My bed and tent came up two hours later, and not before the leeches and mosquitos had taxed me severely.
Leeches and mosquitos were very troublesome, the latter appearing in clouds at night; during the day they were rarer, but the species was the same.
The valley was fearfully hot, and infested with mosquitos and peepsas.
At this season few insects but grasshoppers are to be seen, even mosquitos being rare.
On the journey of this day we came very soon to what seemed to be the "height of land" in that part, and descending on the other side came into a place of swamp where the mosquitos assaulted us in clouds.
We sat in silence (while the ponies browsed the tufts of grass) watching the clouds of mosquitos hanging in their phalanxes along the trickle of the stream and the bright, gauzy, blue wings of two mosquito-hawks flashing through their midst.
I think that for the time being the mosquitos spurred us forward as much as did our fear of being forestalled in out quest.
The mosquitos are not favourable to epistle writing.
There the swarms of mosquitos compelled Mr. Lefferts to retreat for the night within a curtain canopy for protection; and thither he was followed by a fat savage who shared the protection with him all night long.
When I was here before with Brother Lefferts and others, two of them could not sit still to read something that wanted to be read; they walked the floor, one holding the candle, the other the paper; both fighting mosquitos with both hands.
Mosquitos were thick and blood-thirsty enough to cause refreshing sleep to be an impossibility.
The weather was extremely hot, with mosquitos and flies terribly annoying, and before many days Lieutenant Swift was obliged to call upon Lieutenant White to assist him with the negro troops.
The black flies made the day unendurable, and the mosquitos made the night as well as the day a wasting misery.
Besides, the mosquitos would suck us as dry as Egyptian mummies.
So I sat up fanning away mosquitos that he might sleep, toppling over now and then on the pillows till roused by his stirring.
At night the housekeeper said she was sorry they had no mosquito-bars ready, and hoped the mosquitos would not be thick, but they came out in legions.
It drizzled now and then, and the mosquitosswarmed over us.
Frequently the gnats and the mosquitos are so bad we cannot read at all.
In the boat the mosquitos were horrible, but I fell asleep and slept till voices on the bank woke me.
When the wind went down, the mosquitos came off in clouds.
If we landed, and sought any shade, the mosquitos would drive us at once to the glare of the sun.
Violent rains, and the prodigious quantity of mosquitos with which the air is filled on the banks of the Orinoco and the Cassiquiare, necessarily occasioned some interruptions; but I supplied the omission by notes taken a few days after.
But at the Orinoco, the banks of which are very insalubrious, the sick blame the mosquitos for all their sufferings.
The great cloud of mosquitos (la nube de moscas) to use the expression of the monks, is suspended only over the Orinoco and its tributary streams, and is dissipated in proportion as you remove from the rivers.
The Carib and the Salive, who are painted red, are not less cruelly tormented by the mosquitos and the zancudos, than the Indians whose bodies are plastered with no colour.
While one of us hid himself under a sheet to ward off the insects, the other insisted on having green wood lighted beneath the toldo, in the hope of driving away the mosquitos by the smoke.
When they have gone up the Orinoco as far as San Borja, the fear of the mosquitos will prevent them from going farther.
When travellers judge only by their own sensations they differ from each other respecting the abundance of the mosquitos as they do respecting the progressive increase or diminution of the temperature.
The absence of the mosquitos is purchased dearly enough by the excessive heat of the stagnated air, and the smoke of a torch of copal, which lights the oven during your stay in it.
As the mosquitos and gnats pass two-thirds of their lives in the water, it is not surprising that these noxious insects become less numerous in proportion as you recede from the banks of the great rivers which intersect the forests.
At Mandavaca we found an old missionary, who told us with an air of sadness, that he had had his twenty years of mosquitos in America*.
Outside of natives and furs, it is difficult to see what interest there could be in such a trip, unless the tourist is studying the habits of mosquitos and midges, in which case he would strike a veritable paradise.
Late in December they turn, and gradually work their way back, so that by the time that June and the mosquitos have arrived they are near the sea.
It was now late in June, and themosquitos had arrived in full force, though the flies as yet held off.
The dogs suffered less, for their hair protected them, and at night they would sleep with their faces buried between their paws so that themosquitos could not get at their vulnerable spot.
After the coal was landed they loaded loose ironwork and towed heavy spars ashore, and Walthew held out somehow until darkness fell, when he paddled back to the Enchantress with a swarm of mosquitos buzzing round his face.
To make things worse, there was no coolness after sunset, when steamy mist wrapped the vessel in its folds, bloodthirsty mosquitos came down in swarms, buzzing insects dimmed the lamps, and the smell of festering mire grew nauseating.
Sleep was out of the question, and when the mosquitos drove them off the deck the men lay in their stifling berths and waited drearily for another day of misery to begin.
Sloths and strange birds' nests hung from the trees, while the mosquitos and insects made life almost unendurable.
The mosquitos and other insects almost drive one mad.
We generally slept on the deck of the steamer, each under a thin netting, while the millions of mosquitos buzzed outside--and inside when they could steal a march.
The Guatos' chief business in life seemed to consist in sitting on fibre mats spread on the ground, and driving away the bloodthirstymosquitos from their bare backs.
Why "mosquitos รก la Paris" was one of the items on our menu one day.
They were busy devouring a dead cow and a newly-born calf, and I saw their naked bodies through such dense clouds of mosquitos that in one clap of the hands I could kill twenty or thirty.
Several times I was awakened by my guide rising, and, by the light of a palm torch, searching for wood to replenish the dying fire, in the smoke of which we slept, as a help against the millions of mosquitosbuzzing around.
