| I approached it again, this time dimpling the water with a stick, and the strider burst into a long run of skips like a skimming stone. |
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| When a female water strider has mated, she rejects all subsequent males, both high and low quality. |
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| The light from above distorts in the concavities formed at the points on which the strider rests. |
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| A male water strider can dislodge the sperm of the previous male and thus tries to mate with many females. |
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| Importantly, sexual selection favors apterous males in several natural populations of a water strider species. |
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| Level up a baby pet into a superior companion, or travel in style with a rideable wolf or strider pet. |
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| Viggo Mortensen doesn't fit my own mental image of strider, but soon won me over all the same. |
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| Watch a water strider skitter about in staccato bursts, its middle pair of legs doing the rowing and the hind legs steering, its short forelegs ready for catching prey. |
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| Some aquatic insects such as the water strider rely on surface tension to walk on water. |
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| I can't fall back into unconsciousness, like a water strider held aloft on the surface tension of her beautiful stillness. |
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| The Defender Snake is an anti-tank strider designed to have great mobility and mind blowing range. |
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| The same tension allows a water strider to skim the surface of a pond in the macroworld. |
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| Brownie tells her that he swallowed a water strider, but she ignores him. |
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| I was afraid of bringing a water strider up to my lips. |
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| She comes on foot and aboard her combat strider Babylon Zero. |
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| He is a coauthor with Sih of a widely cited 2005 paper on water strider groups. |
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| Some insects, like the water strider, can actually walk on water because their weight doesn't break through this skin of surface tension. |
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| Trying to get all he knows into print means that the author sometimes skips over the surface like a water strider instead of diving deep and exploring the layers. |
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| The water strider is an insect that skates across water at high speed. |
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| Each animal-from the water strider to the loggerhead turtle-teaches the water bottle about itself, its origins, its journey, and those of other pollutants in the watershed. |
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| For the study, Miriam Goldstein and colleagues from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, monitored the Pacific pelagic water strider. |
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| On the far left is Lisa, and Art and Luke Stowe with the Irish wolf hound Strider and their boxer Luke. |
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| And the overall championship winner will represent Great Britain in the Strider World Championships in Florida. |
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| From a short brisk walk to a marathon run, get fit in the comfort of your own home and at your own pace with the Total Strider treadmill. |
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| They had to navigate themselves to different checkpoints surrounding the school and collect tokens featuring Strider, the Walk to School mascot. |
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| From SureFire and Strider Knives, this collaboration offers a matched serial number, limited edition tactical flashlight and knife combination. |
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| When we first meet Strider the Ranger in the finished work in Book I, Chapters 9 and 10, he certainly seems a suspicious character. |
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| The Hobbits reach the town of Bree, where they encounter a Ranger named Strider, whom Gandalf had mentioned in a letter. |
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| Strider fights them off with fire and leads the hobbits towards the Elven refuge of Rivendell. |
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| The Strider variants of the Red Storm architecture can only scale down to a teraflops or so, which left a big opening for OctigaBay to chase and Cray to miss. |
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| Strider persuades the hobbits to take him on as their guide and protector. |
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