And you can break a tarantula's heart by dropping it?. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
Here is a kind of fpider, called a tarantula, whofe bite is venomous j and the country is often vifited by locufts. From Wordnik.com. [The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland] Reference
We also have giant spiders called tarantula that can jump like nobody's business, but they aren't aggressive unless you corner them. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The name 'tarantula' was originated in the city of Toronto, Italy in the 14th century. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"I never saw a tarantula so quiet as that before.". From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
S. IRWIN: Let me get this tarantula out of my hand. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2001] Reference
KING: Is this is what is called the black tarantula?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2001] Reference
On the way the Kid offered a tale of a tarantula fight. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers] Reference
The tarantula, taken as a pet, was not a great success. From Wordnik.com. [Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor] Reference
KING: And it's important that the tarantula always be with us. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2001] Reference
KING: Is tarantula a type of spider, or all spiders tarantula?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2004] Reference
It looks like a tarantula sitting there and yet he's over there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009] Reference
The young man leaped to his feet as if a tarantula had bitten him. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
"I will give you this tarantula, Bill," he said with an air of bestowing. From Wordnik.com. [Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor] Reference
It is supposed to cure the bite of the tarantula, hence the furious tempo. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
One soldier found something in his plate that looked almost like a tarantula. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference
Sleeping on the soaking ground, the poisonous tarantula spiders crept over us. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
Mommy ate a tarantula, but is this the way to go for Blago, his wife and kids?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2009] Reference
This time the dog seemed to have lost his senses, or to have been bitten by a tarantula. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
S. IRWIN: We were in Arizona a couple months ago, we are driving along, and a tarantula. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2001] Reference
Rare poisonous reptiles, and tarantula spiders, most interesting to young observant naturalist. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890] Reference
If you get close enough to get bitten, if that tarantula had sunk its fangs in, it was my fault. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2001] Reference
I don't know how they do it, how they leave a perfect shell of a tarantula, and he lives over here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009] Reference
I amused myself in the morning with a fine specimen of a tarantula which I caught crawling up a tent. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
I now concluded that these spots marked the bite of a tarantula that must have gotten in my blankets at. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
As to the origin, habitat, and character of this tarantula I have never been afforded the least information. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
"When Aunt Dorothy saw a tarantula strolling round the table towards her the other day she nearly had a fit," said Peter. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
The natives of the island hold the old tradition of the ancients, that one bitten by a tarantula will dance himself to death. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
"Well, you wouldn't have liked to see a tarantula any better than the markings, and these at least are not poisonous," Bet retorted. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
During the eclipse the priests never cease to call upon their deities for aid against the mighty tarantula that is menacing the moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Jimmy stepped into the eight-eyed gaze of a Brazilian tarantula as vast to him as Jimmy was to the crucified angels at his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference
The trapdoor spider resembles the tarantula, by which name it is usually known in Cuba and Jamaica, but is somewhat smaller and commoner. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
This was the tarantula, a great hairy spider with a leg-spread covering the palm of the hand, another of the unpleasant inhabitants of El. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
And when they saw a young woman distraught over having to pick up a tarantula as part of an experiment, they volunteered to take her place. From Wordnik.com. [When Does Your Brain Stop Making New Neurons?] Reference
Neither the stings of the trapdoor spider nor true tarantula are usually dangerous although the wounds caused by the bites may heal slowly. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
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