| 单词 | wingless |
| 例句 | Rumor, that wingless bird, had shadowed over the town. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z All it ever did was take up space, dangling uselessly over my shoulder in its haversack like a wingless khaki albatross for the past four years. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I don’t want to be a doll hung up on the Wall, I don’t want to be a wingless angel. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The gleaming figure astride one of my trophies was broken, wingless, after hitting the ground. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Although wingless, it can fly and has been known to seize unwary humans by the ears and deposit them at the tops of tall trees and buildings. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Like most drakons, it was wingless, longer, and more snakelike than a dragon, and it looked hungry. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I unzip the bag and a wisp of smoke rises from the mouth of the wingless dragon. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Also present in prodigious numbers are microscopic mites and primitive wingless insects called springtails. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I don’t mind,” Kavita says while stroking the wingless dragon under its chin. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “Interesting how people will eat aku. But ask them to eat the wingless termites and that’s another thing. Yet the wingless ones are just a phase or two away from aku’,’ Obiora said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z There's a nice, humorous little tribute to Welsh poets in stanza three: they sing like wingless, ie human, nightingales. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z It represents a wingless angel, about five feet tall, pressing one hand to a brow in a gesture of grief. A Wingless Angel Comes to Light 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Sera is described as a member of the Anchorites, a group of wingless male angels. Lady Loki and the opportunity for trans representation in Marvel 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z August, even in adulthood, remains frustrated by Gigi’s outcome: “But we remained on Earth. Believing ourselves wingless.” Jacqueline Woodson's 'Another Brooklyn' is a powerful adult tale of girlhood friendships 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The human louse is a wingless, blood-sucking parasite that lives its entire life on its host. Head lice evolution mirrors human migration and colonization in the Americas 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The wingless insects hide in mattresses and bedding and feed on blood, typically biting at night. South Korea ramps up pest control after reports of bedbugs 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The wingless pests, which often clutter near beds or in crevices, are also known to extract an emotional toll. South Korea: Authorities fight bedbugs to calm public jitters 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z The males are fully-winged as adults and can fly, while the females are wingless and have to glow frantically in the summer months to attract a passing mate. The man rescuing Britain's 'magical' glow worms 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z The small wingless insects grow to about the size of an apple seed and feed on the blood of warm-blooded animals — including people sleeping at night. Even posh Vegas hotels have had bed bugs. Here's where 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z They are generally wingless, but will appear in winged form when flying off to find new food sources. First the Smoke. Then the Bugs. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Is the world ready for wingless hovercraft levitating over cities and hotrodding through congested air corridors? The Battery That Flies 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z To wrangle a ride on their honeybee hosts, wingless parasitic flies need a truly phenomenal grasp. Honeybee Parasites Have Record-Breaking Clinginess 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z My wingless entry into the Buffalo sauce arena this go-round are these irresistible fish “poppers.” Buffalo fish bites are a healthful way to indulge in the popular sauce 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The fossils of these strange, wingless animals already show traits shared with the flying reptiles, offering what the researchers call a rough image of what pterosaur predecessors were like. Pterosaur Origins Flap into Focus 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z With a winged design, as opposed to some of the wingless flying car proposals in the eVTOL world, Vertical's VA-1X gains lift. New aircraft spy opportunities amid aerospace woes 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z They hatch in the spring as wingless, glossy black nymphs with white spots, and pass through several stippled phases before maturing in midsummer. The Dreaded Lanternfly, Scourge of Agriculture, Spreads in New Jersey 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z First glimpsed in 1964 but only rediscovered two years ago, it belongs to a group of primitive, wingless relatives of insects called springtails. Introducing the April 2020 Issue 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Small and wingless, the hopping young locusts are the next wave in the outbreak that threatens more than 10 million people across the region with a severe hunger crisis. “Where it begins”: Young hungry locusts bulk up in Somalia 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z You're familiar with the marine life here, the penguins, seals and whales, but the largest indigenous land animal is actually a wingless midge. 'The closest thing on Earth to interplanetary travel' 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z We want to hurl grumpy wingless birds at building blocks and crush copious candy. Opinion | What the FaceApp freak-out really tells us 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z There were camels in pasture, a gigantic wingless emu, shrieking peacocks on the dirt paths, a pen stocked with miniature horses and donkeys. ‘I Had Finally Found the Right Place for My Son’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The wingless insect is from Europe and was first introduced to North America in the early 20th century. Forest Service keeps tabs on bugs that threaten fir forests 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The nymphs will moult grow and develop, but under the influence of the queen’s pheromone, most of them won’t fully mature, remaining permanent stay-at-home preteens – eyeless, wingless helpers. A giant crawling brain: the jaw-dropping world of termites 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The earliest known insect fossil is a 385-million-year-old wingless creature that looks like a silverfish. Mysterious Insect Fossil Gap Explained 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z It is the wingless females that are harvested, rather than the flying males. Why you may have been eating insects your whole life 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z This week, Maselko is due to discuss the team’s progress towards engineering a synthetic species of fruit fly, using a developmental gene called wingless as a poison. Synthetic Species Designed to Shun Sex with Wild Organisms 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The wingless bugs feed off human and animal blood. Bed bugs found in Wichita City Hall 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Then a swarm of wingless machines was spotted in Maine. Opinion | The never-ending search for UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z These wingless ants are female workers, toiling to ensure the colony survives and grows. Viewpoint: Is there such a thing as 'flying ant day'? - BBC News 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Also present in prodigious numbers in the soil are microscopic mites and primitive, wingless insects called springtails. Silent Spring—I 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z His ideas are such an odd assortment of left-wing, right-wing, and wingless nihilism that it’s hard to think of any movement or thinker that shares them—other than Donald Trump. Peter Thiel’s Oddly Conventional Defense of Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z They fall to the ground on a wingless “flight” with the autumn leaves. Annual Cicadas Perform Their Final Mating Calls of the Season in New York 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z After a brief stage as a pupa, it will emerge as either a male firefly or a female glowworm, fat, wingless and several times as big as the male. The enchanting, worldwide spectacle of fireflies 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z When the immature, wingless beetle larvae are most dependent, researchers found, the mother stops producing eggs and releases