| 单词 | ant |
| 例句 | And there was always the danger that a voracious army of ants would swarm through, eating up their specimens and leaving trees and bushes “clean as the handle of a broom.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Under his direction more than 10,000 colonies of the red ant have been established in about 90 test areas in the German Federal Republic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z With the secret and implacable labor of a small ant she predisposed the women of the village against the flightiness of their husbands, who were already preparing for the move. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z At the point where they touched the thatched ceiling, they became a line of ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The little yellow ones were too small to provide much in the way of nourishment, but there were red ants in the grass, and those were bigger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He said that the stories about mmuo, that they were spirits who had climbed out of ant holes, that they could make chairs ran and baskets hold water, were all devilish folklore. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z There are ants, grubs and beetles, frogs and toads, garter snakes, even salamanders if we’re lucky. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Sand clung to his skin, and as he dried little black sand ants began to crawl over him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother always loved anything that normally grows or lives out of doors— anything—lizards, trees, cows, caterpillars, birds, flowers, crickets, toads, ants, pigs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I felt like an ant trying to make sure I didn’t get stepped on. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “All I did was step on a dumb ant. What is he so freaked out about?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z When we came across a broad flat stone in the muddy earth, remarkably free of termites and ants, I decided to stop us early for the day. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Time was, it was no bigger than an ants hill. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The rest of us waited in the shallows, where the water’s slick shine was veiled with a dark lace of floating ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z An ant stung her on the ankle and she picked it up in her fingers and looked at it very close. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We are as interdependent, especially in our cities, as bees or ants, yet we can detach if we wish and go live alone in the woods, in theory anyway. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Cars crawled along the roads like ants in a line. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked, Mrs. Frisby thought, like very large ants endlessly toiling on an anthill. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They had found a calf in the arroyo that morning; small black ants were already making trails across the head, from the nose to the eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “And just so you know, I saw an ant crawling up the side of this seat. That’s why I almost kicked it.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “Look at that. Look at all those people. They look like ants. Sometimes I get the feeling that’s all we are—ants. Do you ever feel that way?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She told us that ants sleep for just eight minutes a day but that snails can sleep for three years. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I soon had my ratty sneaker off and was banging it against a trunk, big fat ants raining down. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It is a tremendous burden, she says, to be responsible for every little thing, every infant born, every leaf falling from every tree, every wave that breaks onto the beach, every ant on its journey. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Ben replied, “Some people think freckles are cute. I don’t. It looks to me like millions of ants pooped on your face.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve seen parades from the one in Brazil, the people looking like brightly colored ants as they danced through the streets, wild and free. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z If you could for a moment rise up out of your own beloved skin and appraise ant, human, and virus as equally resourceful beings, you might admire the accord they have all struck in Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Basil yawned cavernously as he fed crumbs to the ants. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Andrew shows me the ants crawling across the table. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z They looked like carpenter ants in their black suits. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z They take pains to explain that ants are not, emphatically not, tiny mechanical models of human beings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure she tries to be delicate, but when she starts running her fingers over my arms, under my breasts, and down my thighs, all I feel are millions of fire ants invading my skin. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z If they took a step, Their hooves would Bury the ant, Little pilgrim of crust And fallen bread. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z If Dad had been in there, ants and worms could have gotten in through the cracks and eaten him, or at least microscopic bacteria could have. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “If that stuff be sugar, where are the red ants?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The dirt is clumpy and dry, drilled through with the paths of insects like an abandoned ant farm. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I reached out to pick one of the ants up. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I saw this show about these Malaysian ants that internally combust under threat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Stepped on, though I felt it vaguely, already numb from the burning ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Lions were regal and courageous; peacocks were proud; ants were industrious; foxes were cunning. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “We follow the ants, because all ants go back to Valmiki.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z High enough that the people look like ants. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The families of weaver ants engage in child labor, holding their larvae like shuttles to spin out the thread that sews the leaves together for their fungus gardens. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The area included in the fire ant program is predominantly fields and croplands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They trim the edges of spongy Bermuda grass lawns and attack the grubs, fire ants, and weeds. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Everyone knows the ship could sink, unable to hold the piles of bodies that keep crawling on like raging ants from a disrupted nest. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The ants ate everything people had stored up, which was not much to begin with because of the drought. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Horses small as ants thundering through the grass. