest, the man of justice to the unjust, the productive man to thieving loafers, the man of integrity to compromising knaves, the man of self-esteem to sniveling neurotics.†   (source)
  • You're not a parasite.†   (source)
  • Just as the parasites around me were proclaiming their helpless dependence on my mind and were expecting me voluntarily to accept a slavery they had no power to enforce, just as they were counting on my self-immolation to provide them with the means of their plan-so throughout the world and throughout men's history, in every version and form, from the extortions of loafing relatives to the atrocities of collectivized countries, it is the good, the able, the men of reason, who act as…†   (source)
  • …double standard: it is immoral to live by your own effort, but moral to live by the effort of others-it is immoral to consume your own product, but moral to consume the products of others-it is immoral to earn, but moral to mooch-it is the parasites who are the moral justification for the existence of the producers, but the existence of the parasites is an end in itself-it is evil to profit by achievement, but good to profit by sacrifice-it is evil to create your own happiness, but…†   (source)
  • For the parasite.†   (source)
  • The parasite!†   (source)
  • I looked past the profits of the moment, and I saw that the harder I worked, the more I tightened the noose around my throat, I saw that my energy was being poured down a sewer, that the parasites who fed on me were being fed upon in their turn, that they were caught in their own trap-and that there was no reason for it, no answer known to anyone, that the sewer pipes of the world, draining its productive blood, led into some dank fog nobody had dared to pierce, while people merely…†   (source)
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