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giraffe
1. a buffalo, a giraffe, and the words came, “Celebration of Life” and the thought that when she passes she wants a celebration
2. African elephant), the tallest animal (the giraffe) and the
3. giraffe and a diversity of
4. Feeling helpless, the elephant with his big trunk and the giraffe with his long neck watch the flames in dismay
5. A few more came out; one was a giraffe, a whale,
6. He glimpsed a giraffe, neck and head, coming to a
7. Any fool need only look at an elephant, giraffe, rhinoceros, race horse or other herbivore to realize that eating the flesh of another isn’t necessary to robust health
8. ‘Is that a giraffe over there?’ said Jim
9. He waved her on, and she stomped inside with her long legs and expensive high heels, like an angry giraffe at the Oscars
10. A dog eared elephant, a giraffe that’s neck that had been hugged into a limp submission, a balding lion whose mane had
11. In the end, Michael caved and bought the giraffe
12. Pal looked down at his giraffe
13. The thing that is as tall as a giraffe with the green skin and the pitch-black eyes has found where she has hidden and now leans forward with its back hunched and its neck elongated to the point where it seems as though it is a piece of putty that has been stretched to all infinity
14. Though she knows she is a vast distance away from where she has abandoned the bodies of the little girls in nondescript clothing and the thing that looked like a giraffe she can still see, in the distance, the police car’s eyes radiating their light across the road
15. No longer will she have to sleep under cover of darkness, afraid of things with red eyes, the one of many colors, the things that sparkled like a million pearls or the thing that looked like a giraffe, nor will she have to worry about visions of horror that could destroy her mind, heart, body and soul
16. This notion has encompassed many a moment within the world known as Wraethworld—when, while making her way toward the hills, Mary began to falter; when in the dark forest she continued forward; and when, while facing the police officer who turned into the thing that looked like a giraffe, she conjured within herself a dream
17. Certain examples that he quoted were the long neck of the giraffe, which
18. appeared to become longer and longer when the giraffe stretched higher and
19. Denver looked at him as if he were talking to a tree monkey and sent the vision to Oak who roared with laughter and sent him a vision of a large gangling giraffe trying to bend over to drink water, to which Denver gave a guffaw in return
20. stood in front of the giraffe cage for several minutes watching the animals, then finally the old man yanked on his grandson's arm and lead him away, Come on,
21. The stuffed giraffe was the head and neck, ending at the shoulder blades and mounted to stand on the floor like a strange, questionable hat rack with eyeballs
22. But then he remembered that I like terrible, old taxidermy and this giraffe seemed exactly like the kind of fucked-up thing I’d love, so he called and said, “There’s a guy here with a third of a dead giraffe in the back of his truck and it looks pretty messed up, so I thought of you
23. Victor overheard part of the conversation and told me that I could not have a giraffe because we had no place to put it,1 and I pointed out that it was only a third of a giraffe and that it was the most interesting third, so it was almost impossible to say no to
24. He argued that we had no way to get the giraffe to our house but I explained that I could pick it up from my parents’ home and put it in the passenger seat of our car
25. Victor disagreed because all of a sudden he knows everything about HOV regulations, but it didn’t really matter because my dad called back and said he couldn’t get a good deal on the giraffe head so he passed
26. Victor was relieved, but I reminded him that my father is a terrific liar so there was still a small possibility that he’d bought the giraffe stalk himself and was fixing it up for me as some sort of weird Christmas present
27. You never know when he’s hiding a giant surprise giraffe head from you
28. Truthfully, we don’t really have room for a giraffe head, but we do have an old, decorative English streetlight in our yard that needs replacing and I thought maybe I could put the giraffe head there and have him hold the handle of a hanging lantern in his mouth
29. ” He also pointed out that taxidermied animals rot in the rain so I made a note to ask my dad if he could drill a hole in the mouth so the giraffe could hold an umbrella over himself
30. Because nothing says “welcome” like a surprise umbrella-wielding giraffe head staring at you with laser beams for eyes
31. We went to Giraffe on the High Street, a place I loathe
32. President Obama recently hosted a Maker Faire at the White House, where a 17-foot robotic giraffe named Russell greeted him, and the president toured a tiny portable house and played a keyboard made of bananas
33. "That belonged to the giraffe
34. Secondly, is it possible that an animal having, for instance, the structure and habits of a bat, could have been formed by the modification of some other animal with widely different habits and structure? Can we believe that natural selection could produce, on the one hand, an organ of trifling importance, such as the tail of a giraffe, which serves as a fly-flapper, and, on the other hand, an organ so wonderful as the eye?
35. The tail of the giraffe looks like an artificially constructed fly-flapper; and it seems at first incredible that this could have been adapted for its present purpose by successive slight modifications, each better and better fitted, for so trifling an object as to drive away flies; yet we should pause before being too positive even in this case, for we know that the distribution and existence of cattle and other animals in South America absolutely depend on their power of resisting the attacks of insects: so that individuals which could by any means defend themselves from these small enemies, would be able to range into new pastures and thus gain a great advantage
36. The giraffe, by its lofty stature, much elongated neck, fore legs, head and tongue, has its whole frame beautifully adapted for browsing on the higher branches of trees
37. So under nature with the nascent giraffe, the individuals which were the highest browsers and were able during dearths to reach even an inch or two above the others, will often have been preserved; for they will have roamed over the whole country in search of food
38. But it will have been otherwise with the nascent giraffe, considering its probable habits of life; for those individuals which had some one part or several parts of their bodies rather more elongated than usual, would generally have survived
39. By this process long-continued, which exactly corresponds with what I have called unconscious selection by man, combined, no doubt, in a most important manner with the inherited effects of the increased use of parts, it seems to me almost certain that an ordinary hoofed quadruped might be converted into a giraffe
40. " But as the giraffe does actually exist in large numbers in Africa, and as some of the largest antelopes in the world, taller than an ox, abound there, why should we doubt that, as far as size is concerned, intermediate gradations could formerly have existed there, subjected as now to severe dearths
41. Assuredly the being able to reach, at each stage of increased size, to a supply of food, left untouched by the other hoofed quadrupeds of the country, would have been of some advantage to the nascent giraffe
42. Baker remarks, that no animal is more difficult to stalk than the giraffe
43. Whatever the causes may have been, we can see that certain districts and times would have been much more favourable than others for the development of so large a quadruped as the giraffe
44. With the giraffe, the continued preservation of the individuals of some extinct high-reaching ruminant, which had the longest necks, legs, etc
45. The similar framework of bones in the hand of a man, wing of a bat, fin of the porpoise, and leg of the horse—the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant—and innumerable other such facts, at once explain themselves on the theory of descent with slow and slight successive modifications
46. And never having been anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and the pagan harbors most frequented by whalemen; and having now led for many years the bold life of the fishery in the ships of owners uncommonly heedful of what manner of men they shipped; Daggoo retained all his barbaric virtues, and erect as a giraffe, moved about the decks in all the pomp of six feet five in his socks
47. On one occasion a herd of antelopes crossed the path as tamely as if they had been sheep, and tracks of giraffe and larger game were frequently seen
48. "By and by the path followed the bed of a narrow stream, which was completely ploughed with the tracks of buffalo and giraffe, as fresh as fresh could be
