1405 examples of ants in sentences

This task, beyond the power of Psyche, was accomplished by the ants which came to her aid, and thus she conquered the task set by her cruel mother-in-law.

The airs and streams renew their joyous tone; The ants, the bees, the swallows, re-appear; Fresh leaves and flowers deck the dead Seasons' bier; 5 The amorous birds now pair in every brake, And build their mossy homes in field and brere; And the green lizard and the golden snake, Like unimprisoned flames, out of their trance awake.

How hard this is to reconcile with what Mr. Laing ascribes to dogs and ants elsewhere, or with what he says on page 173, "These higher apes remain creatures of very considerable intelligence....

[The old fallacy of metaphors adverted to in relation to ants and dogs.]

'Tis a simple proposition, after all, that ten times one is ten; and the bees, the ants, the grosbeaks, and the beavers prove it so clearly that any one of us may read, though we pass by never so quickly.

Awake, I glared upon a page where the words ran crazily about like a disrupted colony of ants.

He saw them, like great armies of white or red ants, creeping over the land, devouring all that was beautiful in it, or ancient, or redolent of grandeur.

The stars were clustered chiefly near the fire, and were less like stars than spots of the phosphorescent wood that are scattered on the ground when one knocks a rotten stump about to lick up its swarms of wood-ants.

He pulled out a little bottle of garnets, got by glancing over the rubbish laid about their hills by the desert ants; he thrust it back into his wallet and produced another bottle with a small quantity of gold-dust, also gathered at the rare times when he was not sleepy, and the sheep did not need driving, watering, stoning, or reviling.

We must set aside a great deal of it for the ants and flies, who will help themselves in spite of us.

The ants, too, carry it off in loads larger, if not heavier, than themselves.

Did she think those little ants knew that they were alive?

Vinegar Made From Black Ants.

There'll be quarts of sass'parilla; yes, and "lemmo" in a tub; There'll be ice-creamit's vernillaand all kinds of fancy grub; And they're sure ter spread the table on the ground beside the spring, So's the ants and hoppergrasses can just waltz on everything.

I dozed until the ants found me out, when, unable to lie quiet under the formication, I got up and passed hours walking up and down till I was so tired that I almost fell asleep walking; then I lay down again and slept for an hour, but the cold and the ants awoke me again, and I spent the rest of the night by the camp-fire.

I dozed until the ants found me out, when, unable to lie quiet under the formication, I got up and passed hours walking up and down till I was so tired that I almost fell asleep walking; then I lay down again and slept for an hour, but the cold and the ants awoke me again, and I spent the rest of the night by the camp-fire.

Folk means people; a folk, a people: as, "The ants are a people

At this camp the carregadores ants completely devoured the doctor's undershirt, and ate holes in his mosquito-net; and they also ate the strap of Lyra's gun-case.

Now while bursting through a tangle I disturbed a nest of wasps, whose resentment was active; now I heedlessly stepped among the outliers of a small party of the carnivorous foraging ants; now, grasping a branch as I stumbled, I shook down a shower of fire- ants; and among all these my attention was particularly arrested by the bite of one of the giant ants, which stung like a hornet, so that I felt it for three hours.

(Little blue book, no. 885) © 18Jun25, A867112. R111283, 23Apr53, Haldeman-Julius Co. (PWH) Life among the ants.

SEE De Ford, Miriam Allen. Life among the ants.

(Little blue book, no. 885) © 18Jun25, A867112. R111283, 23Apr53, Haldeman-Julius Co. (PWH) Life among the ants.

This food consists of insectsdifferent kinds of flies, ants, and grasshoppers, which disappear or die as the air grows cold.

Ants are susceptible to lights and colors unseen to our limited eyes.

As Nissr drew in to land, the Beni Harb grew visible to the naked eye, like a swarm of ants on the desert rim.

1405 examples of  ants  in sentences