The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees. From Wordnik.com. [21 Amazing Facts About Nintendo] Reference
The hummer measured 2 inches and the mantis was about the same!. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
This praying mantis is a politician. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » The News of Bantu Mwaura’s death shocks Kenyan bloggers] Reference
The air smelled faintly of puppies and mantis sweat. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
The mantis-thing scuttled forward and she slashed at it. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
He turned three pairs of eyes toward the mantis creature. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
It had come in a ship jammed with hundreds of mantis pups. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Worse was the problem of static -- that was a mantis word. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
The mantis reared back and pounced, but Glory wasn't there. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
Azza bit down to immobilize the mantis, but she did not injure. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
The mantis rose up and shrieked a trilling, high-pitched alarm. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
Among the insects is one commonly known as the "praying" mantis. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Her bearing resembled that of a crane, her figure that of a mantis. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
He was standing around the travois, sniffing at the mantis-like body. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
The mantis sat head bowed; it held its tentacled paws across its eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Peregrine remembered how mantis-like the alien had seemed when upright. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
The officer had planted his feet, refusing to abandon the unconscious mantis. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
He leaned forward, his elbows on his knees, until he resembled a praying mantis. From Wordnik.com. [In a Strange City]
The mantis was developed into an ape, and certain apes became at length hairless. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
BARRY: I think he's a very strong candidate, but he may also be a praying mantis. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What's So Funny About Election 2000? - October 25, 2000] Reference
In many ways they were having more success with their mantis than Steel with his. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
The pack would believe anything he said ... and so, Steel hoped, would the mantis. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
The flat plains coughed a dry cough and the mantis-like machines creaked to a halt. From Wordnik.com. [Time to Rest] Reference
And not the source of the overpowering stench of mantis sweat that hung everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Next is a praying mantis, a foot long and with double-jointed arms like the beetles. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
I'm never going say praying mantis again, because, you know, it ticked everybody off. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What's So Funny About Election 2000? - October 25, 2000] Reference
A pair of heads looked down at the mantis, while another stared meaningfully at Steel. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
But with their dataset, several on Woodcarver's staff had already learned mantis talk. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
On a hunch, Chainer took his satchel from his waist and held it out at the mantis. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
The mantis-man stood over him, chittering in its incomprehensible insect language. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
The mantis-thing sprang after her, but Glory had room to manoeuvre and plenty of incentive. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
He began to run, but the mantis sprang into the air and landed well ahead of him on the path. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
His forward body was now nearly upright, like a mantis, but with stronger, more flexible arms. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
He hesitated, and in that moment noticed that the mantis wasn't trying to strike him any more. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
The mantis had a special horror for the tine attachments that soldiers wore on their forepaws. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Amdiranifani was using mantis words a lot, often unnecessarily: sister instead of brood-sibling. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
But John behaved like a male praying mantis: He was afraid of being with me, yet he was compelled. From Wordnik.com. [Why I Can't Be a Hare Krishna] Reference
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