"-ant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Tomorrow was Whitsunday. I wanted to have Service very early. 'That'll be all right,' he said. Soon he put our hurricane lamp out, but I was not to win sleep for quite a long while. In the early morning, moreover, something happened. Some red-ant skirmishers were about, and I had a hot time in my bed on the floor. I' might well have felt more grateful than I did feel. Yes, had I only known what battalions would have engaged me, had they decided to ...
— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps
... there are no stones of which ovens may be built, and where there are old white-ant hills, the natives commonly dig holes in the sides of the ant hills and use ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... Persian, Sansk. Pilu) and Arab. Fil, with the article Al-Fil, whence the Greek {Greek letters} the suffix—as being devoted to barbarous words as Obod-as (Al Ubayd), Aretas (Al-Haris), etc. Mr. Isaac Taylor (The Alphabet i. 169), preserves the old absurdity of "eleph-ant or ox-like (!) beast of Africa." Prof. Sayce finds the word al-ab (two distinct characters) in line 3, above the figure of an (Indian) elephant, on the black obelisk of Nimrod Mound, and suggests an ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... surrounded by walls made of a brown waxy-looking substance, along with about a dozen Coccidae to supply her with food. I suppose the eggs are removed as soon as laid, for I never found any along with the queen-ant. If the tree be shaken, the ants rush out in myriads, and search about for the molester. This case is not like the last one, where the tree has provided food and shelter for the ants, but rather one where the ant has ...
— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt |
