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d43b2d4
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"I excel at pulling strings!" said Arachne. "I'm a spider!"
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pulling-strings
arachne
spiders
heroes-of-olympus
percy-jackson-and-the-olympians
the-mark-of-athena
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Rick Riordan |
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50a6164
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"Marvelous," she said. "Tell me about this tapestry." Arachne's lips curled over her mandibles. "Why do you care? You're about to die." "Well, yes," Annabeth said. "But the way you captured the light is amazing. Did you use real gold thread for the sunbeams?"
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arachne
spiders
weaving
flattery
trickery
heroes-of-olympus
percy-jackson-and-the-olympians
the-mark-of-athena
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Rick Riordan |
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aee72c6
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I take my hat off to you -- or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.
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humor
spiders
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J.K. Rowling |
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6c5ae78
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"Imperio!" Moody jerked his wand, and the spider rose onto two of its hind legs and went into what was unmistakably a tap dance. Everyone was laughing -- everyone except Moody. "Think it's funny, do you?" he growled. "You'd like it, would you, if I did it to you?" The laughter died away almost instantly."
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mad-eye-moody
tap-dance
spiders
spells
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J.K. Rowling |
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3912bd9
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If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they'd have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That'd lead 'em right! That's all I'm sayin'.
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spiders
humorous-quotations
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J.K. Rowling |
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1c61bde
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Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them.
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spider-bites
spiders
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Neil Gaiman |
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e2ee2f8
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No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.
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spiders
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Bill Bryson |
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bf3bf95
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Like delicate lace, So the threads intertwine, Oh, gossamer web Of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace Wild nature produces... Ughh, look at the spider Suck out that bug's juices!
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poetry
spiders
spiderweb
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Bill Watterson |
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50f504f
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They made for his noise far quicker than he had expected. They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever like being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course, is insulting to anybody.
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tolkien
humour
spiders
insults-and-slander
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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b0b823a
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They moved from the drawing room to a dining room on the ground floor where they found spiders large as saucers lurking in the dresser (Ron left the room hurriedly to make a cup of tea and did not return for an hour and a half)
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spiders
ron-weasley
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J.K. Rowling |
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1dd1c69
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"Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human. "I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that," he said desperately. "But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked." "What's wrong with being natural?" he demanded. "Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all."
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spiders
morals
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Piers Anthony |