The exception in the indictment, enables me to avoid the plea of necessity, which I should have interposed, founded upon a huge forest meal, and the abundance as well as impertinence of the musquitoes of these woods.
The musquitoes at midday have gone to their rest, or if a straggler comes buzzing and singing about your ears, you are lulled rather than disturbed by his song.
Towards evening, it fell calm, and the musquitoes teazed us unmercifully.
The weather being calm and warm, the musquitoes were excessively troublesome.
The musquitoes were extremely troublesome during our repast, after which we retired to sleep on board the boat.
The musquitoes too are in large quantities, but not so troublesome as they were below.
We saw some big-horns, a few antelopes and beaver, but since entering the mountains have found no buffaloe: the otter are however in great plenty: the musquitoes have become less troublesome than they were.
The timber which we examined to day was not sufficiently strong for oars; the musquitoes and ticks are exceedingly troublesome.
The evening is cool, yet the musquitoesare still very troublesome.
The musquitoes and other animals are so troublesome that musquitoe biers or nets were distributed to the party.
The ceremonies of the council being concluded, we set sail in the afternoon, and encamped at the distance of five miles, on the south side, where we found the musquitoes very troublesome.
An elk was seen to-day, a turkey also shot, and near our camp is a beaver den: the musquitoes have been more troublesome than ever for the two last days.
The musquitoes and gnats were unusually fierce this evening.
The musquitoes and gnats persecute us as violently as below, so that we can get no sleep unless defended by biers, with which we are all provided.
A large beaver was caught in a trap last night, and the musquitoes begin to trouble us.
Our old companions the musquitoes have renewed their visit, and gave us much uneasiness.
At night the musquitoeswere very troublesome, though the weather was cold and rainy and the wind from the northwest.
The musquitoes still disturb us very much, and the blowing-flies swarm in vast numbers round the boat.
They experienced inconvenience from musquitoes in a few damp spots, just as they would have done from gnats in England.
The musquitoes were now so troublesome as to occasion the voyagers much inconvenience.
In front of these cabins a fire had been kindled, either to keep off the musquitoes or to cook their evening meal.
But I had no sooner entered the swamp than I was covered with musquitoes of the most ravenous character.
This was the season for musquitoes and black flies.
The musquitoes were particularly civil--indeed the reign of these gentlemen was nearly over for the season.
At night the musquitoes were dreadfully annoying, as my poor little Maria's neck and arms too plainly showed.
I could hear the music of the musquitoes round me; for I think there is something musical about the buzzing of a musquito, though there is nothing pleasant about its bite.
I thought I had before known what musquitoes were, but I never saw the like of those we had in this spot.
The musquitoes of the French colonies are often Simulia.
The musquitoes were now very numerous and annoying, but we consoled ourselves with the hope that their season would be short.
The weather was remarkably fine, and the temperature so mild, that the musquitoes again made their appearance, but not in any great numbers.
We marched a few miles farther in the evening, and encamped among some pines; but the comfort of a good fire did not compensate for the torment we suffered from the host of musquitoes at this spot.
The evening was very warm, and the musquitoes numerous.
The thermometer rose to 73°, many flies came forth, musquitoes shewed themselves for the first time, and one swallow made its appearance.
It may be remarked that the musquitoes disappeared when the late gales commenced.
The evening was sultry, and the musquitoes appeared in great numbers.
There are few musquitoes below Ega; above that point a musquito net is indispensable.
On feast-days, or when musquitoesare thick, the men add a little poncho and pantaloons.
Musquitoes and bedbugs do not seem to enjoy life at such an altitude, and jiggers[47] and flies are rare.
Footnote 132: Sand-flies are called by the natives musquitoes, and what we call musquitoes they call sancudos.
Footnote 115: The Chasuta Indians, Herndon says, eat musquitoes that they catch on their bodies with the idea of restoring the blood which the insect has abstracted.
We were not troubled with sand-flies after leaving the plaias of the Napo, but the musquitoes at Pebas were supernumerary.
Perhaps, however, it was a special gathering on our account, for the natives have a notion that just before the arrival of a foreigner the musquitoes come in great numbers.
As soon as the sand-flies ceased, myriads of musquitoes began their work of torture, without much preparatory piping, and kept it up all night.
The musquitoesare so thick the clerks have an operating-room, partitioned off in the center of the building with thin domestic, containing their apparatus.
Musquitoes abound in some places on the coast, and to the dwellers in tents the impression has, no doubt, been received that the air was made of these insects.
On the morrow I also was installed in a capital chamber; and if those incarnate demons the musquitoeswould have made peace with me, I should have scorned comparisons with the Nabob of the Carnatic.
The musquitoes stung them, and their tails teased them.
He was so large, that the biggest of his people seemed but musquitoesby the side of a buffalo.
The weather was pleasant and cool; we were disturbed by neither musquitoes nor flies; and the country was certainly extremely beautiful.
Although cool, the thermometer standing at 47°, musquitoes were sufficiently numerous to be troublesome this evening.
We here have the puzzle that so frequently occurs in the case of musquitoes -- on the blood of what animals do these insects commonly feed?
Numbers of fireflies were hovering about, and the musquitoes were very troublesome.
Suppose we try to find some other place," said Richard, "we seem to have come to the very spot where all the musquitoes live.
Notwithstanding the lateness of the season, a few musquitoesbegan to sing about our ears as soon as the sun came up.
Those are nothing," said Washington, "to musquitoes I have met with, that bite through a thick leather boot.
Even General Washington diverted himself by mystifying Weld the English traveller, who complained to him at Mount Vernon of musquitoes so large and fierce that they bit through his cloth coat.
Matters of this kind being thus satisfactorily settled, we gave ourselves to the musquitoes for the night.
A swarm of the most gigantic and persevering musquitoes that ever gathered tribute from human kind, lighted on us and demanded blood.
The gayest and brightest flowers will be in bloom, and the musquitoes out in full force.
All the musquitoes in the room will go out at the windows, and leave the room clear.
Musquitoes are a sort of vermin of less danger, but much more troublesome, because more frequent.
He thought he would build a fire to drive the musquitoes away; besides, he was both hungry and tired, though he had not yet found his arrow, and had nothing to eat.
But it seemed as if he were destined never to find it, for morning and noon had passed away, and the setting sun warned him, not only of the approach of night, but of musquitoes too.
The musquitoes sought the shade in the heat of the day.
The musquitoes of America resemble, in shape, those of Africa and Europe, but differ essentially in size and other particulars.
The musquitoes here were still a serious annoyance to us, but less numerous than before.
Having pitched the tent at this spot, we set out to visit the principal springs, and had walked about three miles when the musquitoes compelled us to give up our project.
Swarms of musquitoessucceeded the storm, and their tormenting stings, superadded to other inconveniences, induced us to embark, and, after taking a hasty supper to pursue our voyage down the stream during the night.
We had sometimes before procured a little rest, by closing the tent, and burning wood, or flashing gunpowder within, the smoke driving the musquitoes into the crannies of the ground.
A peculiarity about Anger is, that there are no musquitoes there, and very few of the noxious vermin that destroy the romance of tropical climes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "musquitoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