Inhabiting, as they do, one of the hottest and dampest places on the earth's surface, where mosquitos are numberless, the wonder is that they exist at all.
But let me take my gun and go out in the woods, or on the marsh, where there are a million mosquitos to one of me, and what kind of a life will they let me lead?
There they enjoy some rest, the mosquitos appearing to shun air loaded with vapours.
The mosquitos or some other kind of insects appeared to be biting him, and this had prevented him from sleeping soundly.
We were horribly tormented in the day by mosquitos and the jejen (a small venomous fly), and at night by the zancudos, a large species of gnat, dreaded even by the natives.
Armor is made of plaited reeds covered with tiger-skins, and ornamented with feathers; besides which, the northern Mosquitos employ a breastplate of twisted cotton, like that of the Mexicans.
The song-language of the Mosquitos differs greatly from that employed in conversation, a quaint old-time style being apparently preserved in their lyrics.
The Mosquitos proper are ruled by a hereditary king, who claims sovereignty over the interior tribes of the Mosquito Coast, which, in many cases, is merely nominal.
The Mosquitos are not entirely devoid of affection; but their grief seems to be reserved for the dead, not the dying.
The Mosquitos have 'little trade except in tortoise-shells and sarsaparilla.
Domestic utensils in the homes of the Mosquitos consist of stones for grinding grain and roots, clay pots and plates for cooking purposes, and gourds, calabashes, and nets for holding food and liquids.
According to Young, the Mosquitos had an officer, in whom was vested certain authority.
Most of theMosquitos grow a little cotton, which the women spin on a rude wheel, like that of the Guatemalans, and weave on a frame loom into strong and neat cloths.
Aboriginal Mosquitos also perforated ears, lips, and cheeks, to hold pendants of fish-bones and green stones; the holes in the ears being as large as eggs.
The Mosquitos proper are more uniform in appearance, and buccaneers have no doubt assisted in bringing out many of the characteristics that have obtained for the Sambo race the leading position on the coast.
The odor arising from fish-entrails and other filth, which they take no pains to remove, appears to be inoffensive, but the Nootkas are often driven by mosquitos to sleep on a stage over the water.
Many who suffer by mosquitos admit that the buzz is worse, to them, than the bite, which is proof of a purely mental and unnecessary affliction.
My braving of the mosquitos would certainly be classed as foolish, except as a test of superiority, but the pin-point red spots soon disappear and do no permanent harm.
There was a time in my boyhood when mosquitos poisoned and annoyed me beyond endurance.
In the practice of my freedom from what was once a great affliction, I sometimes brave a swarm of mosquitos by sleeping in their presence without drawing the bar.
Mosquitos are said to breed in malarial conditions, and for the purpose of absorbing the malaria.
The boys camped under a cluster of small trees with ponchos and blankets over them, and as the black flies had disappeared and mosquitos were few, enjoyed a good night's rest.
Whatever you intend to do let us get on some clothing, for these mosquitos and black flies are torturing us.
These mosquitos will come in clouds after dark, and we can't last long then.
It certainly has grown on us the last week," said Rand, "and I notice that lately the mosquitos seem to be taking a liking to it.
The first thing that became apparent when the boys and the miner threw back the cheesecloth door of their tent that kept out the horde of mosquitos in the early morning was the absolute silence of the forest.
Judging them to come from some vehicle travelling at a slow walk along the edge of the timber, I posted myself behind a tree, and waited as patiently as the mosquitos permitted.
I followed the buggy at a Chinaman's trot, thinking the thing over, and switching myself desperately, for the night was getting hotter and darker, and mosquitos livelier.
When Falstaff appears in his disguise he is attacked on all sides by fairies, wasps, flies and mosquitos and they torment him so long, until he cries for mercy.
He was so busy over the mosquitos that he did not hear Ciccu steal softly out, or see him catch up the sword.
Scarcely had he lain down than the mosquitos began to buzz about and bite him, and he rolled from side to side trying to catch them, which he never could do, though they always seemed to be close to his nose.
The comparative coolness of the day rendered the annoyance from mosquitos less severe than we had found them the preceding day.
A humid atmosphere is ever the signal for awakening hordes of insects, and the mosquitos became so troublesome that it was impossible to sleep at all after the shower.
High and open as our position was on this eminence, our old friends the mosquitos did not forget us.
Our second night's repose in this swampy tract, was on ground just elevated above the water; the mosquitos were so pertinacious at this spot as to leave us but little rest.
We found mosquitos of three sorts, and all of them abundant in every part of the country.
There is great want of wood: mosquitos are in great plenty.
The mosquitos were monsters and they came off to us in myriads: we had no nets to protect us against their attacks, and the only thing to be done was to roll one's self up in a rug in a beddingless bunk and swelter until morning.
But although with us they are usually rather teasing than injurious; yet upon some occasions they have approached nearer to the character of a plague, and emulated with success the mosquitos of other climates.
Most writers by the term mosquitos mean gnats; and for them it is here chiefly employed, but may be regarded as including both plagues.
At his suggestion they retired to a hotel for the night, for the mosquitos were in undisturbed possession of the Chalmetta.
He wore the uniform of the army, and was battling the mosquitos with the smoke of a plantation cigar, which bore a very striking resemblance to those rolls of the weed vulgarly denominated "long nines.
Then when the mosquitos get tired of staying up in the ambient atmosphere, they'll come crawling down the rope and fall off where you cut it.
I read a story about how to get rid of mosquitos the other day," Sandy said.
If you leave it to me," George declared with a grin, "that story about how to kill mosquitos came out of Noah's ark on crutches.
Mosquitos and an insect known as the "bull-dog" had driven many a trapper and hunter out of the swampy regions around Hudson Bay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mosquitos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