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He yawned—for ants do yawn—and stretch themselves too, like human beings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly a prickling sensation, as if ants were swarming over him, covered his whole body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I have to blow tiny sugar ants from each before putting it in my mouth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I cringe, remembering the pinpricks like ant bites, and can’t help the side glance at the barrel of stasis gel right next to the pod. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And ants crawled around; they had built high sandy mountains everywhere in the sage. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They do resemble, in their most compulsively social behavior, ants at a distance. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If something is possible for a genus, then it’s possible for a species: that is, if something’s true of insects, it’s true of ants. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z This is my test: I imagine them back there in the moonlight with the ground all around us boiling with ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She rests uneasily in the silence, watching ants boil darkly over the crumbs of what seemed, to begin with, an impossibly meager lunch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They were like the ant, which can see small objects but not large ones. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z An ant mound of people suddenly kicked to life. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t look sturdy enough to carry him, but he knew some insects, like ants, could carry many times their weight. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It made me queasy, pretending to be civil with a person so beneath human decency that he could crawl under a pregnant ant. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Thirteen out of the 26 children guessed correctly that anteaters ate ants, which wasn’t a good response rate for the first clue. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The children jumped up onto the truck and swarmed like ants all over the giant peach, eating and eating to their hearts’ content. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “Cricketers are good luck—so I suppose ants are better luck. And cockroaches are the best luck of all. Throw it away.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Then I hid inside a cover of cottonwood saplings and made certain every last ant was gone before I put them on again. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He sends a counting book, about an ant and a bee. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “No ants in my pants, though. Another season of cleaning all of those guest cottages.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Beneath the hills on either side the rock was bored into a hundred caves and maggot-holes; there a host of orcs lurked, ready at a signal to issue forth like black ants going to war. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The sun traveled farther westward; sage and cholla shadows shifted slightly; some ants crawled up their pant legs “1 guess we might as well begin,” Snuffy said, slowly unbending his aching limbs, arising. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then, if it’s a tree it w ants to be planted. We must dig a hole.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Probably no other agricultural program has been carried out on so large a scale as the dusting and spraying of millions of acres of land in southern United States to control the fire ant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When it finally fell, we could tell right away that the heart looked good, with not a single ant in sight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The lion roars, but the ant scurries into a hole. The lion can’t find it. He’s too big.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I think I might even pretend to pick an ant from my hair and eat it, but who can tell, the whole thing is going so fast. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “That old one about the grasshopper and the ant.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If I had lain there for a few million miles more than I did, the knackery of the ant nest would have disassembled Finn Easton and turned him into all sorts of useful ant products. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Somehow when I looked at you, I thought of fiery red ants. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Dust, ants, and twigs showered over her, but the trees also caught the craft and kept it from being swept away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to show you the way out, ants, so you get out of here and take the rest of them with you.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground teemed with insects, and he began putting ants, beetles, spiders, and even a fuzzy caterpillar into his mouth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z When it came to gunfire Jumper didn’t have any more sense than a red ant in a hot skillet. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of ants spilled from the lacy wood. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z But he was standing there watching us anyway, and I flushed red to think he might have seen me feeding the ant lions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Once that was out of the way we marched toward the front steps of the farmhouse as if we were a line of ants dressed in clothes. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The new ant put down the cadaver vaguely and began dragging the other two in various directions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The ants who had filled their crops to the brim were walking back to the inner fortress, to be replaced by a procession of empty ants who were coming from the same direction. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z My heart pounding in my ears, I stare at a small ant spinning in a circle in a puddle next to my face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Each morning hundreds of men climbed to its roof; each evening they picked their way gingerly back down in a long dense line that from a distance resembled a column of ants. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’ve got ants in my pants again from having to sit still so long. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They gathered like ants around a crumb of toast. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As it commenced to burn, the ants swarmed out and went first toward the centre where the fire was; then turned back and ran toward the end. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for him, the box had a hole in it and when he dug it up the following month the ants had eaten it all. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “I could hear an ant creeping up on the sugar bowl,” boasted Ear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “It begins to control the ant’s mind, making it do things that no ant would do otherwise.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The crowd was working in and out of the stores like ants around spilled sugar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Deep greenery had grown over the entrance and ant columns crisscrossed the walk. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Didn’t care if it was scouting for food to drag back to the nest or building new tunnels for wriggly ant larvae. