...“What you propose is horrible, Chauvelin,” she said, drawing awayfrom him as from some noisome insect... 
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
... The insect crawled upward over thenut-brown cheek and stopped with its antennae brushing the lashes ofhis lower lid...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
...He lay belly-downward on the rock and crawled like an insect the remainder of the way...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...On its page a black insect crept...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...I here found an insect which preys on ants; it is about an inch and a quarter long, as thick as a crow-quill, and covered with black hair...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...But the lands both east and west of the Barotse valley are free from this insect plague...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...When feeding, it puts its head under the water to seize the insect at the bottom, then lifts it up quickly, making a rapid gobbling, as if swallowing a wriggling worm...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... When sleeping in the house of the commandant, an insect, well known in the southern country by the name Tampan, bit my foot...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The anxiety my friends at Tete manifested to keep my men out of the reach of the tampans of the village made it evident that they had seen cause to dread this insignificant insect...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... Before leaving, I had an opportunity of observing a curious insect, which inhabits trees of the fig family ('Ficus'), upward of twenty species of which are found here...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The reader will remember, in connection with this insect, the case of the ants already mentioned...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The bite of this insect does not affect the donkey as it does cattle...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...By the time the young insect is full grown and its wings completely developed, the food is done...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Almost every kind has its own peculiar insect, and when the rains are over very few seeds remain untouched...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...If this insect sang the feeblest note, it certainly did the most work, and inflicted the most injury...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...I made off towardsthem in the canoe, thinking - as I still do - they were some brand newkind of luminous insect...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...This terrible insect drove all before it...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...Another insect lights on theanimals, and when licked off bites the tongue, or breeds, and is fatalas well as tsetse: it is larger in size...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...For every vegetable-eating insect,native and foreign, we seem to have crops, trees and plant foodgalore; and their ravages rob the market-basket and the dinner-pail...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...In the year 1900, that insect caused to Indiana and Ohio alone the loss of 2,577,000 acres of wheat, and the total cost to us of that insect in that year "undoubtedly approached $100,000,000...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The downy woodpecker is therelentless enemy of the codling moth, an insect that annuallyinflicts upon our apple crop damages estimated by the experts of theU...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
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