The dangerous ones, she says, are half the size of the tiny brown multi-legged ticks she tosses into the toilet bowl.

Even in that tiny tick of time, he was able to consider them one by one: Picard.

River bugs, Willie had explained, tiny little ticks called arradores.

He brushed the tiny brown ticks off the dog, and they ran on and on, the ewe leaping ahead and kicking up her heels.

The tiny ticks seemed louder than firecrackers, but there wasn't anything they could do but grit their teeth and pray Marvel was tuckered out from all his crimes.

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by tiny ticks that are usually carried by deer and mice.

Only a tiny tick at the corner of Aboud's eye betrayed any internal feeling.

Examined under bifocals, this proved to be not a spot, but a living organism: a tiny, tiny tick.

In 1922 the United States had prohibited the import of foreign bees because they were bringing with them a tiny eight-legged tick called the Acarine mite.

She listened close and heard its tiny tick, but it didn't sound much like a grand piano.