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Flowers, fruits, and insects were her favorite subjects, and were painted with rare delicacy.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTAs the animal's heavy feet plod over the ground, worms and insects come to the surface.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADEThe insects frequently hibernate in warmed houses, and may bite during the winter.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDHe listened to tales of the Igorrotes, who live in huts like beehives and creep into them like insects.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADEOn such a night all India seems to be dead as a land but tremendously alive as a storehouse of insects, animals, and reptiles.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYThe planter passes entire nights, provided with lights, clearing the buds just opening, of these destructive insects.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.I have had some of the cigars packed up for some months to test how far they are proof against insects.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.The island is especially favoured; it contains no poisonous or hurtful insects or reptiles.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERHe also showed her pieces of yellow amber in which insects more brilliant than jewels had been imprisoned for thousands of years.
HONEY-BEEANATOLE FRANCEMr. Bumble was meditating, and it might be that the insects brought to mind some painful passage in his own past life.
OLIVER TWIST, VOL. II (OF 3)CHARLES DICKENSWORDS RELATED TO INSECTS
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