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The 1957 bulletin Insecticide Recommendations . . . for the Control of Insects Attacking Crops and Livestock did not so much as mention the fire ant — an extraordinary omission if the Department believes its own propaganda. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The rich black earth clinging to bodies and biting the skin like ants. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z There were never any new ants in the procession, only this same dozen going backward and forward, as they would do during all their lives. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky seemed to retreat far above, and she had the strange sensation that she was shrinking, that soon she might be no larger than an ant crawling over the ground. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I came to Buckland and found it in uproar, as busy as a hive of ants that has been stirred with a stick. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It didn’t take Herbie long to become very aware of ants in his new home. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe and Marly went from one hump to the other, opened some to watch ants, and looked at the queer moss and starry little plants on others. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z As he spoke he saw a troop of busy ants. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The corner post leaned toward the road, and large black ants covered its surface. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z My stomach is aching in that crampy way that means I’m about to get my period, and my palms itch so bad, it’s like fire ants are biting me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z One was the fire ant eradication program in the South; the other was the spraying for the Japanese beetle in the Midwest. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Now, masses of tired, gray people made their way slowly toward the train cars, like a group of exhausted ants marching toward a hill. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “I told you I couldn’t sleep, and you didn’t finish the happier cuento about the ant,” his words echo. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She dug a hole in the ground with her finger and buried the dead ant. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z My skin was prickling, I was alive with ants, they were in my hair and on my neck and chest and I leaped to my feet, clawing them away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, like a colony of worker ants, they dismantled their stalls and left. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And even the ants Raised their heads: Knowing what’s good, They dropped their bread crumbs For a single flake Of chicharron. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Later in the afternoon a scouting ant wandered across the rush bridge which Merlyn had commanded him to make. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She touched her hair, positive it was a mess, and wondered if the pastor had seen her laughing at the ants. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Hazel couldn’t believe what she was seeing —black mastiffs, giant eagles, a lion-eagle hybrid that must’ve been a gryphon, and a red ant the size of a compact car. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I feel like ants are running all over my skin, like I know I’m in a nightmare and I’m clawing to get the ants off me, but all I’m doing is hurting myself. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z All of us are able to smell ants, for which the great word pismire was originally coined. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “What happens if an ant bites a lion on the toe?” said Eye. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Jethro let the ant go on its way, and sat staring at the shadows with the lonely ache that beauty sometimes brought to him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The information lady looks at the numbers and words written like ant trails on the back of my card. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z It hurt my feelings and made me feel as minuscule as an ant to see her behave that way. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Have you ever heard an ant wearing fur slippers walk across a thick wool carpet?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I watch ants file neatly into the ant hole by my feet and remind myself that Jenna and I have known each other forever. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z So we merely look at them, watching the ants hiding their pill-shaped eggs in panic, the snakes pouring themselves into darkness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The claim that the ant is a menace to health and life also bears considerable modification. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As soon as it did, ants began to pour out of it, and we could see that it was not a healthy tree inside, although it looked fine outside. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then you tell it,” I said, trying to make the ant climb onto just one of my fingers. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Wolves and chimpanzees cooperate far more flexibly than ants, but they can do so only with small numbers of other individuals that they know intimately. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mom should have died in 1959, in an earthquake,” I said, putting my hand flat on the brick, right in the path of a black ant carrying something. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The woman ignored him and looked at the broken and empty cake box on the bar, saying, “Somebody’s been having a picnic in here. Goddammit. I already told you people about ants and rats.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning there were no ants in the kitchen, none in the pantry, the granary, the stable, the chicken coops, the pastures. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I am a small ant crouched by the entrance, with the winter wind at my back. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z About 25 years ago Professor Karl Gosswald of the University of Wurzburg developed a method of cultivating this ant and establishing colonies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I watch the same ant flailing its four legs in the half inch of water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not believe you can suspend army ants away from the earth, on plastic, for any length of time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Descartes exploded again, telling Beeckman he had learnt as much from him as he had learnt from ants and worms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He felt a strange sensation, like hundreds of tiny ants crawling up his arm. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If Maple Grove was an ant bed, it’s like somebody just stomped on it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z If he really loves me, he will eat frogs and kidneys and chocolate-covered ants. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Once I saw him trying to make an ant colony, filling a mason jar with dirt. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z But the ants continued to appear and multiply, daily growing more impudent and more decisive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The social insects, especially ants, have been sources of all kinds of parables, giving lessons in industry, interdependence, altruism, humility, frugality, patience. