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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And there, just in front of this cave, lifeless and on its back, lay a young porcupine .
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But this porcupine had no scratch on its belly; it had been attacked at the front end instead.
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Here the spikes can become enormous quills - those of the great crested porcupine are as long as 20 inches.
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One of the stars of Jane's collection was this porcupine fish, which probably came from the Tropics.
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Or the do-probe-me inaccessibility of a porcupine .
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Puffers Closely related to the porcupine fish are the puffers.
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Some describe it as a red-eyed E. look-alike with porcupine quills running down his spine.
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Where he had touched her her scalp was prickling like a porcupine .