The worm lept up, the worm lept down, She plaited round the stane, And as the ship came to the land She banged them off again.
She 's a laidler worm at Spindlestone Heughs, These seven years and three.
The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin worm doth chide; Gin we be mist out o our place, A sair pain we maun bide.
To this day may be seen the cave This monsterous worm embowered, And the stone trough where seven cows' milk She every day devoured.
Her hellish spells seize on my heart, And quick will alter me; For eer the seting sun is down A laidler worm I'll be.
I wish I was at Spindlestone Heughs, This laidler wormto see.
And he tossed the apple, worm and all, out of the window.
And when the blossom turned into an apple there would be a tiny baby-worm to feed upon the white pulp.
But the red worm never reaches the goal of his visions and dreams until he is triumphantly impaled on the fishhook of the barefooted boy, Who sees other visions and dreams other dreams, Of fluttering suckers in shining streams.
The red worm delves in the sod and dines on clay; he makes no after-dinner speeches; he never responds to a toast; but silently revels on in his dark banquet halls under the dank violets or in the rich mould by the river.
At last, Mackaye, who, as I found afterwards, had been watching all along my altered mood, contrived to worm my secret out of me.
They say, man is the microcosm, Mr. Locke; but the man of science finds every worm and beetle a microcosm in its way.
Yet His are the lips which three times over describe the consequence of impenitence and sin, as "the worm that never dies and the fire that is not quenched.
He knows full well, that so long as you do not "strive," you must come at last to the worm that never dies, and the fire that is not quenched.
The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.
A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age.
I am but as a worm before the King of Egypt and Syria, and yet in my own land something my name may avail.
There is a sort of glow-worm courage," he said, "that shows only by night.
Illustration] Well, late that night the unhappy couple got to scrapping again, and the worm turned and gave his wife a most unmerciful beating.
They rival the ill-used mole in the number of wire-worm they destroy.
Dissection has proved that the latent cause of this malady is a minute worm of the genius fasciola, which is found adhering to the internal part of the windpipe, or trachea.
If theworm is not destroyed, the death of the bird ensues "by suffocation from the highly inflamed state of the respiratory apparatus.
Perhaps the intervals of feeding depend on the worm supply rather than the dietary principles of the parents.
The worm dangling from the tip of his beak was almost as large as the bird, and the little fellow had to crook his tail to keep from being overbalanced and going on his bill to the ground.
He held a worm in his bill till he was tired, changed it to his claw, letting it dangle from that for a while; and then, as she would make no sign, finally flew off.
She hopped about the nestling with tail up and crest raised, chattering to it in low mysterious tones; and when I suspected her of giving her worm to it, suddenly turned her head and looked away with a suspiciously non-committal air.
But there's a worm that loves the bud, And there is one that loves the bloom, And there is one that seeks its food Within the dark and dreary tomb.
There is a worm that loves the bud, And there is one that loves the bloom, And there is one that seeks its food Within the dark and dreary tomb.
There is a worm that loves the bud, And there is one that loves the bloom, And there is one that seeks its food Within the dark and silent tomb.
By night the worm has drawn them into his gallery beneath the surface, and they have formed his food to again become the richest guano, to help the succulent growth of green grass and corn.
At first it has a repellent sound, but we quickly learn how clumsy and prejudiced have been our views of the despised worm thrown up by every ploughshare.
From worm T the spirit flows into a suitable receiver Z.
At the exit end of the condensing worm K the tube is bent in a U form as at L, one arm of which has a curved open-ended continuation n, through which the air in the worm is expelled.
The vapors from the still are condensed in worm C and the condensed liquid drops down into compartment E.
The liquor is boiled in A and the vapors pass off into the worm B, which is surrounded by the cold water of the condenser, the distillate being drawn off at f.
In order to conveniently regulate the temperature of the mash the vat may be provided with a copper worm at the bottom thereof, through which cold water is forced.
From the upper part of this barrel, which acts as a concentrator, the vapors pass to a copper worm immersed in a tub of cold water.
If, however, the fire is low, the pressure of vapor in the worm will decrease and the pressure of the outside air will force down the liquid in leg D and up leg C into the ball.
The heated vapors passing through the worm B will soon heat up the water in C thereby retarding perfect condensation.
The condensed spirit= gathered over the plates v passes out through the pipe y to the condensingworm T.
A, made of tinned copper, the condenser C which may be made of metal or wood and the worm B made of a coil of tinned copper pipe.
If any vapors escape the condensing plates they pass into R and are condensed in the worm T also.
By this means the lowest part of the worm will be kept sufficiently cool to make a rapid condensation of the vapors.
C is a worm the end of which passes out to a compartment E through an inclined partition F.
If fire is too violent the vapors will pass out of the worm uncondensed.
A glow-worm could not find his mate, it was he responsible for all the damage done!
But the Serpent-Worm which you slew, a fearsome fellow, was he not?
This is where I caught my first fish this morning," whispered Clay, as he put a nice fat worm on the hook and dropped it in the water.
A ripping noise, a sharp crack--and the worm eaten plank came free of the beams, leaving a gaping orifice in the very center of the floor, four feet long by a foot and a half wide.
So presently he made a jab at it with his curved beak, and in a moment the pale worm had twisted itself tightly round his silly neck, and dragged him screaming and fluttering under the water.
He could not see a foot before him, and could only worm his way among them, testing each before he trusted it, and finding at times monsters become but mediocre when his hand was on them.
It seemed a profanation to break the iron column of his neck, and give to the worm his belted chest.
A worm fence stretched along the road broken by two battered gate posts, and between the road and the house, the lane was crossed by a second fence and gate.
The worm has turned at last, Nan, and your bond-man is free.
I would not be a worm to crawl A writhing suppliant in thy way; For love is life, is heaven, and all The beams of an immortal day.
Sir Charles, whose custom it was to worm out the truth respecting anything and everything, at once looked round for someone willing to make enquiries and to report upon the subject.
The common earth-worm is attacked and devoured by a centipede (Geophilus electricus).
Mr. Sheppard saw one attack a worm ten times its own size, round which it twisted itself like a serpent, and which it finally mastered and devoured.
The wire-worm is particularly destructive for a few years in gardens recently converted from pasture ground.
The thread spun by spiders is in substance similar to the silk of the silk-worm and other caterpillars, but of a much finer quality.
Even the clover-weevil is not secure within the legumen of that plant; nor the wire-worm in the earth, from their ichneumonidan foes.
Ay, but if a worm had bitten ye, man, wouldn't you squeeze it the harder?
