33 Verbs to Use for the Word mosquito

In the evening, when the straight trunks cut against a blaze of gold and green, they sat by a smudge fire that kept off the mosquitoes and sang to an accompaniment of banjos and mandolins.

Don't you know that the great element of success in life, from killing a mosquito to winning an empress, is to strike at once, and at the right moment?

" "What will you do?" "Stay at home and fight mosquitoes.

The fragrant wood of the tree makes the fires which have to be kept up inside the huts even in summer to drive away the mosquitoes, and the people of those Northern regions would find it hard to get along without the useful birch.

To escape the mosquitoes, whose relentless persecution became almost unendurable, we rode on more briskly through a broad, level valley, filled with a dense growth of tall umbelliferous plants, trotted swiftly up a little hill, and rode at a thundering gallop into the village of Korak, amid the howling and barking of a hundred and fifty half-wild dogs, the neighing of horses, running to and fro of men, and a scene of general confusion.

There are many places where one only sees a mosquito for three months of the year, the soil is very fertile, and labour not only willing and efficient, but also very cheap.

" STEVE"The owner tells me that he has crossed the mosquitoes with the fish, and guarantees a bite every second.

Meanwhile Mr. Kitwater, for such was the name of the gentleman he had just left, had begun his preparations for the night, vigorously cursing the mosquitoes as he did so.

This kind o' thing would discourage even a mosquito.

If any one asks you why House People should love and protect Swallows, even if you have forgotten the names of many of the insects they destroy, remember to answer'Swallows eat mosquitoes!'" CHAPTER XV A BRILLIANT PAIR THE SCARLET TANAGER "That is my beautiful red bird!" cried Dodo, clapping her hands.

It was astonishing to find so few mosquitoes on these marshes.

Who, for instance, ever succeeded in frowning away a mosquito, or in pacifying an angry wasp by a smile?

Perhaps," she went on, "England has got some moral malarial mosquitoes and the scientists have not yet discovered the proper means for their annihilation.

And what did that bug do but grab the mosquito and throw him out of the window.

But they fly there no longer now, for our colonel, in a spasm of sanitation, cut down this graceful swaying clump of striped bamboos for the fear that they harboured mosquitoes.

They hate mosquitoes, and when they're tormented by them it's just as well to be careful about approaching them.

I do not hear the mosquito much as it flies about, but when it passes close by my ear I hear a "ping," the suddenness of which is very striking.

Unwilling to invite the merciless mosquitoes, they sat, while the gloaming settled into darkness, playing and singing melodies associated with other times.

Columella (I, 5, 6) indeed specifically mentions mosquitoes (infestis aculeis armata animalia) as one of the risks incident to living near a swamp.

"But before he took the train with you," murmured the mosquito to the butterfly, "when he said the General was going to take Irby upon his staff and give the battery to Kincaid, what did you talk of?" "Talk of?

But finally the breakfast was all gone, and the pigs had nothing more to do until dinner timethat is, all they had to do was to lie down and rest, or get up now and then to scratch a mosquito, or a fly bite.

Sterne's Uncle Toby, and that worthy uncle pronounced precisely the same words, while setting free a mosquito that annoyed him, but which he thought himself at liberty to thee and thou: 'Go, poor devil,' he said to it, 'the world is large enough to contain us, thee and me!'" "An honest man, that Uncle Toby!" replied Cousin Benedict.

" sang the mosquito, "and for a sister to push her boy brother into a battery under such a commander would be too much like murder!"

Old Mary, trying to smoke the mosquitoes out of her house with a charcoal-pan, set fire, in her shortsightedness, to the place; and everything was burnedthe savings of years, the precious Bible among the rest.

"It's too far," said one; "ye might as well try to snuff the nose o' a mosquito.

33 Verbs to Use for the Word  mosquito