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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And, little by little, the utterly unprecedented thought began buzzing around my cortex, like a gnat in a jar.
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As was suggested in argument, that would indeed be to swallow the elephant and strain at the gnat .
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In five hours she'd be marking Miguel O'Brien - a gnat trying to curb an elephant.
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Milk, sticky and sour on her dress, attracted every small flying thing from gnats to grasshoppers.
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The heat and the gnats were the next burden.
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The last two weeks had been damp and little gnats thickened the air like a living dust.
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Vanessa could shoot the eye out of a gnat at fifty paces.