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As the day grew brighter and warmer, the hidden children tried to sleep, but ants and mosquitoes feasted on their bodies while the growing heat of the day made them damp with sweat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled off his ant mask, hopped out, and turned off the spray of white fog. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The air, which had been washed by the three-day drizzle, was filled with flying ants. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Except now, he was the ant and I was holding the magnifying glass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was eerie, watching it, and I thought then of chairs running, their four legs knocking together, of water being held in a basket, of human forms climbing out of ant holes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Four ants together, or ten, encircling a dead moth on a path, begin to look more like an idea. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Cracks in the sidewalk, ants on the sidewalk, shadows, anything. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “He used an ant, if you can believe it. Tied a silk string to the little creature and coaxed it through the shell by putting honey at the far end.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It seemed impossible to stand still where the ground was black with ants, but there was nowhere else to go. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “But make no mistake, child, you are but an ant in my path. Should you attempt to stand in my way, I will deal with you as such.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The jug of orange squash had ants drowning, so Moran held the paper cups while I poured the lemon. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Then, when he grew up, they would probably ignore him and treat him like an ant! Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z We are instructed to spray disinfect- ants everywhere, into the air of our bedrooms and kitchens and with special energy into bathrooms, since it is our very own germs that seem the worst kind. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We got up just as something began to bite me—the ants, probably. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Suds, you ant brain. Angels finish last. What did you ever get out of it, huh? Did anybody ever say, ‘Oh, thank you, Suds. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “A fungus takes over the ant’s brain,” she explained. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z During most of the forty-odd years since its arrival in the United States the fire ant seems to have attracted little attention. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sarah Johnston, who did her science paper on zombie ants because they had scared her. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Thing was, I just didn’t know ant more. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The chocolate ants and frogs’ legs were gone in no time. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z There were a lot of ants running around on the side of the highway looking very busy and pleased with themselves. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z His black Kevlar armor was ripped so that his label just said ant. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z My palms itch as if fire ants are biting them all over. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z And we also get ants, searching for a bite to eat or a toe to bite. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Instead of a dust-cloud well out in the desert he now saw a black, moving mass, rather like ants, on the far bank of the Winding Arrow. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Dove was always being asked to read about sluggards and going to ants. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an ant of exactly the same species, but it came from the other nest It was met by one of the scavenging ants and murdered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Far down the slope he could see the two trackers; they were little more than dots or scurrying ants and behind them a larger ant. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt as though a company of ants was touring his scalp. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You think it was a him? It’s just a dumb ant. Who cares?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z An ant’s nest of activity, all dedicated to rendering this extinct ship’s bones into something usable for a new world. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Dead birds found in the treated areas had absorbed or swallowed the poisons used against the fire ants, a fact clearly shown by chemical analysis of their tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Black bugs, like ants, but bigger and blacker, crawled over it in a frenzy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Now, as Nhamo lay in speckled shadow and watched the ants wander over acacia thorns, she considered the implications of this story. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I made a quick sketch of the construction, all these tiny people up there crawling around the girders like ants on a big tree. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z What would happen to wildlife as a result of the insecticide used against the ants was another matter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some of the most fascinating control work in European forests employs the forest red ant as an aggressive insect predator — a species which, unfortunately, does not occur in North America. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z New ant colonies in the forests at Molln are protected from woodpeckers by wire netting to reduce the toll. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He staggered under his load like an ant carrying a jelly bean. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the terrible night of the ants, Mother had been creeping her remorse in flat-footed circles around me without ever speaking of it, wearing her guilt like the swollen breasts of a nursing mother. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I is hearing the little ants chittering to each other as they scuddle around in the soil.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole of it was eventually picked clean in the way a forest tree gets gleaned by leaf-cutter ants: nuts, bolts, and anything that might serve for roofing material trailed off into the jungle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dallben has taught me much about ants, but nothing of a lame one.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z One afternoon, Dallas and Florida gathered up dozens of ants, seven spiders, two garter snakes, and a frog, and that evening they deposited these treasures in the beds of the Burgerton boys. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z It hurt, the little ants were biting us all over bad and it burned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was hot and the sweat was crawling down his head like little black ants. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Prickles rising on the nape of my neck, I bent to scrutinize the tree trunk more closely: silvery bark, cool to the touch, ants marching out of a fissure in a glittering black thread. