There is nothing which prevents the Dervish-mosquito from alighting quietly and getting to work long before you knew it was there.
There is no hell like unsatisfied longings; and if one good long drink of blood means one more mosquito happy, only a churl would grudge it.
Now a mosquito yearns for blood as an old maid does after a husband, and for Nature to condemn it to a week or two of life sustained on the moisture of plants is like feeding a lion on bread and milk.
The air was balmy as we composed ourselves to sleep that night, and there was not even a mosquito in our nets.
One cannot help admiring the Dervish-mosquito the most.
I had collected all the mosquitoliterature of the world, and my books, in French, German and English, lay near my great microscope.
My book on the mosquito is going to be handsomely illustrated, Helena, believe me.
No, but a new and rare kind of upper-air mosquito has just alighted on your shoulder," spoke the professor, eagerly.
At evening our friend has a hot bath, a long cool fizzly drink of lime juice and soda; he puts on the clean clothes laid out for him, assumes soft mosquito boots, and sits down to dinner.
The English "mosquito boot" is simply an affair like a riding boot, made of suede leather, with thin soles.
When we emerged, in ourmosquito boots and pajamas, the daylight was gone.
He may not eat salt, and he is enjoined to sleep either on a carpet or a deer's skin, without a mattress or mosquito curtain.
The Mosquito Indians of Central America carefully preserved the bones of deer and the shells of eggs, lest the deer or chickens should die or disappear.
In Cambodia a girl at puberty is put to bed under a mosquito curtain, where she should stay a hundred days.
On retiring to bed you take a towel with you into the sacred interior, behind the mosquito curtains.
The Mosquito Indians gather some, however, which is shipped from Blewfields and Greytown in small quantities.
Although this may be somewhat of an exaggeration, it is nevertheless true that frequently horses and cattle, after the most frightful sufferings, have died from mosquito bites on board the vessels.
Beyond the mining district down to the Mosquito coast there extends a forest of immense area, filled with the finest woods, and it has scarcely been touched.
We could not get in our heavy blows for long enough to crush Scheer, and he could not get in his mosquito attacks with sufficient success wholly to stave us off.
There I took up my lodgings, and my rest was seldom disturbed excepting occasionally by the visits of a few of the most venturous and aspiring of the mosquito tribe, or a copious shower of rain.
There being no mosquito bars attached to the berths in the forecastle, the foretop was the only place in which I could procure a few hours repose.
Having secured some live bait with a little seine made of mosquito netting, Bluff and Frank tried the fishing, using the boat to reach what seemed to be good ground.
Then, we'd have to use that little mosquito netting seine, and get some more minnows.
Unfortunately for mankind, the female mosquito possesses a most elaborate instrument of torture.
Sanborn, and other leading American entomologists, assert that the mosquito saves from twenty-five to forty per cent.
We knew what that meant; and to escape another sleepless night in the mosquito lowland, we were ready to take almost any risk.
When the young female mosquito emerges from the water, she lays her eggs in the way described, and her offspring following in time her example, several broods are raised in a single season.
It is to be hoped that the mosquito keeps her surgical instruments clean, otherwise it might be a means of propagating blood diseases.
The town-mosquito has opaque speckled wings, a less severe sting, and a silent way of going to work; the inhabitants ought to be thankful the big, noisy fellows never come out of the forest.
It comes forth only by day, relieving the mosquito at sunrise with the greatest punctuality, and occurs only near the muddy shores of the stream, not one ever being found in the shade of the forest.
People who come to our cedar bark wigwam to show us their mosquito bites, will be received as cordially as though no great social chasm yawned between us.
You go to a sewing society meeting to make mosquito netting for the Eskimo and blankets for the Hottentots, and instead you sit and chew the rag and rip some woman up the back.
A brief pause followed, and then the Pawang took the larger piece of yellow cloth and wrapped it like a royal robe around the shoulders of the patient as he sat up inside his mosquito curtain.
Sufficient to say that Ophelia never set up another mosquito trap made of frogs.
Tie the villains to a tree, and let them perish of mosquito bites," Nyoda commanded in an awful tone.
On none of these occasions had we ever been molested by a single mosquito or had we ever thought of using a mosquito net.
We had, besides, good cumare hammocks, and mosquito nets, so that we had nothing to apprehend from filth, vermin or insects.
An insurrectionary movement, under General Reyes, broke out at Bluefields in February last, and for a time exercised actual control in the Mosquito Territory.
As an incident of the brief revolution in the Mosquito district of Nicaragua early in 1899 the insurgents forcibly collected from American merchants duties upon imports.
There the mosquito revelled, and it was a promising place for centipedes.
The miserable and sleepless night that only one mosquito inside the curtain can cause, is so well known, and has been so often described, that it is needless to describe it here.
A small village peeps out about halfway up the mountain; it has a pure and bracing atmosphere; and is perched above mosquito range.
At anchor, on a still evening, they were excessively annoying; and the sooner we took refuge under our mosquito curtains, the better.
The mosquito is a gnat that has many relatives, some very troublesome, like the black fly.
Very often unbearable the hour before sunset, they disappeared as night closed in, and I never had occasion to use a mosquito curtain.
Don't forget to pull down the mosquito netting, my dear," Mr. Buzzacott exhorted.
He was always terribly tiresome about mosquito nets.
She turned away from the mirror, crossed the room, and, without lowering the mosquito curtains, lay down on her bed.
Killing a mosquito is easy, and throwing a shuttle is easy, but to do both at one time is a mighty different affair!
A great haystack of an elephant will be a fine mark to a man who has shot a mosquito with a shuttle!
The man who can shoot a mosquitodead with a shuttle ought not to hide his light under a bushel' So off he set, with his bundle, his shuttle, and a loaf of bread tied up in a kerchief.
The mosquito flew disclosed, the atmospheric viper,--a viper most venomous and deadly.
Indeed, far more intricate in their processes and more deceitful in their aspects, they more deeply affect the general well-being and happiness than any ill or epidemic which torments the physical being, even the mosquito malaria.
The mosquito door swung back with a crash and Ellice appeared in the entrance with a hot, angry face, and hands smeared with dough, her hair hanging partly loose in disorder about her neck, her skirt ungracefully kilted up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mosquito" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: airplane; bloodsucker; insect; leech; parasite; tick
