"Musquito" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... paragraph from a newspaper. Persons who make much use of musquito curtains, will be glad to read it. "'The Repertoire de Chimie Pure et Appliquee' publishes the following remarks by the celebrated chemists, MM. D|bereiner and Oesner, on the various methods for rendering stuffs incombustible, ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... in some danger of suffocation, and it was only by an occasional feeble struggle under the cloth, that I was apprised of the existence of a living creature beneath it. Evidently this cover was necessary, for I saw a huge musquito—the summer pest of the North—settle repeatedly upon it, as though longing to suck the blood of the innocent ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various |