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Chris looked down, now tapping the stupid umbrella on the sidewalk as if he were smashing an ant. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I know about queen ants, and about the female praying mantises eating the males. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Susie kicked at a mound of fine dirt, and a flood of reddish ants poured out, but she walked through them without a blink. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It learned how the Matabele ants carried their young at the center of a line while the soldiers ran along the outside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like ants talking with their antennae. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Herbie followed these directions, cleaned about a quarter pound of dead ants from the hummingbird feeder, and poured in a fresh sugarwater solution. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The ant chases the elephant, and around and around they go. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The Department of Agriculture has consistently denied livestock losses related to the fire ant program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When I get juice on my skin, red ants come. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They look small like ants, but we can hear them clapping. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Then one day,” she said, “that stalk explodes and sends spores down onto the new colony. So new ants get taken over.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Lots of ants; rather hard work,” he wrote in his diary. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Her hair is thick and brown, the color of a rotten branch teeming with luscious ants. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z With the development of chemicals of broad lethal powers, there came a sudden change in the official attitude toward the fire ant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In this moment, more than anything, I wish I were an ant. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It looked like a sleeping giant covered with ants as the builders went about their task. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought he could see her impulses crawling like ants and could read them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When we first arrived, there were sand and ants everywhere, but we cleaned it up as best we could. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In an unusual arrangement, he said, T. americana plays host to colonies of tiny red ants—indeed, it has trouble surviving without them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If we were born with all these knacks inbuilt, automated like ants, we would surely miss the variety. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they scurried around like little sugar ants, busy hormiguitas, gathering the materials to create a sturdy device in which to carry our wounded sister, because her leg hurt so much that she couldn’t walk. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The mound-building habit of the fire ant makes the chemical treatment of individual mounds a simple matter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The gaunt outlines of huge catapults and monstrous wooden cranes stood sentry up there, like the skeletons of great birds, and among them walked men in black as small as ants. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z From the highway, you could only see people far away like ants and hear the tinny music playing on the loudspeaker. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Woodcocks, which winter in Louisiana but breed in the North, now carry the taint of the fire ant poisons in their bodies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Peewee was hanging over the edge of his bunk directing traffic for an ant traffic jam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z While I was thinking that statement over, it went on to say that “people eat grasshoppers, hairless caterpillars, ant eggs, and termites.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Maeterlinck and Marais wrote best-selling books on the presumed soul that must exist somewhere in the nests of ants and termites. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The morning flies buzzed close to the ground and the ants dashed about in front of the steps. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Instantly every neuron in my brain was awake and dashing around frantically, like ants when you disturb their nest. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I found a column of ants running up a tree trunk and picked a couple out of the lineup. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The trench was not wet; there were more ants than spiders. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Hundreds of dirty, unshaven men pour from the train and surround it, like ants on candy, cursing and stretching and lighting cigarettes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z We had never actually seen the ant lions themselves, only their wicked handiwork. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The ants of one species, proceeding jerkily across a path, leave trails that can be followed by their own relatives but not by others. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some entomologists believe that the ant’s food habits have changed as it has become more abundant, so that observations made several decades ago have little value now. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She felt like a thousand ants were crawling up her back. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It seemed that he could not have made a better explanation than this one about foiling on his head, even if he had meant to—for the ants did occasionally tumble off. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing she didn’t put on crackers was the chocolate-covered ants, which she just put on a plate so they looked like miniature chocolate candies. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Then she let the other flip-flop go, which startled the ant, causing it to try a different route entirely. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Then the ants bore into my eyes and I black out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Third, a live grouse with its legs tied together; fourth, the soft, tanned pelt of an ant bear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Gosswald’s method has been adopted in Italy and other countries, where ant farms have been established to supply colonies for distribution in the forests. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If there were ants on Winter, Gethenians might have tried to imitate them long ago. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Red ants that had a sour farty smell when they were squashed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Fat black ants were crawling all over the palm fronds, and she squealed and looked helplessly at him when one crawled onto her arm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The word “eradication” still came easily from the Department’s mimeograph machines; this time the press releases were promising the eradication of the fire ant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In addition to quail, wild turkeys were seriously reduced by the fire ant program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The ants were busy on the ground, big black ones with shiny bodies, and little dusty quick ants. