单词 | emmet |
例句 | Born in the west country too – I lived both in Devon and Cornwall – so holidaymakers were "grockles" east of the river Tamar and "emmets", or ants, west of it, swarming and sad in Pakamacs. Summer readings: Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet 2011-08-03T09:40:08Z And so the region depends on tourism — the spending of “emmets,” a Cornish term for ants and for holidaymakers from “up country.” Cornwall, where G-7 leaders are hosted at a beach resort, is one of the poorest regions in Britain 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z I had forgotten that I had told him, four or five days ago, my hatred for all cities, and especially for that great mound of greedy emmets, which, unfortunately, is the capital of this country. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z O Thou who givest sight to emmet's eyes, And strength to puny limbs of feeble flies, To Thee we will ascribe Almighty power, And not base, unbecoming qualities. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z And many another he might phrase Who studies as they pass The human emmet's social ways, Through observation's glass. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z But the place was one where we had enjoyed many singular proofs of the divine love which shaped the mountains but has also a particular care for the emmets which nestle at their feet. In Answer to Prayer The Touch of the Unseen 2011-09-23T02:00:24.177Z The centipede, the spider, the maggots, the emmets, the bats, the rusty armour and the tattered flags, all help to deepen the sense of desolation and decay. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z "I thought my master a wise man; but this man makes my master a fool," says the housemaid in Dean Swift; and it is thus that the emmet Blazer befools you, turn where you may. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Michael leaned over the parapet and saw the little people busy as emmets at the base of the tower on whose summit he had the right to stand. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Cloistral he saw Oxford, and by the base of St. Mary's Tower the people, small as emmets, hurrying. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Too much for Heaven to make one emmet more? Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes That the similes of the emmets and of the frogs in Camo�ns are happily expressed and applied, is indisputable. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem What monuments120 Hath man, since then, the lord, the emmet, raised On earth! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 Already, thought Michael, he was one of the people, small as emmets, swarming at the base of this slim and lovely tower. Sinister Street, vol. 2 It was an old print and the people small as emmets, who thronged the base of that slim and lovely tower, were dressed in a bygone fashion that very much appealed to Michael. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Men were seen skipping along the lighted ramparts, as busy as emmets collecting stores for the dreary days of winter. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment Seen from these skies, How small those emmets in our eyes! Old and New London Volume I Vain is the love of emmets, or of bees and coral-insects. A Modern Symposium Emerson talks of his titmouse as Raphael talks of his emmet. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index My eighth is in emmet, not in ant. Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Then up and spake the youngest Trold, As emmet small to view: “O here is come a Christian man, But verily he shall rue.” Ellen of Villenskov and Other Ballads But the one thing which made them most grotesque was their habit of tying a cord tightly across the stomach, which made them appear like great emmets. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century The course of Empire must have its way; individuals are but emmets in the path. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century To spend his time in idle song, The thoughtless grasshopper was wrong; And not to give a small supply, The emmet mean and niggardly. Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress Fly agile arrow, rattling in thy speeding Over the busy emmet's roof of clay, And waken spiritual life! Strife and Peace They were ants, but of a very much larger species than the little red-and-black "emmets" which exist in the meadows. Nature Near London Below, appeared the houses of Strasbourg ... shrunk to rabbit-hutches--and the people ... to emmets! A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two In an ant-republic, laws are instinctively obeyed quite as implicitly as though they were intelligibly proclaimed to all of the emmet citizens. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Once a dream did wave a shade O'er my angel-guarded bed, That an emmet lost its way When on grass methought I lay. Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library I spitted frogs; I crushed a heap of emmets; A hundred of them to a single soul, And that but scanty weight too. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 A score of watchers—in the distance they looked like emmets—were gathered by the edge of the surf. The Ship of Stars But after Christ's birth they began to grow smaller and smaller, and at length turned into emmets and vanished from the earth. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches The keyhole lodged the earwig and her brood, The emmets of the steps had old possession, And march'd in search of their diurnal food In undisturb'd procession. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood Quite different from that of ordinary soirées, where the coup d'oeil is that of a bed of variegated flowers, with a tribe of black emmets posed on their hind legs inserted between. Christian's Mistake He is now chiding and beslaving the emmet that stands before him, and who, for all that we can discover, is as good an emmet as himself. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant The ant, or emmet. 11,11,8,11,11,8 These Emmets, how little they are in our eyes! Divine Songs I am an emmet, that mankind shall tread under foot; not a hornet, that they shall complain of my sting. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 And as farther our back-searching glances prevail, Like the emmets, "how little we are in our eyes!" The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood Because that little emmet o' doubt gets the better o' me every time. The Delectable Duchy All beings, through every gradation of existence, from the toiling emmet to the flaming angel, are formed for activity and exertion. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I Nay, that emmet that I saw was bigger than thou art. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 Human emmets—born for crushing under the heel of power! Temporal Power Believe it not!" he said, and there was a touch of melancholy in his rich voice—"We are midges in a sunbeam,—emmets on a sand- hill…no more! Ardath When a little emmet, standing on its ant-hill, could get a peep into infinity, how could he think he saw a corner in it?-a retired corner? The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Yes,—the emmets, the flies, the worms and the men, are all of one equality in the absurd belief that they can do things—things that will last. The Master-Christian And I have been through the woods, and through the woods, And could see nothing but an emmet. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 The sore battle lasted till the evening but the emmets were victorious. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 Once a dream did weave a shade O’er my angel-guarded bed, That an emmet lost its way Where on grass methought I lay. Songs of Innocence and Experience A convict is no more in my eyes than an emmet is in yours. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life "Look'ee, the little emmets crawling!" he said, pointing to them, and he shaded his eyes with his hand to look at the sun. Anna Karenina Why, I see a thousand emmets; thou meanest a little one? A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 |
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