14 Metaphors for worm

Blowsthat is, beating with a solid cudgelhe does not get in every age, as in the Homeric one; but his envy, his egotism, is the thorn which he has to carry in his flesh; and the undying worm that gnaws him is the tormenting consideration that his excellent views and vituperations remain absolutely without result in the world.

Worms are a constant source of trouble from the earliest days of puppy-hood, and no puppy suffering from them will thrive; every effort, therefore, should be made to get rid of them.

Whence he observes that "the worm JACOB was a threshing worm!" Another, that of Genesis xliv.

It was at one time imagined, and the idea is still popularly current, that worms were the occasion of a troublesome and lingering species of fever, which was therefore designated worm-fever.

Worms are the torment of some children: the symptoms are, an unnatural craving for food, even after a full meal; costiveness, suddenly followed by the reverse; fetid breath, a livid circle under the eyes, enlarged abdomen, and picking the nose; for which the remedies must be prescribed by the doctor.

Even for this, the worm that must forever lie gnawing in the heart of humanity, it would be consolation enough to pluck together the roses of youth; they had it in their own power to die while their odor was yet red.

[Illustration] The silk worm is a very valuable insect: it is produced from an egg of a yellowish colour, about the size of a small pin's head, that is laid by a moth, or butterfly.

"Each worm, and each insect, is a marvel of creative power.

I see that this worm is a railroad train.

Your worm is your onely Emperor for diet.

"O Adelifa, soul of mine, Rejoice, and murmur not, Up to the end be merry, When worms shall be thy lot.

"Judge Menzies of Boone county, Kentucky, an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and a slaveholder, told me that he knew some overseers in the tobacco growing region of Virginia, who, to make their slaves careful in picking the tobacco, that is taking the worms off; (you know what a loathsome thing the tobacco worm is) would make them eat some of the worms, and others who made them eat every worm they missed in picking.

"Worms are the worst enemy," and can be effectually destroyed only by hand.

But, in accomplishing the great undertaking that little ship-worm was his teacher.

14 Metaphors for  worm