The ant bug's hairs protect it from any death-throe bites or scrabbles by its victim. Today, ant bugs are extinct in the Western Hemisphere. Other ant predators found on the algarrobo tree ...
enacted a deadly game of cat-and-mouse that marked the final death throe of one of Africa’s first authentic liberation struggles. The British colonial government that ruled Kenya at the time ...
The subsequent death-throe spasms of the unfortunate animals created the impression that they were "kicking the bucket". The derivation is either from Old French buquet (a balance) or the fact ...
the water in the furnace may be under the pressure of nearer throe atmospheres, and therefore the heat will be proportionably increased. Fires from pipes for heating by hot water have been known ...
My dream of attending the Cheltenham Festival was dashed but I'm still excited about two South African live-wire competitors.
This was Burns's first attempt at writing a Pindaric Ode, a form established in English by Milton, Cowley, and Dryden and - as Gray had shown in The Bard - still a fresh and triumphant form. James ...
While the life beats in my bosom, Thou shalt mix in ilka throe: Turn again, thou lovely maiden, Ae sweet smile on me bestow. Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sinny noon; Not the ...
Isaiah Schafer is ranked #1 in the nation in the shot put. He won the meet in Waco with a throe of 18.91 meters, but that was nearly a full meter short of his best throw this season. He opened the ...
enacted a deadly game of cat-and-mouse that marked the final death throe of one of Africa’s first authentic liberation struggles. The British colonial government that ruled Kenya at the time ...