...He might be said to be a lion importuned by a gnat... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...His tail, rump, and abdomenare bright chestnut red, so that, as he leaps into the air after thecircling gnat, he looks almost as if he were on fire...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...The strange fact has been discovered by Grimm, a Russian naturalist,that the pupa of a feathered gnat is capable of laying eggs whichproduce young during the summer time...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...The larva of a Gnat (Culex) has projecting from the hind regionof the abdomen a long tubular outgrowth, at the end of which are thespiracles, guarded by three pointed flaps forming a valve...
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」
...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」
... Gnat...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...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」
...Forthwith, the Gnat walks in, with no more ceremony than if she were entering her own place...
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」
...The Gnat, reduced on her side to a single brood, remains in the pupa state and awaits the spring of the following year before effecting her transformation...
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」
...Those of the Zebra Halictus suit her very well, when the terrible Gnat has left them vacant for lack of heirs...
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」
...RedPalmer, Grizzly King, Queen of the Water, King of the Water, BrownHen, Black Gnat...
Charles Bradford 「The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout」
...The mantles from the golden pegsDroop sleepily: no sound is made,Not even of a gnat that sings...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
..."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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