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Sentences starting with ants

Ants have considerable powers of intercommunication by means of their antennae, as shewn by Huber, who devotes a whole chapter to their language. [1]
Ants certainly communicate information to each other, and several unite for the same work, or for games of play. [1]

Sentences ending with ants

The French swarming round their guns seemed to him like ants. [2]
The story of one red ant is the story of all red ants. [6]
He did this now every few days --not out of malice--I am sure of that--it only seemed to amuse and interest him, just as a naturalist might be amused and interested by a collection of ants. [5]
The city is as busy as an ant-hill, and the hurly-burly of human life swarming along the web of narrow streets reminds one of the ants. [5]

Short sentences using ants

The ants were badly puzzled. [5]
The ants got at it. [5]

Sentences containing ants two or more times

Franklin's ants and Lubbuck's ants show fine capacities of putting this and that together in new and untried emergencies and deducting smart conclusions from the combinations--a man's mental process exactly. [5]
We know that ants and certain Lamellicorn beetles are capable of feeling an attachment for each other, and that ants recognise their fellows after an interval of several months. [1]

More example sentences with the word ants in them

A few ants were in this desert place, but merely to spend the summer. [5]
In due time we spread our blankets in the warm sand between two large boulders and soon feel asleep, careless of the procession of ants that passed in through rents in our clothing and explored our persons. [5]
Sir John Lubbock took ants from two different nests, made them drunk with whiskey and laid them, unconscious, by one of the nests, near some water. [5]
The storm raved through the halls and corridors; lightning and thunder raged fiercely overhead; and the terrified wretches, suddenly sobered, rushed about or huddled together, like ants whose nest has been upturned. [10]
Age after age the world labors for these things with the busy absorption of a colony of ants in its castle of sand. [4]
For a time the sober ants did as they had done at first--carried their friends home and threw the strangers overboard. [5]
Undoubtedly he disturbs the ants in their praiseworthy industry, much as his attentions may flatter them. [6]
In Palestine he tells of ants that came eleven miles to spend the summer in the desert and brought their provisions with them; yet he shows by his description of the country that the feat was an impossibility. [5]
The Indians have swarmed into Kentucky like red ants, I tell you. [9]
Through the streets soldiers in various uniforms walked or ran confusedly in different directions like ants from a ruined ant-hill. [2]
He tried several preventives; and ants rose superior to them. [5]
Even ants, as P. Huber (18. [1]
The millet-seed sifted out on one side--the ants told me that; the honey leaked out on the other--the flies told me that. [5]
For the evidence on this head, see Mr. J. Traherne Moggridge's most interesting work, 'Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders,' 1873, pp. [1]
Now a procession of ants appeared, from nowhere in particular, and went about their labors; one struggled manfully by with a dead spider five times as big as itself in its arms, and lugged it straight up a tree-trunk. [5]
Some of the most interesting facts ever published on the habits of ants are given by Mr. Belt, in his 'Naturalist in Nicaragua,' 1874. [1]
Those particular ants may be all that the naturalist paints them, but I am persuaded that the average ant is a sham. [5]
Still, while she looked around at the thousands who were encamped here, and gazed up at the temple where so many men were busied, like ants, it struck her that in fact all this belonged to one and was done for one alone. [10]
For instance, Pierre Huber, whose accuracy no one doubts, separated some ants, and when, after an interval of four months, they met others which had formerly belonged to the same community, they recognised and caressed one another with their antennae. [1]
From heaven a host of blue ants could be seen toiling in zigzags forward, ever forward, along the rude water-cuts and through the hills. [9]
A waiting carrion from her vantage point on high marked one spot then another where the blue ants disappeared, and again one by one came out of the burrow to hurry down the trench,--each with his ball of clay. [9]
Not by color, for painted ants were recognized. [5]
Not by smell, for ants that had been dipped in chloroform were recognized. [5]
Again, when two communities engage in a battle, the ants on the same side sometimes attack each other in the general confusion, but they soon perceive their mistake, and the one ant soothes the other. [1]
We meet with closely analogous facts with insects, for in ants the cerebral ganglia are of extraordinary dimensions, and in all the Hymenoptera these ganglia are many times larger than in the less intelligent orders, such as beetles. [1]
They came not by the entrance, but they swarmed elsewhere, as ants swarm upon a sandhill, upon the roofs, and at the little window where the lamp burns. [11]
Over the low bush fence, over the unfinished sand-bag parapet at the southwest salient, spread the shrieking enemy like ants, stabbing and cutting. [11]
The tallest man becomes a dwarf beside a rocky giant of the mountain chain, the smallest is a Titan to the swarming ants in the forest. [10]
The ground was as thick as ants with people, too--billions of them, I judge. [5]
Two communities of ants or bees are exactly alike in all their actions, so far as we can see. [6]
Not by speech and not by antennae signs nor contacts, for the drunken and motionless ants were recognized and the friend discriminated from the stranger. [5]
The ants were all of the same species, therefore the friends had to be recognized by form and feature--friends who formed part of a hive of five hundred thousand! [5]
Unquestionably the ants (if their means of expressing themselves were equal to their apparent intellectual ability) could teach him many things that he has overlooked and correct him in many mistakes. [6]

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