a chemical that functions as an anti-aphrodisiac. Beetle Moms Send a Chemical Signal: ‘Not Tonight, Honey’ 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Van Hove’s Angel is a wingless male nurse in white hospital scrubs. Theatre Laid Bare 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z They molt several times, until they look like … larger wingless cicadas. Loud cicadas result in Arkansans calling 911 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The first thing Zohner noticed about the unusual craft - basically, a wingless airplane mounted on oversized skis - was its enclosed cabin, which looked pretty warm and cozy from where Zohner was standing. Snow plane aficionados rally in Tetonia 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z The man had allegedly bought the wingless Beechcraft two-seater aircraft from a private residence and was taking it home when he stopped for a drink. Australia man takes plane to pub 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Bedbugs are wingless, reddish-brown insects that feed on the blood of people and animals. Bedbugs found in Forsyth County DSS building 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Gameplay in the original title consists of using a slingshot to fire wingless birds at pigs. The ultimate glossary of all things internet: from 4chan to Zynga 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z “We wouldn’t exactly call it a missing link, but it’s certainly an interesting intermediate between a fully winged ancestor and a wingless descendent,” Heads said. New cricket discovered in long-neglected amber collection Bristletails and firebrats are wingless, but close relatives of the fruit fly, so Hansson and his team decided to draw an evolutionary picture of insect olfaction by comparing the three species. When Did Insects Learn to Smell? 2014-05-10T12:00:57Z The females are practically wingless, having only oval flaps or “pads” where they should be. How the Fleas' Next of Kin Ended up Living on a Liverwort in Alaska 2013-07-27T01:45:00.760Z Soon, millions more will climb from the ground in which they have spent nearly two decades, morph from wingless to winged, and take to the trees for their famously noisy courtship. Cicadas Take Stage for Their Final Act on Staten Island 2013-05-23T02:15:12Z A B-52 bomber launched the remotely monitored, nearly wingless experimental aircraft, officially known as the X-51A, between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. U.S. military tests hypersonic Waverider aircraft over Pacific 2012-08-15T13:00:03Z WNT tumours, showing activated wingless pathway signalling, carry a favourable prognosis under current treatment regimens. Dissecting the genomic complexity underlying medulloblastoma 2012-08-01T17:52:34.853Z In reserve, as before, England have a natural goalscorer from Tottenham Hotspur - Jermain Defoe in a role that was Jimmy Greaves' fate, as the 'wingless wonders' evolved and he was cast aside. Dogged England revive memories of a golden summer 2012-06-21T10:10:04Z Hordes of wingless insects called silverfish poured down the rock in biblical proportions. Essay: Rock Climber Alex Honnold Tackles Yosemite’s Biggest Rock Faces 2012-06-16T02:02:19Z In March it launched the SeaExplorer, a streamlined, wingless glider with a speed of one knot—twice as fast as the American competition. Exploring the oceans: 20,000 colleagues under the sea 2012-06-07T15:06:09Z The wings will be described in connexion with the various sub-orders, but an interesting peculiarity of the Hemiptera is the occasional presence of winged and wingless races of the same species. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Seeds oblong or elliptical, very small, wingless, in one row; cotyledons often more or less oblique. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Hexapoda mostly with wings, the wingless forms clearly degraded. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z For instance, the Aptera, which included all wingless insects, was soon found to be a very unnatural assemblage and its components were distributed among the other orders. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z In many of these insects, while most individuals of the species are wingless, winged specimens are now and then met with. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Pod small, orbicular, with only one or two wingless seeds in a cell; valves nerveless, somewhat convex, the margin flattened. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Hexapoda mostly with wings; the wingless forms clearly degraded or modified. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The latter family includes both winged and wingless forms, the Book-mites belonging to the latter category. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z The larva makes and carries about a bag or basketÐlike case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Like many epizoic or parasitic insects, Hemimerus is wingless, eyeless and has relatively short and strong legs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Pod obcordate-triangular, flattened contrary to the narrow partition; the valves boat-shaped, wingless. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The wings of insects are, in all cases, developed after hatching, the younger stages being wingless, and often unlike the parent in other respects. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Like the ants they live in colonies and have a number of distinct forms, as winged and wingless, males and females, and workers and soldiers. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z This is most marked in the winged species, of which locusts, beetles, moths and butterflies, flies and wasps furnish well-known examples; and is not inconsiderable in the case of wingless and merely creeping species. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z To this resource he attributes the spread of the wingless apple-lice species. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z Seeds in a single row in each cell, wingless; their stalks slender. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In most species the majority of individuals are wingless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Some species, also, are wingless in the adult stage. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z It is noteworthy that many forms wingless in the parasitic stage are winged at certain periods, e.g. the females of Phylloxera. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z "Poor wingless prayers," he cried; "you will not get half way to heaven." The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Diffusely branched, glabrous; pedicels usually 2–4´´ long; petals white; pod ovate, 2´´ long, about twice longer than the sepals; seeds usually wingless, smooth or nearly so. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z This phenomenon occurs among species found at high elevations, among others found in arid or desert regions, and in some cases in the female sex only, the male being winged and the female wingless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The Mallophaga, or Bird-lice, are degraded wingless insects, and are parasitic chiefly on birds, but also on mammals. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z “Spectators, can this fly jump through the hoop?” becomes “Spectators can this wingless fly, jump through the flaming hoop?” Fruit Flies Use Alcohol to Self-Medicate, but Feel Bad about it Afterwards 2012-02-16T19:45:06.303Z All would have been wingless devils in the prison of flame. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Seeds in one row, wingless, the stalks broad and flat. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The wingless forms in question are always allied to winged forms, and there is every reason to believe that they have been really derived from winged forms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The Psocidæ are a small family of certain degraded wingless forms, comprising the Book-lice, which, as the name implies, infest books, feeding on the starch of the binding. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z Thysanura, this-a-nū′ra, n. an order of wingless insects of small size, undergoing no metamorphosis, the abdomen usually bearing peculiar structures which seem to be abortive limbs, the spring-tails or bristle-tails.—adjs. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Louse, lows, n. a common wingless parasitic insect, with a flat body, and short legs furnished with claws:—pl. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z L. Dràba, L. Perennial, obscurely hoary; leaves oval or oblong, the upper with broad clasping auricles; flowers corymbose; pods heart-shaped, wingless, thickish, entire, tipped with a conspicuous style.—Astoria, near New York, D. C. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z These cases render it highly probable that insects may in some circumstances become wingless, though their ancestors were winged. