pests

The donkeys legs were stripped bare of hair, because of these pests.

If they left their pests behind, the total system of checks and balances which make life practical would get lopsided.

How the Indians stood them, goodness knows, but perhaps they put up with the pests because they helped keep off the enemy.

To control these pests, the only thing to do is to cut out and burn the badly-infested parts.

The Algerines were then, as they were for many years afterwards, the pests of the ocean.

He had been accustomed to these pests from infancy, but never had he known them to be as bad as they were on this day.

We must organize and unite to rid communities of these pests.

Then again, while rain is needed in fair quantity, too much of it is followed by rot and myriads of pests.

These pests also deprive the farmer of a portion of his income every season, and, now and then, they destroy his crop altogether.

Indeed under favorable conditions these may keep small ponds or lakes quite free from the pests.