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    Is it the strange gnashing sound of insects with their mandibles moving through the bone marrow?†  (source)
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    Except scarab beetles didn't have the big cutting mandibles.†  (source)
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    Clinging to his chest, it spread its mandibles wide so that their razor tips were poised on either side of his throat.†  (source)
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    There are grasshoppers, spruce budworms, forest tent caterpillars, wood-boring beetles, each one the size of a page, their parts neatly labeled: mandibles, palps, antennae, thorax, abdomen.†  (source)
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    In the upper and lower mandibles.†  (source)
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    Its tiny mouth opened, and she saw that it had sharp cutting mandibles behind its upper and lower lips.†  (source)
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    The ants were still there; their wispy antennae weaving from side to side like the arms of so many punch-drunk boxers; their mandibles were open wide, eager to bite again.†  (source)
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    There were orange traffic cones and beautiful lapis lazuli insects with mandibles of gold.†  (source)
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    I think the horn—covered mandibles of one of these squid are entangled in the blades.†  (source)
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    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 recalled to Swann, a fervent admirer of Giotto's Vices and Virtues at Padua, that Injustice by whose side a leafy bough evokes the idea of the forests that enshroud his secret lair.†  (source)
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    Now black mandibles protruded from her mouth like tusks.†  (source)
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    Elbowed antennae trembled, mandibles clicked, and they began marching along the edge in an orderly clockwise procession.†  (source)
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    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)
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