...He might be said to be a lion importuned by a gnat... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... “you do not place this gnat bite...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...A fly or gnat no doubt inserts its proboscis into one's flesh just as a wasp does its sting; but the actions of such opposite parts of the body surely demand distinct names...
Edward Saunders 「Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants」
...On such occasionsthe hen would continue to sit, while the cock stood on thegunwale, pouring forth his sweet song, and made, from time totime, little sallies over the water after a flying gnat...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...He frequently pays visits, too, toroses trained against cottages, and will occasionally flutter againstthe glass to secure a spider or gnat that he has detected whilepassing...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...I havecalled it provisionally Chironomus oceanicus, or Ocean gnat...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...Previous to this it had beendiscovered that a larva of a gnat (Fig...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...Thischange of position is correlated with the necessity for the imago toemerge into the air; were the pupa to hang head downwards as the larvadoes, the gnat would perforce have to dive into the water...
Geo. H. Carpenter 「The Life-Story of Insects」
...A Gnat, attracted by the smell, may come and be caught in the honey; brawls between neighbours who are getting into each other's way may send some dust flying thither...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...What attracts me is a parasite, a trumpery Gnat, the bold despoiler of the Halictus...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...Forthwith, the Gnat walks in, with no more ceremony than if she were entering her own place...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...This final barricade, an excellent precaution when the cot is occupied by an Halictus in course of metamorphosis, becomes the height of absurdity when the Gnat has passed that way...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...The whole of the populous city has perished; and its place has been taken by the Gnat...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...He says to himself that business means getting hold of other people's cash, even as the Gnat says to herself that business means getting hold of the Halictus' honey...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...Colloquial language uses the terms Midge and Gnat to describe the tinyinsects which we often see dancing in a ray of sunlight...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...Squires,Black Gnat, Grizzly King, Quaker...
Charles Bradford 「The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout」
...Then: Black Gnat, Ginger Quill, Cowdung,Blue Quill...
Charles Bradford 「The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout」
..."The metal inhabitants of Kygptonemployed every invention theyknew to accomplish an engineeringmiracle that makes your bridgesand mines seem but the puny effortsof a gnat...
Donald Wandrei 「Raiders of the Universes」
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