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Sentences ending with insect

And of deception too--do you see how nearly those dried leaves resemble an insect? [6]
In the first place, it may be observed that the colours of caterpillars do not stand in any close correlation with those of the mature insect. [1]
The trout-fly does not resemble any known species of insect. [4]
The hems of his mantle were all edged with rose-buds, and each was fastened in with an emerald that shone like some bright insect. [10]
He appeared on a stretched cable, far away above the sea of tossing hats and handkerchiefs, and in the glare of the hundreds of rockets that whizzed heavenward by him he looked like a wee insect. [5]

Sentences containing insect two or more times

In the living insect, whilst stridulating, this membrane can be seen to vibrate; and in the dead insect the proper sound is heard, if the muscle, when a little dried and hardened, is pulled with the point of a pin. [1]

More example sentences with the word insect in them

Well, how can you mistake that insect for dried leaves? [6]
Even the insect world was to be defended,--that had been too long neglected, and a society for the protection of ground-worms, slugs, and mosquitoes was to be incorporated without delay. [6]
Some summer insect, with no escape into the air, flew blindly to and fro, beating its body against the walls and ceiling, and filling the silent place with murmurs. [12]
The good Jain wipes off a seat before using it, lest he cause the death of-some valueless insect by sitting down on it. [5]
Presently my attention was drawn towards a very odd-looking insect on the mantelpiece. [6]
It was a still night, I remember, of great beauty, with a wisp of a moon hanging over the forest line, the air heavy with odors and vibrant with a thousand insect tones. [9]
With one quick squeeze of his fingers he put an end to the pretty little insect, and at that moment he heard voices behind him. [10]
Crack after crack sounded from the forest--from here and there and everywhere, it seemed--and with a song that like a hurtling insect ran the scale of notes, the bullets buried themselves in the trunk of our oak with a chug. [9]
It is the result of the puncture of an insect, and occurs chiefly in May. [10]
That is the question; for insect it is,--phyllum siccifolium, the "walking leaf," as some have called it.--The Master had a hearty laugh at my expense. [6]
The librarian "showed off"--running hither and thither with his arms full of books and making a deal of the splutter and fuss that insect authority delights in. [5]
The insect population of the world is not even catalogued yet, and a lifetime given to the scarabees is a small contribution enough to their study. [6]
The whole physiology of the nervous system, from the simplest manifestation of its power in an insect up to the supreme act of the human intelligence working through the brain, is full of the most difficult yet profoundly interesting questions. [3]
They remind me of an insect, but I could not mistake them for one. [6]
The viscous intelligence of a country-village is not easily stirred by the winds which ripple the fluent thought of great cities, but it holds every straw and entangles every insect that lights upon it. [6]
My favorite insect lives in this other case; she is at home, but in her private-chamber; you shall see her. [6]
The airs these little insect Governments put on are in the last degree ridiculous. [5]
What did I know of the insect and the flower, of the laws that moved the planets and made incandescent the suns? [9]
Maccaroni, being tubular, is the favorite habitat of a very dangerous insect, which is rendered peculiarly ferocious by being boiled. [6]
For him, poor insect as he was, a solitary flight by day, and a return at evening to his wingless mate! [6]
One parasitic Hymenopterous insect (Westwood, 'Modern Class. [1]
Nothing goes on in the skull of man, bird, fish, insect, or other creature which can be hidden from me. [5]
But the great image contemplated the dead ages as calmly as ever, unconscious of the small insect that was fretting at its jaw. [5]
The obedient Thomas gets hold of the insect, takes it to the window, and with the remark, "Your ladyship, it is pouring, the poor thing might take cold," brings it back again to the tea-tray. [10]
In Keilhau we found every variety of insect in central Germany, on the bushes and in the moss, the turf, the bark of trees, or on the flowers and blades of grass, and they were alive and allowed us to watch them. [10]
According to Mr. Doubleday, "the noise is produced by the insect raising itself on its legs as high as it can, and then striking its thorax five or six times, in rapid succession, against the substance upon which it is sitting. [1]
In some few cases their colours appear to be directly protective: thus Prof. Hoffmann informs me that he could hardly distinguish a small pink and green species from the buds on the trunks of lime-trees, which this insect frequents. [1]
The crawling insect, Buckner, who edits the Hurrah, is braying about his business with his customary imbecility, and imagining that he is talking sense. [5]

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