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z They are wingless, usually with simple eyes, and clothed with scales, and undergo no metamorphosis. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z Grab the closest soft and fuzzy over-sized wingless bird and hold on for the ride. Merry Christmas For Angry Birds 2012-01-05T16:05:40Z Unlike ticks, the wingless, reddish-brown insects stay attached to people for a blood meal for just 5 to 10 minutes, he said. All in the family: Inbreeding key to bedbug spread 2011-12-06T23:54:39Z Seeds nearly wingless.—Smooth, with a wand-like leafy stem from a bulbous base, long and grass-like conduplicate-keeled leaves, and numerous small flowers in compound racemes, forming a long terminal panicle; in summer. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z There are, in fact, existing forms of Exopterygota that are usually wingless, and that nevertheless appear in certain seasons or localities with wings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The working ants and some few species are wingless, but the great majority have four strong membranous wings, a character distinguishing them at once from the true flies, which have only one pair of wings. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects 2011-12-05T03:00:46.667Z Psyche, fled from her father’s house, fallen from all princely dignity, dethroned Princess of the Present, immoral Bacchante, corrupt and wingless, weeping tears of scarlet sin—listen! Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The Apteryx, the wingless bird of New Zealand, belongs to this order. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Glaucous, paniculately branched; leaves lanceolate, acute; flowers smaller and more scattered; seeds wingless.—Sparingly naturalized near New York. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In some parasitic Hymenoptera there is only a single embryonic membrane formed by delamination from the blastoderm, while in a few insects, including the wingless spring-tails, the embryonic membranes are vestigial or entirely wanting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z In the wingless species of Orthoptera there is little external difference, excepting in size, between the young larva and the perfect insect. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects 2011-12-05T03:00:46.667Z Let me feel your little round head, your wingless shoulders....” Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z GLOW-WORM, the popular name of the wingless female of the beetle Lampyris noctiluca, whose power of emitting light has been familiar for many centuries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Seeds numerous, wingless.—Perennials, branched from the base, simple above, with opposite leaves, the upper sessile and mostly clasping. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Many students of the group, following Brauer, have regarded the Apterygota as representing the original wingless progenitors of the Pterygota, and the many primitive characters shown by the former group lend support to this view. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Where were ye, Birds, that bless His name, When wingless to the world He came, And wordless,—tho' Himself the Word That made the blossom and the bird? Child Verse Poems Grave & Gay 2011-10-22T02:00:29.267Z Lay a heavy task upon my wingless shoulders.” Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The light given out by the wingless female insect is believed to serve as an attraction to the flying male, whose luminous organs remain in a rudimentary condition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Seeds smooth and wingless.—Small, arctic or alpine evergreen plants, resembling Club-Mosses or Heaths. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Each scale covers two seeds, wingless, about the size of honey locust seeds, oily, sweet, nutritious and of delicious flavor. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Apteryx, ap′tėr-iks, n. a bird found in New Zealand, wingless and tailless, reddish-brown, about the size of a large hen. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Love, like a bird, comes loyal to his lure; Fame flies before him, wingless else to fly. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z On the stems I could distinguish unwilling travelers—crickets, spiders, and lesser wingless fry. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Seeds flattened, wingless.—Low and much branched shrubs, with nearly evergreen and coriaceous leaves, which are scurfy, especially underneath. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In a congested city where time is a ticking cash meter, helicopters are the wingless flying cars of the wealthy and important. Fatal Helicopter Crash Provokes Flights? Critics 2011-10-06T01:24:27Z A belt of tar, applied to the trees, has been found effective in preventing the ascent of the wingless females; this needs renewing daily, until the season of their rising has passed. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z With one finger they could have pushed us down to the street a hundred feet below, or else detained us where we were, to wait like wingless flies until soldiers came to drag us back. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z Aphis or Green Fly A small, pale green louse, winged or wingless, with a soft, fat, oval body apparently too big for its legs. Making a Rose Garden 2011-07-29T02:00:21.533Z Suddenly there it was, the battered, wingless fuselage of US Airways Flight 1549, the star of what has come to be known as the “miracle on the Hudson,” rumbling by on a custom flatbed trailer. Hudson River?s ?Miracle? Lands at Museum in the South 2011-06-10T22:13:42Z She has yet to learn that human affection is a wingless thing, and cannot follow the far flights of the untrammelled spirit. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z When these eggs hatch, the brood consists wholly of females, which are wingless, and do not lay eggs, but are viviparous and produce from fifteen to twenty young lice in the course of a day. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z Again he leaned to her: “‘And think how she, far from me, with like eyes Sees, through the untuneful bough the wingless skies.’” The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z On the wingless side the male has a hook and the female a ring, and when fastened together, and only when fastened together, can they fly. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Two wingless geese flew up in the sky, As a legless hero ran hard by; While near him scampered two roasted hares, Hotly pursued by three dogs in pairs. An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics 2011-05-14T02:00:10.287Z The dragon-fly deposits its eggs in the water, where the wingless nymphs live on aquatic insects. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Most of these insects, which we find so abundant upon our trees, are wingless females. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z The morning added wings to all their souls, whereas noon always binds men's wings down,—hence Aurora goes with winged steeds, and the god of day with wingless ones. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z Fleas are wingless insects, with a laterally compressed body, small and indistinctly separated head, and short thick antennae situated in cavities somewhat behind and above the simple eyes, which are always minute and sometimes absent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z "There are no representatives of these sweet 'wingless angels' on board except the captain's spouse," said the Professor. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z Ten such bulky insects now foraged busily for grubs within the ancestral home, while the founder of the colony had grown draggled and wingless with the passing of time. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z Fortunately, these may easily be found during the winter, for the female, being wingless, never quits her cocoon, but deposits the eggs in a mass upon the outside of it. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z Can ye hold fast for shine or shower One wingless hour? Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z Hooke thought the wingless fleas jumped with all six legs. Fleas? ?Feet? Unleash That Spectacular Leap 2011-02-10T05:21:48Z A, Winged female; B, winged male; C, ovigerous wingless female; D, viviparous wingless female from plum; E, pupal stage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z The female tussock moth is a wingless, thick-bodied creature, gray in color, very downy, and about three fourths of an inch long. A Guide for the Study of Animals 2011-01-18T03:00:14.913Z They are wingless, dull-coloured, minute insects, with ugly, almost misshapen heads and bodies. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z What pirates board the unhelmed mind of the drunken to writhe and lust and despoil the alien decks—wingless, crawling abdomens, which, even in the shades, are but the ganglia of appetite!... She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z And it is a veritable island; only, instead of water, it is encompassed by rocks—rocks so high, and so steep, that nothing wingless can ever hope to escape over them into the world outside. