...He might be said to be a lion importuned by a gnat...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... that strain out a gnat andswallow a camel...
Booker T. Washington 「The Negro in the South」
...Transformation of a Gnat (Culex)...
Geo. H. Carpenter 「The Life-Story of 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」
...We must not allow this diversity to lead us to believe in changes ofinstinct: that would be to strain at a Gnat and swallow a Camel...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Well, we are misled by the scientific label: we have to do with a very paltry insect, smaller than the common gnat...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...What attracts me is a parasite, a trumpery Gnat, the bold despoiler of the Halictus...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...As soon as the Halictus arrives from her harvesting, her legs yellow with pollen, the Gnat darts forth and pursues her, keeping behind her in all the turns of her oscillating flight...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
... When the Halictus comes back from the fields, the Gnat has decamped...
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」
...Who are these vagabonds? I see in them afflicted ones bereft of a family through the act of the odious Gnat...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...Then: Black Gnat, Ginger Quill, Cowdung,Blue Quill...
Charles Bradford 「The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout」
...RedPalmer, Grizzly King, Queen of the Water, King of the Water, BrownHen, Black Gnat...
Charles Bradford 「The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout」
... stung by a gnat...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
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