When one of these animals died, his body used to breed a multitude of little animals, much as the carcass of the huge Ymir, rotting in Ginnunga-gap, bred the maggots that turned to dwarfs.
Not perceiving any thing particular in the mole, he buried it again; and on examining it at the end of six days he found it swarming with maggots apparently the issue of the beetles, which M.
Sometimes the maggots make their way even into the brain.
The common saying that a whimsical person is maggoty, or has got maggots in his head, perhaps arose from the freaks the sheep have been observed to exhibit when infested by their bots.
And, to name no more, mushrooms, which are frequently cultivated and much in request, often swarm with the maggots of various Diptera and Coleoptera.
Ovis) from getting at their nostrils, on the inner margin of which they lay their eggs, from whence the maggots make their way into the head, feeding in the maxillary and frontal sinuses on the mucilage there produced.
He then put her in a hammock inside a warehouse, and as the scars received no treatment in a few days maggots bred in them; then by his orders the Indian girl was dragged out and killed.
As the poor wretches receive absolutely no medical treatment, within a few days these wounds putrefy, maggots make their appearance, and the miserable victims of this form of Peruvian "civilisation" die a lingering and repulsive death.
The Indian woman was left with her back literally torn to pieces, and in four days, when she began to stink and had maggots in her rotten flesh, Fonseca came and ordered me to kill her.
In this time I saw ten Indians killed and burnt and three hundred were flogged who died slowly, for their wounds are not treated, and when they are full of maggots they kill them with bullets and machetes and afterwards burn some of them.
A man who has got maggotsin a wound is purified by being given to drink water, mixed with powdered turmeric, in which silver and copper rings have been dipped.
Temporary exclusion is imposed for killing a cat, dog or squirrel, getting maggots in a wound, being sentenced to imprisonment [548] or committing adultery with a person of any low caste.
A man who gets maggots in a wound may be readmitted to caste only during the months of Chait and Pus.
Temporary excommunication from caste is imposed for conviction of a criminal offence, getting maggots in a wound, and killing a cow, a dog or a cat.
On administration of a vermifuge he voided one of the rat-tailed maggots of Eristalis.
The minute maggots bore their way painlessly into the skin.
It is probable that the adult was attracted by the odor of the discharges and deposited the living maggots upon the diseased tissues.
In mid-summer the flies deposit living maggots in the nostrils of sheep.
As the maggots congregate at the outer edge of the pile, most of the borax should be applied there.
In the case of babies, the maggots may be deposited on the scalp.
The common saying that a whimsical person is maggoty, or has got maggots in his head, perhaps arose from the freaks the sheep have been observed to exhibit when infested by their Bots.
Among those perplexities, or, as I termed them, questioning feelings about nature and its animating principle, I turn now to the consideration of the last instance, that of the maggots of putrefaction.
You diddled me out of house and home, among you: And settled yourselves couthily in my calfyard, Like maggots in a muckheap, while I went cawdrife.
Calhoun mentions an instance of disease of the ear which he found was due to the presence of several livingmaggots in the interior of the ear.
Nicholson mentions a case of ulceration and abscess of the nostrils and face from which maggots were discharged.
Jarvis gives the history of a strange and repeated hemorrhage from the nose and adjacent parts that was found to be due to maggots from the ova of a fly, which had been deposited in the nose while the patient was asleep.
Dempster reports an instance of the lodgment of numerous live maggots within the cavity of the nose, causing sloughing of the palate and other complications.
Tomlinson gives a case in which maggots traversed the Eustachian tube, some being picked out of the nostrils, while others were coughed up.
The patient had been sleeping in a horse stall in which were found maggots similar to those extracted from his ear.
Pumps were set to work and kept continually in use; myriads of maggots were thus taken up with the bilge-water, proving the existence in the depths of the vessel of animal matter in a state of decomposition.
I experimented on a Cornish chough--an old specimen, infested with maggotsor larvae of the "clothes" moth.
A similar belief, which is widespread, is that bees have their origin as maggots placed in trees.
Jesus took the maggots from the wound and placed them in the hollow of a tree.
A few more drinks, and in his brain he felt the maggots of intoxication beginning to crawl.
It also perches on the bodies of the beasts, and operates on them where there aremaggots or worms.
The further actions of this bird are protective, for it attacks the gnawing maggots that live in the ground.
It does the same with the gall-nuts in order to get at the maggots or chrysalis of the gall-wasp.
The maggots force their way upwards as far as the bones of the forehead where they abide for about nine months, causing vertigo and staggers, and sometimes death.
Finally, the dead or dying maggotsmay be removed with forceps, the wound washed with a weak carbolic or cresylic acid solution, and painted with pine tar to reduce the chances of further attack by flies.
Ox warbles are whitish or, when full grown, dark-colored grubs or maggots that develop from the eggs deposited on the hairs of cattle by certain flies known as warble flies.
They hatch in about 24 hours, and the larvæ or maggots in four or five days develop to the pupal stage, which lasts a week or 10 days.
The swarming flies hummed on the putrid side, Whence poured the maggots in a darkling stream, That ran along these tatters of life's pride With a liquescent gleam.
And like a wave the maggots rose and fell, The murmuring flies swirled round in busy strife: It seemed as though a vague breath came to swell And multiply with life The hideous corpse.
He then performs an initiatory rite, which consists in swallowing the maggots bred in the putrid carcase of the animal of his choice; thenceforth he partakes of that animal's nature.
As remarked above, only flesh-eating maggots have yet been tried.
Pickled alewives, freshened out in water, have been found to answer fairly well, when other materials are lacking, at least to give growth to maggots otherwise started.
No attempt is, however, made to induce the young fish to swallow even the smallest maggotsuntil they have been fed a while an chopped liver.
For use in feeding fish in a pond a box containing a series of shelves, down which the maggots slowly crawl, was found sufficiently useful to be retained.
The materials used for the enticing of the flies and the nourishment of the maggots have been various.
In the production of maggots we have also made use of large quantities of stale meat from the markets and some barrels of fish pomace, in addition to the articles mentioned above.
Next to the chopped meat, maggots have constituted the most important article of food, and their systematic production has received much attention.
In the fish troughs there are, therefore, certain gains in both cleanliness and economy from the use of maggots which may be set down as compensating the waste and filthiness of the fly-house.
When full grown themaggots work their way down through the hay into the lower box, where they are found nearly free from dirt.
In the above methods maggots are produced and used in considerable numbers, sometimes as many as a bushel in a day.
It is obvious, therefore, that the maggots are not generated by the corruption of the meat; and that the cause of their formation must be a something which is kept away by gauze.
The conclusion, therefore, is unavoidable; the maggots are not generated by the meat, but the eggs which give rise to them are brought through the air by the flies.
They seem to have been hatched by that fraudulent system, as maggots are bred by putrid meat, or as the flounders come in the livers of rotten sheep.
They seem to be a sort of creatures that have an inheritance in the public carcass, like the maggots that some people have in their skins.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maggots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