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z The females in this moth and in others allied to it are wingless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z I’m feeling for everything with my antennæ, like a wingless insect.... The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Starting with the kiwi and cassowary, people have got into the habit of confounding flightless with wingless conditions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Thus ended the talk about the wingless birds. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z Boasting an emerald green body topped with a white roof, it looks part porpoise, part wingless aircraft, part beetle – like something from the 1930s sci-fi film Things to Come. Norman Foster's back-to-front car 2010-10-05T21:30:00Z The tubular laboratory at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, half submerged in a cow pasture, holds the wingless front portion of an Airbus A310. Lufthansa Seeks Savor in the Sky 2010-07-27T01:11:00Z The researchers noticed that invaders were often mobbed by older, wingless aphids. The role of grandmothers: Battling grannies 2010-07-15T10:43:00Z It looked like a wingless bat, the delicate brace of ribs bearing tiny symmetrical snaps on each side. The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome 2010-06-11T16:13:00Z Many forms could be distinguished upon or around it, both of winged and wingless creatures. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z The latest idea: Genetic engineering that results in wingless female mosquitoes. Without a Wing, No Prayer for Female Mosquitoes 2010-02-22T22:48:00Z These bugs are not really fleas, but springtails, a primitive wingless insect that can leap long distances using its tail. 2010-01-19T17:25:00Z Many Hexapoda have lost either one pair or both pairs of wings; cases are common of wingless genera allied to ordinary Pterygote genera. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" V. Hymenoptera, or Thin-winged Insects, with four naked membranous wings; some species, however, being wingless. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The antenn� of the males are pectinated, and those of the females simple; and in three cases the latter sex is wingless. Butterflies and Moths (British) It has roundish cones, with numerous scales and wingless seeds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Aphanip�tera, an order of wingless insects, composed of the different species of fleas. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Many wingless insects—such as lice, fleas and certain earwigs and cockroaches—are placed in various orders together with winged insects to which they show evident relationships. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" In the course of the summer, from some of these eggs are hatched females which acquire wings and lay eggs from which wingless males and females are born. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" The males have slender bodies, and their wings are full and without angles; but the females are either perfectly or nearly wingless. Butterflies and Moths (British) One of the few British species of Aculeates where the female is wingless; found in sandy places running in the sun. Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects The aphides illustrate parthenogenesis; hermaphrodite forms produced from eggs produce viviparous wingless forms, which again produce others like themselves, and thus multiply during summer, one individual giving rise to millions. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli There they settled themselves composedly, beaming and smiling upon each other like a pair of wingless cherubs, while Ned thrust forth a tin basin and demanded: “Give me my soup, mother.” Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch Now she moved into Reed's office, with motor-veils and dusters floating about her, like a solid wingless victory, and sat down in Randolph Reed's own chair. Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance But this description applies to the male only, for the female is wingless, and may be known by the tuft of hair that tips the abdomen. Butterflies and Moths (British) In the ants, however, the workers are wingless, and of a very different form from that of the queen. Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects The Basutos of South Africa ask: "What is wingless and legless, yet flies fast and cannot be imprisoned?" and answer, "The voice." The Handbook of Conundrums They were about the size of a horse-bean, and remarkably lively after their aerial but wingless flight. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series Chinese and Japanese dragons, though regarded as powers of the air, are wingless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" We know that it is a wingless fly,—a cousin to the house-flies on one side, and to the crane-flies on the other; and a more knightly-looking little creature you can not possibly imagine. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks In this case the male is winged and the female is wingless. Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects On the contrary, it was the sight of a wingless Messerschmitt 109 hurtling down to its doom about three hundred yards from where his own body seemed to hang in mid air. Dave Dawson at Casablanca Far above, the wingless plane circled, watching for any signs of life. The Variable Man Now its upended and blazing hulk tilted slowly over and collapsed burying beneath it several of the little wingless workers. World of the Drone But besides these, a number of other wingless birds, called "moas," inhabited New Zealand during the period of human occupation, and have only recently become extinct. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras The larvae are perfectly white at first and wingless, although in other respects not unlike their parents, but they are not mature insects until after the sixth casting of the skin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" But ere she came to rest, the instant indeed that her canvas went fluttering away, thirty strong men had rushed into the water and laid hold of the now wingless Psyche. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. They have gone into the earth to pass into the pupa state, coming out the following spring as adults; the males with wings to fly, the female wingless, as in fig. The Apple More than once while they waited, other columns of the wingless drones entered or emerged from the tunnel mouth at the base of the mound. World of the Drone Wingless Birds, Living and Extinct.—Almost equally valuable with mammalia in affording indications of geographical changes are the wingless birds for which New Zealand is so remarkable. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras There were chairs and stools, no perches, but that was to be expected in a wingless society. Helpfully Yours Even to loftier heights still the cry goes up; and the mighty grey eagle ruffles its angry feathers, shakes out its vast wings, and screams invective in answer to this loud-voiced boast of wingless creatures. In the Brooding Wild An excellent person but wingless; not stupid, but dull. The Crow's Nest Out there on the flat, the little wingless drones buzzed to and fro with their false seeming of animation, finishing their work. World of the Drone The extraordinary creature represented in the engraving is the “Apteryx,” or “wingless bird” of New Zealand. Happy Days for Boys and Girls Whether this is true or not, I will not pretend to say, but at any rate wingless insects may also arise, not through a slow process of elimination, but at a single step. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution It was tough to be held to the ground by a wingless motor. 35McGee caught a gleam of light through the shutters of the upstairs windows. Aces Up Catching her by the waist, he hummed a waltz and away they floated, over the pine-needles, he in gray and she in white, like wingless spirits of the wood. The Pines of Lory "So, if we wait till some of the wingless ones enter from this end, and hurry through the tunnel close behind them—" Qanya left the sentence uncompleted. World of the Drone The chalice is a mixture of late Gothic and early Renaissance in character, with two little angels, now wingless, holding to its edge, and treading with one foot on the knop, thus forming handles. