Nearer and nearer thedevourers came, Where the Dove resting hid the thorns of fame.
Ichneumonidan devourers are kept in check by other Ichneumonidan devourers.
But the great bulk of the parasitic Hymenopterous devourers of larvae have their assigned station within the body.
They call us church robbers, devourers of holly things, cormorantes, etc.
But the time would come when the earth and human affection must assert their claims, and the watery tribes be pictured as cruel devourers of the living.
In the legend of Ishtar descending to Hades [25] to seek some beloved one, she threatens if the door be not opened-- I will raise the dead to be devourers of the living!
He kills waterhens and dabchicks, both devourers of fish spawn, and he slays quantities of eels, which are the worst vermin to be found in lake or stream.
These old trout not only prey on their own smaller relations, but are great devourers of fish spawn, and the same applies, only in a much greater degree, to eels, which are the worst vermin in or about a river or lake.
The most unrelenting devourers of insects appear to be those belonging to my fourth division, which attack them under every form.
But amongst all the orders, none is more fruitful in devourers of man than the Diptera.
There are other devourers of insects in their perfect state, the manners and food of whose larvae we are unacquainted with.
Amongst the devourers of insects in their perfect state only, must be ranked a few of the social tribes, ants, wasps, and hornets.
Moreover, a great number of the quarrymen and stonecutters, being peaceable and hard-working people, had refused, though Wolves themselves to join this hostile manifestation against the Devourers of M.
The Wolves have howled," he exclaimed; "let us wait and see how the Devourers will answer, and when they will begin the fight.
Hardy's, and offering them battle--unless the Devourers will give up the factory, and range themselves on their side.
Here are the Wolves in a body, saying there are Devourers here from M.
And that the Devourers would make themselves caps with wolf-skin," added another.
If the Devourers are cowards enough not to dare to show themselves, after a second volley of stones, there is a door down there which we can break open, and we will soon hunt them from their holes.
There are noDevourers here," replied Agricola; "we are only peaceable workmen.
The plunderers of the poor plundered in their turn by worse devourers than themselves.
They who are brilliant, of terrible designs, powerful, and devourers of foes; with the Maruts come hither, O Agni!
They who confer power, the roarers, the devourers of foes, they made winds and lightnings by their powers.
Whether the latter and their devourers cross the sea has not been ascertained; that the Coccinellae attempt it, is evident from their alighting upon ships at sea, as I have witnessed myself.
And also those merciless murders of children and devourers of men's flesh, the feasts of blood;" and xiv.
Those who are brilliant, of awful shape, powerful, and devourers of foes; with the Maruts come hither, O Agni!
Their devourers should be devoured, all their adversaries should go into captivity, those who had spoiled and preyed upon them should become a spoil and a prey.
And so he was swift and ready to shoot the buzzards and the royal sparhawks that were devourers of this poor folk.
The devourers and the devoured, were they two nations of different origin?
But these furious devourers are anticipatively kept down; mighty in destroying, they are very slow in reproducing.
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