Mantis Sentence Examples

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  • A Mantis leasing program?

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  • How long does a Praying Mantis live, anyway?

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  • The chief being among the supernatural characters of Bushman mythology is the insect called the Mantis.'

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  • Cagn or Ikaggen, the Mantis, is sometimes regarded with religious respect as African a benevolent god.

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  • Of the 350 known species of mantis shrimps only two are found in British waters.

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  • Lady beetles and praying mantis are both beneficial to your organic garden.

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  • When they get infested with aphids, do we think about their enemy, the praying mantis?

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  • On the west coast the " ananzi " or spider takes the place of the mantis insect among the Bushmen.

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  • According to Qing, creation was the work of Cagn (the mantis insect), " he gave orders and caused all things to appear."

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  • From thiscurious habitation the young mantids hang by threads till after their first moult (see Mantis).

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  • If we are to regard the Egyptian myths about the gods in animal shape, and about the non-natural superhuman heroes, and their wars and loves, as esoteric allegories devised by civilized priests, perhaps we should also explain Pund-jel, Qat, Quawteaht, the Mantis god, the Spider creator, the Coyote and Raven gods as priestly inventions, put forth in a civilized age, and retained by Australians, Bushmen, Hottentots, Ahts, Thlinkeets, Papuans, who preserve no other vestiges of high civilization.

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  • Attract and protect aphid predators such as ladybugs, lacewings, assassin bugs, praying mantis, adult wasps, spiders and chickadees.

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  • Take a walk on the beach in one of the fun colors such as Tangerine, Miami or Praying Mantis or stick to a basic color such as white.

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  • Breeders sell ladybugs and praying mantis as natural bug predators.

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  • Mantis (Ruins Boss)-Get as close as you can and shoot the underside.

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  • If you have the Photon MG, use it because it stops Mantis for a bit.

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  • It comes in graphite and tropic pink or white and mantis, a minty green.

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  • In one of the early interviews for the show, she calls herself a "praying mantis" when referring to her male relationships.

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  • On the moors in late summer the mantis (kama-kiri-niushi) is commonly met with, and the cricket (kurogi) and the cockroach, abound.

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  • The Mantis made an eland out of the shoe of his son-in-law.

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  • The moon was also created by the Mantis out of his shoe, and it is red, because the shoe was covered with the red dust of Bushman-land.

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  • The Mantis is defeated in an encounter with a cat which happened to be singing a song about a lynx.

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  • The Mantis (like Poseidon, Hades, Metis and other Greek gods)was once swallowed, but disgorged alive.

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  • But the Bushmen's mythical theory of the origin of things must, as far as possible, be kept apart from the fables of the Mantis, the Ichneumon and other divine beings.

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  • Among the lowest races the culture-hero commonly wears a bestial guise, is a spider (Melanesia), an eagle hawk (in some myths and south-east Australia), a coyote (north-west America), a dog or raven (Thlinkeet), a mantis insect (Bushman), and so forth, yet is endowed with human or even super-human qualities, and often shades off into a permanent and practically deathless god.

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  • Still think she should have let the preying mantis have him.

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  • Like Heracles when he leaped into the belly of the monster which was about to swallow Hesione, the Mantis once jumped down the throat of a hostile elephant, and so destroyed him.

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  • Yehl's powers of metamorphosis and of flying into the air are the common accomplishments of sorcerers, and he is a rather crude form of first father, " culture-hero " and creator.2 Among the Karok Indians we find the great hero and divine benefactor in the shape of, not a raven, nor an eagle-hawk, nor a mantis insect, nor a spider, but a coyote.

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