"Imagine the limpet is the antelope of the undersea Serengeti, grazing majestically on algae," he intones, bouncing the shell along. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
He said the landmines would have had to be detonated by smaller adhesive "limpet" mines, triggered by a timing device. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Over all was scattered a vast heap of limpet-shells. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
"You mean the limpet shells?" asked Max, looking up. From Wordnik.com. [The Spanish Chest] Reference
The limpet grabbed my hand and put it over her face. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Truth]
The limpet looked at the dog and reached out tentatively. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Truth]
The three activists were blown apart with a limpet mine on. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Two or three sharp limpet shells waved feathery seaweed fans. From Wordnik.com. [The Spanish Chest] Reference
Moors, and there set to drain the pool with a leaky limpet-shell. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
He also testified he prepared a 1kg SPM limpet mine for the August. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The skeleton was covered and surrounded by a mass of limpet-shells. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
To derail this wretched locomotive, she concentrated on the limpet. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Truth]
Pool, supposed to be bottomless, with a small perforated limpet shell. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
Rand Easter Show limpet mine blast, and have arrested an 11th suspect. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Police allege the three died while priming the limpet mines to go off. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Timed limpet mines were placed underneath vehicles at the two hostels. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
She clung to Annais and finally had to be prised off like a limpet from a rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
The two died outside the Athlone Magistrate's Court while priming a limpet mine. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Whaup was not oblivious of his promise, and Strachan clove unto him like a limpet. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
And what is the magical significance of the limpet-shells, which cover them and him alike?. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
There were baskets of burnt limpet shells and lime, used in washing as substitutes for soap. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Pam hung on to Dillon's arm like a limpet and chattered away, laughing gaily every now and then. From Wordnik.com. [A Baby For Emily]
I would not describe Claire as human glue, though she had the tenacity of a limpet when necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay] Reference
The limpet mines we use are never simply limpet mines, but are either of Soviet or communist origin. From Wordnik.com. [CANON COLLINS MEMORIAL LECTURE, LONDON, MAY 28, 1987] Reference
It flips upside down, and guess what's stuck to the bottom, a little limpet of plastique ready to explode. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
After all, they had vacationed with Pasha in Saint-Tropez when a limpet mine was discovered on his Jet Ski. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
His infatuation with the limpet-like creature is visible in the pattern of the chandeliers at Nobu 57 in New York. From Wordnik.com. [Abalone delicious] Reference
Vorster Square, the headquarters of the hated security police, has reverberated from the explosion of the limpet mine. From Wordnik.com. [UMKHONTO WE SIZWE - BORN OF THE PEOPLE"] Reference
So she attached herself to Mother with the tenacity of a limpet, never moving more than a couple of feet away at the most. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
His infatuation with the limpet-like creature is visible in the pattern of the chandeliers at Nobu 57 in midtown Manhattan. From Wordnik.com. [A New Shell Game] Reference
So the task appointed him was to empty out Dozmary Pool, a gloomy lake on the Bodmin Moors, with a limpet-shell with a hole in it. From Wordnik.com. [Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway.] Reference
Regardless of whether it was anger at a deity or the removal of an oversized limpet from her diaphragm, Anna was glad to see it. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Truth]
East Rand members of Cosas were given hand grenades and a limpet mine of which timing mechanisms had been reduced to zero seconds. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Immediately the demons were on his track, chasing him so closely that he could not stay to dip his limpet-shell in the foaming water. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Today I was walking with Beth attached to my chest like some super cute limpet when two beautiful red and green birds flew over head. From Wordnik.com. [cbrimble Diary Entry] Reference
Last night there was no sign whatsoever of the limpet-like Ms Alexander "considering her position" - the normal euphemism for resignation. From Wordnik.com. [Referendum-gate: the fallout] Reference
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