The hippopotami scratch their tick-infested flanks upon her rusted sides, crocodiles crawl across her decks, fish swim through the open ports.
I dare say there have never been so many white and black men in a country infested with lions who have suffered so little from the beasts of the field as we have.
Here resorted the speculators from all parts of the South, to attend the weekly auctions of imported cargoes; and the town was infested with rogues and desperadoes, who made a livelihood by robbery and murder.
For a long time he had been chief of all the piratical bands that then infested the shores of Cuba.
Some of the garments--not those worn by the British prisoners--had become infested with vermin to such a degree as to constitute a plague and were now absolutely repulsive.
On the other hand, the moral standard of the nation was very low; bands of rowdies infested the city streets after nightfall; bribery and corruption were the rule in politics; and drunkenness was frightfully prevalent among all classes.
The halls or rather passages are narrow, and the rooms are small, dark, dirty and infestedwith vermin.
He says, "At certain times of the year, chiefly during the summer months, almost all fresh-water fish are liable to be infested with some kind of Epizoa.
Indeed, a story is told of a cunning Welsh captain who wanted to get rid of rats that infested his ship, then lying in the Mersey, at Liverpool.
After the bay is the island Ophiodes,[714] so called from the accidental circumstance [of its having once been infested with serpents].
They sleep in huts built on trees, the place being infested with multitudes of wild beasts.
It appears from the adventures of Malchus, which Jerom has related in so entertaining a manner, that the high road between Beraea and Edessa was infested by these robbers.
When the heretic Aetius was too favorably entertained at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, the place of his exile was changed, by the advice of Acacius, to Amblada, a district inhabited by savages and infested by war and pestilence.
On these banks tradition long preserved the memory of the palace of Phineus, infested by the obscene harpies; [4] and of the sylvan reign of Amycus, who defied the son of Leda to the combat of the cestus.
The Isaurians, each winter, infested the roads of Asia Minor, as far as the neighborhood of Constantinople.
The trade and industries of Babylon flourished greatly, and Nebuchadrezzar's soldiers took speedy vengeance on roving bands which infested the caravan roads.
It was dark and deep, and overgrown with trees and infested by worms.
This young monarch co-operated with his grandfather in suppressing the Suti, who infested the trade routes towards the west, and plundered the caravans of merchants and the messengers of great monarchs with persistent impunity.
Marauders who formerlyinfested the Irish coast and channel.
Robbers in India, and also pirates who infested the rivers between Calcutta and Burhampore, but now suppressed by the improved system of river police, and the establishment of fast rowing boats of light draught.
A name given to certain piratical rovers, of various European nations, who formerly infestedthe coasts of Spanish America.
But to the influence and exertions of Lord George Bentinck, the ‘legitimates’ owed the clearance of the Turf from the hordes of welshers and other non-payers that infested it.
The best legitimate Meetings, as well as the minor country side ventures, wereinfested with the rogues.
A hostile community lived along the road; guerilla bands infested the country, and more or less of the cavalry of the enemy was still in the West.
In February, 1896, Henry of Philadelphia showed microscopic slides containing blood which was infested with numbers of living and active filaria embryos.
De Bry mentions that the negroes of Guinea ate filthy, stinking elephant-meat and buffalo-flesh infested with thousands of maggots, and says that they ravenously devoured dogs' guts raw.
This river seems to be infested with pirates, and it will not surprise me to hear that there are others.
Murder in these seas may be of almost daily occurrence; indeed I believe I am right in saying that Borneo and the islands around are infested by pirates who fall upon any and every ship with the one object of plunder.
Tis not long ago that the Campagna di Roma wasinfested by Locusts (which are here call'd Grilli) to such a Degree, that Pope Benedict XIII.
This Part of the Province of Holland is very much infested with Worms which eat into the very Stakes pf the Dykes.
Borrow arrived at Madrid on 26th December, having almost by a miracle avoided death or capture by the human wolves that infested the country.
He had gone out into the highways, risking his life at every turn, penetrating into bandit- infested provinces in the throes of civil war, suffering incredible hardships and fatigues and, never sparing himself.
The place was infested with banditti, and robberies, accompanied by horrible murders, were of constant occurrence.
At Nogales Borrow joined the mail courier; but as a rule he was too independent, too much in a hurry, and too indifferent to danger to wait for such protection against the perils of the robber- infested roads.
The neighbourhood of Oulton appears to have been infested with thieves, and poachers found admirable "cover" in the surrounding plantations, or small woods.
This I attribute largely to the horizontal metallic showers with which that region was infested and against which no ordinary cotton umbrella was an adequate protection.
The intricacies of this jungle-infested region are much better known to the Southern soldiers than to those from the North, and this knowledge is a full compensation for any disparity in numbers known to exist.
When Isabella, the Catholic, ascended the throne of Castile, she was called upon to govern a country profoundly demoralised, infested with evil doers and dominated by a turbulent and vicious nobility.
While he was suffering they reached a place which is so infested by flies and bees that the inhabitants cannot move out of their houses during the day.
During the night they traversed a region infested by the tsetse, a fly not much larger than the common house-fly, the bite of which destroys cattle and horses.
From want of water they suffered greatly, while the tsetse infested the district.
Mr Baker's skill as a sportsman was frequently called into play by the natives, to drive off the elephants and hippopotami which infested their plantations.
How melancholy came afterwards the recollection of that busy scene, when on his return, three and a half years later, he found it an insecure wilderness, infested by robbers, the whole of the inhabitants having been swept away!
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