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Like a cat stalking an ant, Woo starts climbing up a nearby tree— his eyes trained onto the insect.

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“Look at them all! They keep coming, like ants at a picnic. I want nothing to do with it, if you please,” she exclaimed, and waddled off to inspect her tulip garden once more.

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The servants streamed out from the house like ants to remove Lady Constance’s many floral-upholstered trunks from the carriage.

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Daddy would point out the moths, carpenter ants, and roly-poly bugs beneath the bark of dead logs.

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They’ll find another way to cross that stream, no matter how many ants it takes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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