14 Words to use with wasp

If he, the savage, were a king, he would not work for his bread, but sit at home and make others feed him; and so, no doubt, does the wasp-king.

This, I say, would be the culminating point of the wasp-worship, which had sprung up out of bodily fear of being stung.

The object of the modern wasp waist (in the minds of the class of females who, strange to say, are allowed by respectable women to set the fashion for them) is to grossly exaggerate the bust and the hips, and it is for the same reason that barbarian and Oriental girls are fattened for the marriage market.

Cherrie told us of finding such a colony built round a big wasp-nest, several feet in diameter.

Instead of being crowned at Westminster, the daughter of Henry I fled in terror; for "the whole city flew to arms at the ringing of the bells, which was the signal for war, and all with one accord rose upon the Countess [of Anjou] and her adherents, as swarms of wasps issue from their hives.

The wasp-men might be conquered, and possibly eaten, by a stronger tribe than themselves.

If we open the uppermost chamber, we shall find every vestige of the spiders gone, and the cavity filled (and, strange to say, exactly filled) by a brown- coated wasp-pupa, enveloped in a fine silken shroud.

Many years after I was forcibly reminded of him by a pretty group of a little Cupid flying to his mother to show a wasp-sting he had just received.

And so ends my true myth of the wasp-tree.

But more: the survivors of the conquest might, perhaps, escape, and carry their wasp-fetish into a new land.

Fortunately, on the only occasion that the tent blew down when we were present, it was not a good wasp year.

The wasp-gods would be forgotten; probably smoked out as sacrilegious intruders.

If boys take the nest they may be stung: the fish like the wasp-grubs."

They went up a little path of white sand through the pine-wood and halted presently within sight of the wasp-holes.

14 Words to use with  wasp