A hundred and ten miles from my place of destination, without a bite to eat, and Indians so thick around me that I dare not fire a shot, lest I should attract to me one or more of the straggling bands infesting the country!
It was a lucky circumstance that none of the many squads of guerrillas infesting that region, discovered me, in that unguarded condition, or perhaps I would never have reached my destination.
So far as is known, only the pine-infesting form of the aphis occurs in New Zealand.
Several generations develop thus, but later many of the offspring migrate underground and join the root-infesting colonies.
One of the readiest methods of infesting a garden is the importation of pests on plants, and every care should be taken to secure only pest-free stock.
This species has been found to migrate to the foliage of the elm and mountain ash, but in New Zealand the elm-infesting form has not been found to occur.
The leaf-infesting stages of the insect cause pocket-like galls to form, which open on the upper surface of the leaf by a narrow aperture concealed under a tuft of delicate hairs (Fig.
From early spring, even before the foliage develops, this aphis may be found heavily infesting the young, succulent shoots of peach; it also occurs on cherry, plum and nectarine.
What is specially noticeable about these plants is their similarity to the living forms infesting the higher plants of the present day.
Fossil Leaf l with Nests of Infesting Fungal Spores f on its lower side] Algae.
Before the Great Portage, from the Kennebec to the Dead River, had been traversed, Dick was inured to the life of an amphibious being, as well as to that of some swamp-infesting animal or of some inhabitant of the underbrush.
On inquiring, Dick learned that his visitor was well known by sight to the landlady's son as having been, not many weeks before, one of the countless frail damsels infesting the sidewalks of the town after nightfall.
Eads (personal communication, 1955), in response to our inquiry about the mixed populations of cockroaches that he had reported infesting sewers in Texas (Eads et al.
Mites of this genus are found infestingorganic matter (Baker and Wharton, 1952).
Fancy an animal with the murderous ferocity of a mink, the agility of a squirrel, the penetration of a ferret and the cunning of a rat, infesting the thickets and barnyards of this country.
The effect of this number of hungry martins on the insects infesting the neighborhood may be imagined.
And besides these that go round infesting the place outside he's got a short yearling and a long two-year-old that have to be night-herded.
So, after infesting a few more houses with the Home Queen, Ed went into his new profession.
We may say, then, that while there are many species of bacteria infestingthe dairy which can sour the milk, there is one which is more common and more universally found than others, and this is the ordinary cause of milk souring.
It is he who controls the whole service of German espionage throughout the world, and he is the unscrupulous chief of the horde of spies who are infesting the Eastern counties of England and preparing for `the day.
Defn: The act ofinfesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance.
When a village has been visited by a series of disasters or a severe epidemic, the Minahassa of Celebes lay the blame upon the devils who areinfesting the village and must be expelled from it.
A good illustration of the prevalence of house-infesting animals and insects is given by Mr Whymper (op.
My friends have returned to Washington, but I expect to remain here a few weeks yet, infesting the woods, devastating the mountain larders, supervising the sunsets and guiding the stars in their courses.
Finally six galleons could be prepared, to oppose the other six which were infesting the coasts.
In the year 602, Captain Juan Xuarez Gallinato went out in a fleet to attack the Mindanaos, who were infesting the coast of Manila.
The guerrilla bands infesting this country were small, however, and he considered that with his fifty men he would be able to cope with any force he might meet.
A number of minute parasites infesting various Nemertines, Turbellarians, and Ophiuroids have recently been studied by Giard and Metschnikoff, the former of whom has placed them in a special group which he calls the Orthonectidae.
Similarly a Cysticercus infestingthe muscles of the ox becomes the Taenia mediocanellata of man.
I disapprove of arsenic as a means of destroying noxious insects infesting flowers and plants.
I declare, on my oath, that I never saw any rats in or about the house, or ever heard of any rats infesting it.
It was therefore the action of Jewish interlopers, men of the same stamp as those infesting the Galatian Churches, which occasioned Paul's second, public visit to Jerusalem, and his consultation with the heads of the Judean Church.
Phelim had not confided in her, and as yet she had no suspicion of his connection with the band of housebreakers and thieves infesting the valley.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infesting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