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Before he is aware of it other and stronger gusts duplicate the dastardly deed of the first wingless wizard of the plains, and the hapless voyager is left gasping. Trail Tales By this greed of the jay the wingless nuts take flight, oaks are planted amid the pines, and chestnuts amid the hemlocks. Ways of Nature To ask why, is a blind question, but if we ask how the wingless seeds get sown, we may add to our knowledge. Under the Maples Meantime, the wingless drones about their beleaguered citadel worked feverishly to clear the way for their fighters that still remained undamaged on the ground.... World of the Drone In the harbour below, far down, The junks like fowl in a flock Were tossing in wingless terror, or fled Fluttering in from the shock. Many Gods They are wingless; for where these live there blows no wind, Nor aught spreads, gross as air, nor any kind Of substance, whereby spirits' march is stopped. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Had success departed at last from the mathematical class-room, after resting there as in a temple of wingless victory for three generations? Young Barbarians With the fireflies, it is the male that dominates; the female is a little soft, wingless worm on the ground, always in the larval state. Under the Maples There were brushes with the enemy, for the wingless drones still came and went about the mountainside and from time to time their winged kindred flew overhead. World of the Drone Somewhat similar is the cocus insect, among whom the males are very degenerate, small, blind and wingless. The Truth About Woman The poor little wingless kiwi, with a mere nothing of a neck—for a cursore. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The Eciton drepanophora attacks and carries off all kinds of insects, especially wingless species, such as maggots, caterpillars, larvæ of cockroaches, etc. The Industries of Animals As good fortune will have it, a great many flowers close to their pollen yield an ample supply of nectar: a food esteemed delicious by the whole round of insects, winged and wingless. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer On the ground, a like confusion had befallen the wingless workers. World of the Drone There slept, foreshadowed, the bliss to be, When a tenderer life that home should see, In the wingless cherub that climbed his knee. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 Slight and tall, 'Mid them, keen-eyed the wingless creature stood Like daughter of the sun on earth new-lit:— That Faith she shewed of all things first and last; All lesser truths its prophets. Legends of the Saxon Saints It represented the Theotokos as the Leader of God's people in war, and around it gathered memories of wonderful deliverances and glorious triumphs, making it seem the banner of wingless victory. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture Grôm tore them off, and slammed the writhing, wingless bodies into the fire. In the Morning of Time A couple of times before they had huddled like this, while flights of the winged enemies whistled over ... but the wingless ones? World of the Drone Imagine what you would feel if you had lived wingless all your life among people who could fly. Harding's luck Its legs were carved in the form of twisting, wingless dragons. The Saracen: The Holy War It was peculiarly the age of egg-bearing animals, winged and wingless. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Believes that bedbugs or some similar wingless parasite conveys the disease. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases That explained one mystery, at least—how, if the winged and wingless strangers' home base was somewhere above the cliffs, the wheeled machines contrived to forage at the foot of the Barrier. World of the Drone The new genus Dinornis, which includes also the celebrated moa, or gigantic bird of New Zealand, and bears some resemblance to the present Apteryx, or wingless bird of that country . Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia They are gray with black margins, about one-twenty-fifth to one-twelfth inch long, and wingless. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) He laboriously loads its pages with his carefully verified material, but his imagination is wingless, the result far from convincing. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) The gigantic, wingless Moas—allied to the ostrich and the cassawary—had grown up there, and were the masters of the situation. More Science From an Easy Chair Seeds wingless, the spermoderm forming a narrow border with a rudimentary prolongation. The Genus Pinus A fox was also observed in its summer dress; and these, with a pair of ravens, some wingless ducks, and several snow-buntings, were all the animals noticed at this place. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage In Virginia's heart, Love stirred suddenly, and blind, wingless, imprisoned, struggled for freedom. Virginia Lance's glance shifted upward, scanning the velvet backdrop of frosty white points of light against which the slender, silverish, almost wingless form stood framed. Next Door, Next World They are very strange wingless birds, about the size of a large Dorking fowl. More Science From an Easy Chair In both subsections there is a gradual evolution from a wingless nut to one with an effective wing, adnate in one subsection, adnate and articulate in the other. The Genus Pinus These facts about lice and spiders show how wingless insects can go long distances without wings of their own. Seed Dispersal The mature males have two wings but the mature females are wingless. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Nearly all the species of mammals found in Australia are confined to that country, as the wingless birds of New Zealand are confined to that, and the sloth, armadillo, and other animals, to South America. The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science A Discourse They were thus able to get within a couple of hundred yards, when the wingless birds showed signs of alarm. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Seeds wingless, the nut large, wholly or partly bare of membranous cover. The Genus Pinus Not through the efforts of the fish itself, which now, badly damaged, swims but feebly; nor do the gulls appropriate it, but a wingless biped—no other than Ned Gancy. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Direct the attention of the pupils to the difference between the male and female aphides; the males have wings, but the females are wingless. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study There are three sets of neuters in each colony—major and minor workers and soldiers: also one wingless queen is found in each nest. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science It appears to have been named in memory of a certain small wingless insect. The Greater Love I, old and wingless, weak and worn, O'er his sad fate can only mourn. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse They make their first appearance as little wingless things, swarming over the ground like ants, when they are called “santones.” The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Closely allied, though generally wingless, is that enemy of our peace, the bed-bug. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses In one of these chambers I found a wingless queen in their midst. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science In England we have two species of insects that are called by this name, which properly belongs only to a kind of wingless beetle, found along the hedgerows and moist banks during the summer. Chatterbox, 1906 “Perhaps it’s a species of wingless, legless mountain duck, unknown to low countries?” The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp Among them is the emeu, a kind of ostrich that practically is wingless. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The next morning, there was not an individual, winged or wingless, to be seen above ground; the nest itself was comparatively empty; and what few occupants there were seemed to be in a semi-torpid condition. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses Common apple aphis showing a winged and wingless agamic summer forms at a and c, one with wing pads formed at b, and a recently born young at d. An Elementary Study of Insects Thus, the Apteryx, or Kiwi, of New Zealand, a curious, almost wingless bird, lays an egg which is about a quarter of its own weight. Chatterbox, 1906 Beetles, wingless, in Madeira, 135. —— with deficient tarsi, 135. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) Thysanura: fringe-tails; wingless, mandibulate insects without metamorphosis; with anal appendages; body covered with scales; thoracic segments similar. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology They resemble in their general form the larva of Ephemerids, and perhaps more closely the immature Perla, and also the wingless cockroaches. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses The larvæ, also, of some moths are as complicated and are more active than the wingless and limbless females, which never leave their pupa-case, never feed and never see the daylight. