...There were no flies here, thus there were no worms to devour the carcasses; but the usual sextons were the crows, although sometimes too few to perform their office...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...From timeto time, one of the sextons, almost always a male, comes out andwalks round the animal, which he explores, probing its velvet coat...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...As the diggers belowdeepen the cavity into which the corpse, shaken and tugged above,sinks without the direct intervention of the sextons, the grave fillsof itself by the mere slipping of the soil...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...In the first fortnight of June, thefamily being sufficiently provided, the sextons strike work and mycages are deserted on the surface, in spite of new arrivals of Miceand Sparrows...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...In order to excavate thesoil, our sextons have to feel the weight of their dead upon theirbacks...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...In that case, as allmy experiments emphatically declare, the fall of the stake underminedby the sextons is a pure matter of imagination...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...From time to time,one of the sextons, almost always a male, emerges and goes the roundsof the animal, which he explores, probing its velvet coat...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...The Mole is placed in the centre; and mysquad of sextons is let loose upon the body...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...In this case all myexperiments emphatically assert that the fall of the stake underminedby the sextons is a pure matter of imagination...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
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