They were all gnats on the back of the elephant that was Yahoo!

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That said, those are minor quibbles the proverbial gnats compared to the camels that comprise the real substance of a book.

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Anti-Imperialists search for the small gnats of Israeli mistreatments of Palestinians while they swallow the camels of anti-Israeli terrorism from the Palestinians.

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Repellent only helps so much as flies, gnats, mosquitoes and gigantic brown moths the size of a fist buzzed around our heads.

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So now, I spend a large portions of my free time watching praying mantids molt, hummingbirds catch gnats over the compost pile, monarch caterpillars munch away the milkweed.

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