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 However, our expression will be: That wingless, larval forms of life, in numbers so enormous that migration from some place external to this earth is suggested, have fallen from the sky. The Book of the Damned "A wingless little eagle on a barren tree," he smiled. Erik Dorn Apterygogenea: those insects that are wingless in all stages and presumed to be descended from ancestors which never were winged: see pterygogenea. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology Having no more inclination to fly, they pluck off their wings and may be seen running about wingless. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses It was about three times her size, and slim, low, and wingless. The Adventures of Maya the Bee Fall of ants, Cambridge, England, summer of 1874—"some were wingless." The Book of the Damned Time—another superfluous element, a tick-tock for the little wingless ones to crawl by. Erik Dorn Corrodentia: an ordinal term meaning gnawers: net-veined or wingless: mandibulate, mouth formed for gnawing; transformation incomplete; thorax incompletely agglutinated: = Psocoptera: includes Termitidae, Psocidae and Mallophaga. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology Having endeavored to show that the caterpillar is a later production than the young, wingless cockroach, with which geological facts harmonize, we have next to account for the origin of a metamorphosis in insects. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses The father of these three birds—wingless, though fairest of the fair, was a prominent attorney of St. Anthony and one of its aldermen. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Enormous fall of ants, Nancy, France, July 21, 1887—"most of them were wingless." The Book of the Damned I have heard that there are similar wingless birds in New Zealand; but as no Englishman has ever caught sight of one, I was inclined to doubt the fact.” The South Sea Whaler Anoplura: wingless species without metamorphosis, habits epizoötic, thoracic segments similarly developed: a composite aggregation which includes both the biting and sucking lice. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology The Flea is also a wingless fly, and is probably, as has been suggested by an eminent entomologist, as Baron Osten Sacken informs us, a degraded genus of the family to which Mycetobia belongs. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses This is a wingless bird, the body of which is about double the size of that of a large turkey, but its long legs make it five or six feet in height. In the Eastern Seas You observe the peculiar difference between the wingless female, d, and the winged male, e. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Excuse me for interrupting you, but I just wanted to tell you that Ma is a wingless angel. Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer Parasitica: the sucking lice: wingless; without metamorphosis; mouth with piercing lancets; thoracic segments similar; habits epizoötic. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology It is a sort of soap made by the activity of small frog-hoppers while they are still in the wingless larval stage, before they begin to hop. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told One afternoon my search for the abode of the genii led me to the wingless side of the house, a side I rarely visited. Scottish Ghost Stories It is the habit of this wingless female to crawl up the trunk of some near-by tree in order to deposit her eggs upon the twigs. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Among the earliest animals brought into this Celtic work we find the dog and the dragon; the latter both wingless and winged, according to convenience or requirement. Illuminated Manuscripts There are also no less than six species of wingless wasps, beautifully coloured in red, black, and white. The Human Side of Animals In any case, these wingless creatures make aerial journeys. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Without any hesitation I plunged forward, in the direction of the wingless side of the house, where there was a long, narrow, stained window that commanded an immediate prospect of the white garden. Scottish Ghost Stories The individuals that hatch from eggs are generally wingless females, and their young, born alive, are both winged and wingless. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition It is only necessary here to mention one anomalous form, Enoicyla pusilla, in which the mature female is wingless and the larva is terrestrial, living in moss or decayed leaves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" It had not been afraid to trust itself to Arthur; and his weakness had made it a wingless thing, dragged down by the suffering of her body. The Judgment of Eve The smaller rodentlike things, the two species of wingless diving birds, and an odd assortment of reptiles and amphibians sharing the island were all the burrowers' prey. Key Out of Time And was not that ancestor probably a wingless, though not a legless mammal? Evolution An Investigation and a Critique On the ground we now have a fair showing of aeroplanes, but mostly of the wingless sort. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I The termite neuters are subdivided into two classes, soldiers and workers, both wingless and blind. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America The wingless aeroplane is suspended from the balloon by cables of galvanized wire. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights The wingless boy has the high, full forehead which marks an active mind. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation And the wingless Love smiles sadly as he speaks: "Seek your art, O daughter of a Greek mother! and you will find in it the answer to your question." Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Tom, you are a cherub—a wingless cherub. Gypsy Breynton But we are not left to restore the temple of wingless Victory in our imagination merely, aided by description and by fragment. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Once I observed one of the larger ones, about two feet long, pursuing a frog in our meadow, and it was wonderful to see how fast the legless, footless, wingless, finless hunter could run. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth They are wingless sprites, playful as human children, but with a grace and beauty not of earth. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation But oh the lovesomeness of that wingless Love, the sensuous psalmody that seems about to part the young lips, and the glad eyes one may fancy glancing under that careless infant brow! Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 The workers and soldiers are wingless, and differ solely in the shape and armature of the head. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. The seeds are wingless or have only very narrow wings around them. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin We are old men trying to sing the loves of children; we are wingless bipeds trying to understand the gods. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Along the shore of the sleeping lake our engine swept like a great, black, wingless bird of night. The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories On the rose-bush, you can generally pick off a few such larger winged forms, side by side with the wee green wingless insects. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Both king and queen are wingless, and are of larger size than their subjects. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. At a distance of some fifty yards from where I stood I then perceived a huge, wingless bird. Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century How beautiful!—Was this not one of eld, That Chaos on his boundless bosom held, Till Earth came forward in a rush of storm, Closing his ribs upon her wingless form? The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras And then the world we shorten with our feet That wake no echoes, but the hornèd owl Sigheth to think that thus our wingless speed All but outdoes that of the tree-dwellers. The Princess Pocahontas This brood is again wingless, and it proceeds at once to bud out several generations more, by internal gemmation, as long as the warm weather lasts. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Few readers are unacquainted with the Aphides, or plant-lice, those little wingless insects which infest our plants and herbs in myriads in summer. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Apteryx, wingless bird of New Zealand, 44, 200. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope We cannot doubt that the ancestors of these wingless insects possessed wings, which in the course of time have been lost by the whole species or by the members of the female sex. The Life-Story of Insects Our illustration shows the wingless female and pupa natural size and magnified. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition In April, the winter eggs of this species, laid in the bark of an oak, each hatch out a wingless imperfect female, which M. Lichtenstein calls the foundress. