...The suck of the water as it took the beginning of the last steeppitch was frightful, and Thornton knew that the shore was impossible...
Jack London 「The Call of the Wild」
... The river's weight seemed to suck a hurricane along with it--air enough for a million men to breathe...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... A most remarkable feature in the bite of the tsetse is its perfect harmlessness in man and wild animals, and even calves, so long as they continue to suck the cows...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...To the question whence is this fluid derived, the people reply that the insects suck it out of the tree, and our own naturalists give the same answer...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...It is remarkable that neither man, wild animals, nor even calves as long as they continue to suck, suffer from the bite of this fearful pest...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...They care little for sugar, contrary to the rule of Africa in general, but they over-salt all their food; and they will suck the condiment as children do lollipops...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...The cows are often worked as well as the oxen; and as the calvesare always permitted to suck them, milk is an article which thetraveller can rarely hope to procure in a Kandyan village...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Josh's handtrembled as he bared it to lay the back on his lipsand suck so as to make a mousey squeak...
Ernest Thompson Seton 「Wild Animals at Home」
..." Maestro Agostino adds, moreover,that the mother refuses to give suck to the colt aslong as it carries this piece of flesh upon its lips, andsome say that the mother herself eats it...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...The tentacles about the eye become very delicate and aredestitute of suckers...
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz 「Seaside Studies in Natural History」
...If the milk is poured in its mouth from aspoon or bottle, it is frequently difficult, as before stated, to induceit to suck...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...7 and 8) suck the blood of cattle and are moreinjurious than the red lice (fig...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...Chickens are dainties in a cat’s cuisine; they also rather like a nice plump partridge, and won’t refuse to suck an egg when occasion offers...
Gordon Stables 「The Domestic Cat」
...On these dry corpses, fit at most for gnawing, butcertainly containing nothing to suck, the Sitaris-larvæ took up theircustomary position and there remained motionless as on the livinginsect...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Bugs do not bite, they suck...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
...They stick these sharp tubes or beaks into their food, and suck it up...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
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