Here Mr. Mouse's narrative was cut short by a pillow hitting him plump on the mouth, clean through his musquito net.
We also learn that the United States have fitted out a squadron of small vessels, called the Musquito Fleet, to search for the noted pirate Brand, who has so long committed atrocities among the islands.
We got an observation for latitude, and five hours later we determined the longitude and our position to be a few leagues to leeward of the Sarrana Keys, with that bird of a schooner before us heading for the Musquito coast.
The night-musquito is similar to the insect which disturbs our slumbers in Northern latitudes.
Musquito nettings are a necessity all the year round.
The day-musquito relieves his comrade at sunrise and remains on duty till sunset.
Gabriel touched the merchant upon the shoulder, "You should have said to him, that you merely wished to kill a musquito upon the wall.
The grass was of the curly musquito species, the sweetest and most nutritious of all the different kinds of that grass, and the dogs never locate their towns or cities except where it grows in abundance, as it is their only food.
So from deep lakes the dread Musquito springs, Drinks the soft breeze, and dries his tender wings, In twinkling squadrons cuts his airy way, Dips his red trunk in blood, and man his prey.
So from deep lakes the dreadmusquito springs, Drinks the soft breeze, and dries his tender wings.
It was some satisfaction to us to see the havoc made among them by a large and beautiful species of dragon-fly, called the musquito hawk, which wheeled through their retreats, swallowing its prey without a momentary diminution of its speed.
The food of the musquito is blood, which it can extract by penetrating the hide of a buffalo; and if it is not disturbed, it gorges itself so as to swell its body into a transparent globe.
We left Mr. Isbester and his companion, and crossed the peninsula of Musquito Point, to avoid a detour of several miles which the river makes.
Mr. Bull's Ideas on the Musquito Question; Starvation for the Delicate, 427.
Being regarded as unclean, she remains in this room for four days without a bedding or a musquito curtain, and no one touches her, not even her sisters.
For three days after being investited with the poita the boy is enjoined to sleep either on a carpet or a deer's skin, without a mattress or a musquito curtain.
On its banks we found enormous cypresses and live oaks, and a generally rich vegetation for these regions, and above all, musquito grass, which was of incalculable advantage for our cattle.
We now reached open plains, where only here and there an isolated musquito tree or a thickly foliaged elm offers a little shade on the boundless glowing surface, and the sky forms the horizon all around.
The forest musquito belongs to a different species from that of the town, being much larger and having transparent wings.
The town musquito has opaque, speckled wings, a less severe sting, and a silent way of going to work.
There are few musquitoes below Ega; above that point a musquito net is indispensable.
However small the fly might be, the spider would come, and even when only a musquito had been taken, it would come, but it would give only one or two sucks, and then would go away.
You will agree that there must be very little to suck out of a musquito that has not been feeding on a human being.
The worst, however, is, that they will sometimes force their way through the musquito bars.
Already the musquitoes are beginning to make their troublesome appearance, and musquito bars become necessary.
The king of the Musquito Indians claims the sea-coast of that country from the False Cape, lat.
I suppose young mariners have less difficulty in that respect now, as Queen Victoria has become god-mother to the young king of Musquito Shore, and taken him under her parental care, to assist him in robbing his neighbors' territories.
After ten days successful trade at Old Providence, I got under weigh and proceeded towards Musquito Shore, and in the day-time ran in near the land, but could not discover any settlements.
The government of Spain likewise claimed three small islands near the Musquito Shore, viz: Old Providence, lying in lat.
Between Musquito Lagoon and Indian River there is a small artificial canal cut through the coquina, the portion exposed being very hard, while the submerged part is crumbling into sand.
The Queen held the reins herself, and cracking the whip which is made of a musquito leg, away they went over the moon-beam.
One of them was the Musquito king's son; a youth of about eighteen years of age; and whilst he was here he was baptized by the name of George.
Before I embarked, I found with the Doctor four Musquito Indians, who were chiefs in their own country, and were brought here by some English traders for some selfish ends.
I was not many days on board before we sailed; but to my sorrow and disappointment, though used to such tricks, we went to the southward along the Musquito shore, instead of steering for Jamaica.
On the twelfth of February we sailed from Jamaica, and on the eighteenth arrived at the Musquito shore, at a place called Dupeupy.
One Sunday while we were there I took the Musquito Prince George to church, where he saw the sacrament administered.
The Musquito people within our vicinity, out of respect to the Doctor, myself and his people, made entertainments of the grand kind, called in their tongue tourrie or dryckbot.
Our vessel being ready to sail for the Musquito shore, I went with the Doctor on board a Guinea-man, to purchase some slaves to carry with us, and cultivate a plantation; and I chose them all my own countrymen.
We were obliged to go ashore and drag across different necks of land; we were also two nights in the swamps, which swarmed with musquito flies, and they proved troublesome to us.
They soon came to an anchor where we were, and, to my no small surprise, I learned that Doctor Irving was on board of her on his way from the Musquito shore to Jamaica.
He had a mind for a new adventure in cultivating a plantation at Jamaica and theMusquito Shore; asked me to go with him, and said that he would trust me with his estate in preference to any one.
The river seems here to run upon a high ridge; for we can see from our crafts a great distance back into the country, which is thickly covered with musquito and other low and scrubby trees.
From Montelrey to the coast the country lies exceedingly level, abounding more or less with musquito bushes, black ebony, and many other shrubs.
Our bed was provided with that indispensable accompaniment, a musquito bar or curtain, to which we were indebted for escape from various annoyances.
In 1684, three years after, when Dampier again visited the island, they put out a canoe from the vessel, and went ashore to look for the Musquito man.
He left on the island a Musquito Indian, who was out hunting for goats when the alarm was given, and was unable to reach the shore before the ship got under way and put to sea.
At daylight their fleet moved into the mouth of the Yazoo where they found the Choctaw, which joined the musquito boat that had convoyed them from Memphis, and the two convoyed them to Haines' Bluff.
The transports conveying the 1st Brigade were convoyed by a gunboat of the musquito fleet.
That day the Choctaw and musquito boats went up the Yazoo as far as Greenwood, but could not pass the batteries there.
The black fly and the musquito can only reach the exposed parts of the body, but to the midget every portion is accessible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "musquito" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