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science In the recumbent wingless sphinx of Egypt we see anthropomorphic ideas of religion emerging out of the gross animal-worship of more primitive times. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Finally the ostrich and wingless bird of New Zealand—the Apteryx—have wings that are useless vestiges, which, in the latter case, are hidden under the brushlike feathers covering the body. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope But there are species of insects in which some generations are winged and others wingless; a winged mother gives birth to wingless offspring, and a wingless parent to young with well-developed wings. The Life-Story of Insects I hear Mr. Crotch87 disputed some of your facts about the wingless insects, but he is a crotchety man. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 The fourth type here produce perfect male and female insects, which are wingless, and have no sucking apparatus. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Away sped Mollie—swift as a little, wingless Mercury—down the avenue, through Union Square, to the place of tryst. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week It was Glory, a stern wingless Victory, beckoning him across a continent. The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) In late autumn tiny wingless males and females are found in large numbers on the withered leaves. The Life-Story of Insects Struck with Bhima's mace, those elephants, running off from him, fell down with cries of pain, like wingless mountains. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Burnt his hands, but said nothing ... flicked the wingless, blackened body to the floor.... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Some are wingless, and rise into the air by their own inherent power. Myths and Legends of China Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, I, 48: "the wingless, crawling hours." Mathilda We may now turn our attention to some examples of the remarkable alternation of winged and wingless generations in the yearly life-cycle of the same species, mentioned at the end of the last chapter. The Life-Story of Insects If she sees me wingless, she coughs, and throws out a green light, but says nothing. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Among the cows, the starlings were shot into tatters, so that they crawled wingless, legless, maimed, into holes in the stone fences to die. Norse Tales and Sketches Year after year, therefore, those individuals which had shorter wings, or which used them least, were preserved; and thus, in time, terrestrial, wingless, or imperfectly winged races or species have been produced. Darwinism (1889) No wingless living creature could make that descent without forfeiture of life. Mavericks Many generations of virgin female aphids, some wingless, others winged when adult, succeed each other through the summer months. The Life-Story of Insects Hence they made statues of Victory wingless—so that she should not fly away. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Charred bones have been found in connection with native "ovens;" and the traditions of the Maories contain circumstantial accounts of gigantic wingless Birds, the "Moas," which were hunted both for their flesh and their plumage. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science But the most curious and beautiful case of alluring protection is that of a wingless Mantis in India, which is so formed and coloured as to resemble a pink orchis or some other fantastic flower. Darwinism (1889) Two long lines of wingless wasps were mounting towards him. Oberheim (Voices) A winged parent brings forth young which remain always wingless, and wingless adults produce young which acquire wings. The Life-Story of Insects Near these wrecks of the dodo, and in the same case, is the New Zealand wingless bird, now almost extinct, but to scientific men an interesting link between the bird and the mammalia. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits A wingless bird of New Zealand, belong to the order Cursores. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science The extinct Moas of New Zealand—huge wingless birds allied to the living Apteryx—illustrate the same general law. Darwinism (1889) Most of them have iridescent feathers, several are wingless, and one at least has teeth. A Trip to Venus Insects may thus become secondarily wingless, that is to say be manifestly the offspring of winged parents, and such wingless forms may on the other hand give rise to offspring or descendants with well-developed wings. The Life-Story of Insects The figure is now wingless, but holes can be seen which once attached them to the statue. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits In Madagascar, bones have been discovered of another huge wingless Bird, which must have been as large as, or larger than, the Dinornis giganteus, and which has been described under the name of Æpiornis maximus. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science In other cases the wingless Madeira species are distinct from, but closely allied to, winged species of Europe. Darwinism (1889) Whether this is true or not, I will not pretend to say; but at any rate wingless insects may also arise, not through a slow process of elimination, but at a single step.... Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation Frequently, as in the case of the aphids, many wingless generations intervene between two winged generations. The Life-Story of Insects How doth yonder miniature featness, Though wingless, with gossamer wit, Foregather mellifluent sweetness, While Fates unrelenting permit— Wise heir of bright hours, completeness Of blossoms that flicker and flit. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 Of special interest to ornithologists were the native wingless birds of New Zealand. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Only the shearwaters moaning in their burrows, the little wingless rail skulking from one grass tussock to another, and the saucy finch remained. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation I may recall in this connection that wingless flies also arose in our cultures by a single mutation. Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation Moreover there are whole orders of parasitic insects, such as the lice and fleas, which, showing clear affinity to orders of winged insects, are believed to be secondarily wingless. The Life-Story of Insects I will rehearse my fault: I, wingless, thought myself on high to lift Among the winged—I set these feet that halt To run against the swift. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Through boundless space, ’mid shining spheres, Those wingless heralds fly; Proclaiming through the lapse of years That God still reigns on high. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland Moa, the name of several species of New Zealand and Australian birds, from 2 to 14 ft. high, and quite wingless; almost extinct since the 17th century; two living specimens were captured in 1876. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge I picked up the little wingless cherubs, scarcely bigger than my fist, and their blue eyes smiled at me, as if they had really enjoyed their aerial flight. The Gentleman from Everywhere He took Gilbert an evening paper, and then subsided into a pensive silence until the fowl appeared in an agreeable frizzling state, fresh from the gridiron, but a bird of some experience notwithstanding, and wingless. Fenton's Quest In front of her she held, one hand grasping each leg, what seemed to me to be an ungainly and wingless goose. The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories The swaying of the cane-brakes—near and far—signalled the secret movements of the wingless wild things which had only stealth to guard them against the cruelty of nature and against one another. Round Anvil Rock A Romance It is most disgusting to feel soft wingless insects, about an inch long, crawling over one's body. The Voyage of the Beagle A finless fish, a wingless eagle, or a dumb lark could not have been more miserable than Grim was when a succession of holidays, like Easter or Christmas, compelled him to be idle. Boyhood in Norway The male has rudimentary wings; the female is wingless. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S One expects to capture a demi-god who hits the earth only in high places; the other to wed a wingless angel who will make his Edenic bower one long-drawn sigh of ecstatic bliss. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 Turning quickly he saw that the thing was what he had immediately guessed it to be—a headless and wingless Wieroo corpse. Out of Time's Abyss Every hour or so Mr Button would shake his lethargy off, and rise and look round for "seagulls," but the prospect was sail-less as the prehistoric sea, wingless, voiceless. The Blue Lagoon: a romance A third of the rarest moths of the collection for the man of India were antennaless, legless, wingless, and often headless. A Girl of the Limberlost Who are you that you dare to descend wingless into the abysms of my soul, that you can smile away my torture and my suffocation? The Indian Lily and Other Stories They both have the ability to climb giddy heights, inaccessible to any other wingless biped. