670 examples of mosquito in sentences

snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass; serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda^. canker-worm, wire-worm; locust, Colorado beetle; alacran^, alligator, caymon^, crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus; torpedo; bane &c 663. cutthroat &c (killer) 461.

" A mosquito stung her on the neck, and she daubed the unprotected spot with wet clay from a ball she had convenient to hand.

It was pleasant enough, mosquito canopies keeping away the pests that are said to cause malaria and yellow fever, among other things.

The heat was intolerable, and a tremendous invasion by the little pests, who were not retarded by fly screens or mosquito bars, drove the legislators almost frantic, and caused them to append their signatures to the document with almost indecent haste.

The only approximation to it is in the phosphorescent waters of the Mosquito Indian coast.

The numbers I had brought to their assistance were nothing compared to the influence of the sight of the poor, frayed and dirty Union Jack that floated from my Headquarters, and the songs of the Tommies round the mosquito fires in the bivouac at night.

I asked timidly whether I should require mosquito nets, and well remember the scorn with which the Chief of Staff greeted my question.

Why, she's got the build of a sagebrush mosquito!

Sheila had got out and was adding her mosquito weight to Thatcher's on the upper side, half-walking, half-hanging to the wagon.

In a corner of the lower floor of the barn they found the calf, lying upon a bed of hay, and covered by a large piece of mosquito netting, which Miriam had fastened above and around him.

Then perceiving that they had forgotten him, and were going away without even arranging his mosquito net for the night, he slowly turned his clouded visual organ in their direction, and composed himself to rest.

" "If you are going to the barn, doctor," cried Miriam, seizing her hat, "I will go with you and put the mosquito net over my calf, which I entirely forgot to do.

But if ever you do smell smoke in the night, you'll draw your bolt the first thing, won't you?" This evening,upon which we have offered you your pass, reader,Miss Craydocke is sitting with her mosquito bar up, and her candle alight, finishing some pretty thing that daylight has not been long enough for.

"You might tie up a branch with mosquito-netting," she said. "Isn't that bright?

They had improvised a pretty bit of scenery at the back, with a few sticks, some paint, brown carpet-paper, and a couple of mosquito bars; a Dutch gable with a lattice window, vines trained up over it, and bushes below.

The case of the drowsy mosquito.

Holroyd was roused from meditations that were becoming sinister by the hum of a mosquito.

Drain the swamp, and you get rid of the malaria, for there is no longer any place for the malaria-bearing mosquito to breed.

Dewey assisted Aguinaldo by destroying the main Spanish fleet; by bringing him and his associates back to the Philippines; by furnishing them arms and ammunition; by blockading Manila and by keeping at a safe distance the Spanish mosquito fleet, which would have made dangerous, or impossible, the landing of the arms subsequently imported by the Insurgents.

After securing some observations for latitude under Station Peak in the early part of the night, we proceeded further down the river, delighted to escape from that mosquito-haunted neighbourhood.

The gnat-bites and mosquito buzzings are sometimes harder to bear than an operation with a surgeon's knife.

Jack tells me he is garbed in a long white robe effect (I hope he won't grow wings), with a good-sized mosquito net on a frame over his head and face.

That one plane should, unaided, drive on at Nissr's huge, rushing bulk, seemed as preposterous as a mosquito trying to lance a rhinoceros.

I reminded him mildly that according to Waltonold Isaacevery misery we missed was a new mercy, and that, consequently, he ought to be thankful for every mosquito that didn't bite him.

A mosquito is the child of black and white parents.

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