Which preposition to use with wasp
Suppose a great hollow tree, in which the formidable wasps of the tropics have built for ages.
Wasps in a Garden. (?)
At last he became desperate, and crying, "Kill you I will, even at the cost of my own life," he laid his head with the Wasp on it under the wheel of a passing waggon, and they both perished together.
Paper-nests, too, more like those of our tree-wasps at home, hang from the trees in the woods.
The natives are attracted to the spot, like ants to a heap of grain, or wasps to an old sugar barrel; they seem to spring out of the earth, so rapidly do they make their appearance.
Then he murdered a wasp with his knifea horrible habit at meals, but one practised by many returned soldiers, who kill all too readily.
' 'Strike him not, Jenny,' Doris cries, 'Nor murder wasps like vulgar flies: 40 For though he's free (to do him right)
Who, for instance, ever succeeded in frowning away a mosquito, or in pacifying an angry wasp by a smile?
What sort of models, then, were these insane, mud-moulding solitary wasps for a tall lad to follow after?
As thus in indolence she lies, A giddy wasp around her flies.