Following an argument with a local man, Ant marched into a Camden pub intending to confront him, but was laughed at; he stormed out, returned with a second world war pistol, hurled a car alternator through the pub window, threatened to shoot, and then fled, before being arrested by armed police, bailed and promptly sectioned in a secure psychiatric ward.
If you call or text a particular number, a robot will explain that your hopes and dreams of a long, loving and meaningful relationship have been crushed mercilessly like an ant marching across a kitchen counter.
Mockingbirds sing, ants march, and the sky drops marbles on Case's characters.
Possessed ants march to their death, and the fungus lives inside the exoskeleton.
And yes, the Dave Matthews Band closes with a long version of "Ants Marching".
Butterflies dance an insouciant foxtrot and tango; bohemian dung beetles lament lost time; worker ants march in totalitarian lockstep.
"We've been tested over again, with strikes and storms and snow, and we are like ants marching," Mr. Crandall said.
(Or, if we're very lucky, eat one another: Argentine fire ants, marching north from Alabama, have feasted on Japanese beetles, marching south).
If you have ever observed ants marching in and out of a nest, you might have been reminded of a highway buzzing with traffic.
Here the ground gives way, leaves cover her face, ants march across her back, and she smells her burning flesh, rotting bones, decay, and runs away.
In 1921, the explorer and naturalist William Beebe described running across a colony of army ants marching in a quarter-mile-long circle through the Guyanese jungle.