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870 Prevent the ascent of the wingless females by means of sticky bands or wire-screen traps. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) What indeed, even for the vulgar, is or can an archangel be but a man with wings, better or worse than the wingless species according as the feathers are white or black? The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thy sad heart, wingless, weak, Is sunk in this black shade So deep, thy small hands seek, Vainly, the pulse God made. Poems Whoever else might escape there was no hope for that wingless old man. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Surely it does so, in those delicious dreams about flying which haunt us poor wingless mortals, which would seem to give my namesake's philosophy the lie. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography The female moths are wingless, and in late fall or early spring crawl up the trunks of the trees to lay their eggs on the branches. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Some one's near, sweet-sounding voice answered him: "You are upon the earth, not in Paradise, and we have no need of wings—we fly wingless." The Created Legend In the lunettes above, wingless angels are hovering with the cross, the column, and other instruments of Christ's agony, which they clasp with a loving devotion. Cambridge Sketches I mean the apteryx, that eccentric, wingless recluse which hides itself in the scrub jungles of New Zealand. Concerning Animals and Other Matters It may be, ere my crafty father's line Sprang from Erectheus, some artificer, Who found you roaming wingless on the hills, Naked, asserting godship in the dearth Of loftier claimants, fashioned you the same. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 Clogged with mortality and wingless, we Cannot pursue an angel in her flight: Only to gaze exhausts our utmost might. Sonnets Among the ants rushing about there were several with wings; one took flight; one was seized by a wingless ant and dragged down into a cellar, as if to prevent its taking wing. The Open Air But I have been particularly wingless during the whole six weeks of our absence, and have clone literally nothing but use my eyes. Memories of Hawthorne So the Lord they answered, saying:— Mind and strength Thy creature give, Form him in our very image, Lord, but wingless let him live! Songs of Labor and Other Poems They found that the penguins, the great wingless birds which sit up and look just like people, enjoyed listening to a gramophone, which they set going for their benefit. Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns But all orations, read long after their delivery, are like spent missiles, wingless and cold: they retain the deformities of passion, without the fire. Lectures and Essays The most ancient Insects would probably have most resembled these wingless larvae of the existing Orthoptera. Facts and Arguments for Darwin Angels might survive the test, but not wingless man. A Fool and His Money A tussock, a clump of flax, a tuft of tall tohi grass, all serve as hiding-places; and, wingless as she is, the weka can hold her own very well against her enemies, the dogs. Station Amusements in New Zealand "The thing was about one hundred feet long, cigar-shaped, and wingless," he described it. The Flying Saucers are Real He said it was wingless, but a swift runner. Following the Equator — Part 1 How if she were a wingless angel,— made woman? Ardath The scream which she emitted was as shrill with terror as any wingless woman's. Angel Island Few hear my word; it soars above The subtlest senses of the swarm Of wretched things which know not love, Their Psyche still a wingless worm. Angel in the House Observers at the air base were astounded to see what appeared to be a huge, wingless craft streak overhead, trailing a varicolored exhaust. The Flying Saucers are Real Lo, I set wings to thy feet that have been wingless, Till the utter race be run; Till the priestless temples cry to the thrones made kingless, Are we not also undone? Songs Before Sunrise With Termites there are, as Fritz Muller has shown, both winged and wingless males and females, besides the workers. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species In that case, she will be a perfect mate to the wingless man. Angel Island Yet would I Fain cast in moulded rhymes that do me wrong Some little part of all my love: but why Should weak and wingless words be fain to fly? Locrine: a tragedy Such a wingless rocket ship would require tremendous jet power to keep it in the air. The Flying Saucers are Real Such small wingless insects as might pilfer nectar without bringing to their hostess any pollen from other blossoms are held as fast as on bird-lime. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors He crawled along like some minute wingless variety of fly. Main-Travelled Roads But on the other hand, should she grow to womanhood with wings, she would be no true mate to a wingless man unless she could also walk. Angel Island The custom of the country—that weighty, wingless creature born of time and of the earth—had its limbs fast twined around her. The Country House Another wingless aircraft was sighted in August 1947, by two pilots for an Alabama flying service. The Flying Saucers are Real By the way, I saw somewhere during the last week or so a statement of a man rearing from the same set of eggs winged and wingless aphides, which seemed new to me. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Here, I found running about, a small olive-green species which never took flight; and more rarely, a fine purplish black wingless insect, which was always found motionless in crevices, and was therefore, probably nocturnal. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Had he been a winged creature he would have flown straight up; but being a sober wingless animal, he stumped on with his two happy legs. Sir Gibbie The ocelli are absent in the females of certain insects, as in the Mutillidae; and here the females are likewise wingless. The Descent of Man It was at Bethel, Alabama, just after sunset, when a huge black wingless craft swept across their course. The Flying Saucers are Real I fear you will not admit such a small accident as the wingless birds having been transported on icebergs. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 He can rove about with Duhan among the gorse and heath, and their wild summer tenantry winged and wingless. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 This, if Paganel was right, would confirm the opinion of Dr. Hochstetter and other travelers on the present existence of the wingless giants of New Zealand. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant The members of this lowly organised order are wingless, dull-coloured, minute insects, with ugly, almost misshapen heads and bodies. The Descent of Man Before the pilot could begin to close in, the odd wingless ship pulled away. The Flying Saucers are Real In the third column have you really materials to speak of confirming the proportion of winged and wingless insects on islands? More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 These several considerations make me believe that the wingless condition of so many Madeira beetles is mainly due to the action of natural selection, combined probably with disuse. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition I, a wingless mortal, sporting With the tresses of the sun? New Poems A blackbird in a wicker cage, That hung and swung 'mid fruits and flowers, Had learnt the song-charm, to assuage The drearness of its wingless hours. Poems — Volume 1 To power a hundred-foot wingless ship, especially at those speeds, would take enormous force. The Flying Saucers are Real Would not my argument about wingless insular insects perhaps apply to truly Alpine insects? for would it not be destruction to them to be blown from their proper home? More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 "Poor wingless prayers," he cried, "you will not get half-way to heaven." The Cloister and the Hearth Then the wingless creatures would rise on the face of the earth like snow, and the poor lean stalks of wheat and barley that were coming green out of the ground would wither before them. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable Huge crickets, black and bottle green, and wingless grasshoppers of the most extravagant dimensions, were tumbling about our horses' feet, and lizards without numbers were darting like lightning among the tufts of grass. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life Your case of the wingless insects near the Rocky Mountains is extremely curious. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 |
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