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z A thin line of brown ants was crawling across his big toe, and he was trying not to giggle. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z My eyes scan the plastic flowers near the sink, the faded wallpaper that Tía keeps telling her to take down, the wall clock shaped like a stopwatch, the teeny ants zigzagging near the leaky faucet. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As for the ants themselves, they are plainly not in need of lessons from us. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He trampled the ants with his boots, and he kicked dirt over the seeds and pulp. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He wrinkled his nose in disgust at the odor, which filled the wood around and was already attracting ants and bluebottles. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And the water just kept gurgling into that field, sending ants scurrying for their lives, while Joe puffed a cigarette, on one of the quietest lavender mornings of this particular spring. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top, a wide, flat plain dotted with huge ant mounds stretched for a mile, and Joe left the dirt ruts to slalom between the mounds for a ways. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z People run out of the Walmart and carry armfuls of items, looking like ants rushing from an anthill. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The dirt floor is hard and full of black ants and other bugs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew he’d have to do something to try to top my little ant joke. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The late sun burned down on their heads and there were brown, crumbly ant beds all around them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z That time Leah fed one to the ant lion, Jesus saw that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Sarah Johnston was standing in front of the class talking about zombie ants. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I heard a call from the kitchen as I stuffed another little square of ants into my mouth. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I lift a hand to my eyes to find them sound, untouched by ants that never existed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z When she found a place she got comfortable, spreading her blue shawl on the ground after she had cleared the area of pebbles and little sticks and made sure no ants were disturbed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Across the river the south shore was black with men and horses, stirring like angry ants as they caught sight of the approaching ships. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Daito turned and swept the beam over the Sixer ground forces around him, frying them like terrified ants under a magnifying glass. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Because before hummingbirds could discover his upside-down bottle, a bunch of flying ants happened by, and in no time they drove themselves like lemmings up the glass tube into Herbie’s jar-shaped slaughterhouse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His fingers got together in conference, talking to one another like ants. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He went out and saw a multitude, as many as the ants in number, all crying out that they were his faithful subjects. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z However, this does not mean that we cannot take it the other way, on the off chance that some of the collective actions of ants may cast light on human problems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor was made of crushed ant-heap, the hard dome of excavated earth above an ant colony, and was kept smooth by smearing it regularly with fresh cow dung. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Soldiers crawled over the city walls like ants with torches, and crowded the hoardings that had sprouted from the ramparts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It's like an ant farm with a world of movement hidden underground. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Aside from this, Herbie had been led to believe ants could lift loads ten or fifteen or twenty times their own body weight, and supposedly they were fairly intelligent. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Never in my innocent childhood did I prepare for being in the Congo one dark night with ants tearing at my scalp. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran a hand across her stubbly scalp where her hair had burned away, and felt more ants on her head, and one crawling down the back of her neck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then there are those pesky little verbs that are as annoying as ants at a picnic, and just about as hard to tell apart: sit and set, rise and raise, lie and lay. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The chemical aimed at the fire ant had killed off the enemies of the borer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The ground was striped with streams of fast-moving ants, which I tried to step over. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Chinese smeared bad daughters-in-law with honey and tied them naked on top of ant nests,” my father said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z An ant was carrying a bread crumb bigger than itself past his toes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z John had already picked out a carton of tiger’s milk and a box of chocolate-covered ants. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Rahel walked across to the old well where there were usually some ants to kill. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They probably wanted to go looking for ants with her again, even though it was raining. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Sometimes ants and other insects fell with it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a red river, Like a trail of red ants. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There is also a crack, where ants are having a war. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Right now, my teacher clearly doesn't care about ants or anything except making sure she can pour as much information into me as possible in the time we have left. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He must’ve gotten eaten up by all the mosquitoes and ticks and ants. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z No official or private concern seems to have been felt about the fire ant as a menace to crops or livestock. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If Dad found an ant hill, he’d tell us about certain colonies of ants that kept slaves and herds of cows. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing! Just a dumb model of this town and a broken promise. Just Madame, who is dead. Just my great-uncle, who is frightened of an ant.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Quickly I said, “Since there are no men to give the rites, perhaps you will not have to undergo the nettles and the ants, Chief Ramo.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The dictionary had a picture of it, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal, which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If Percy charged to help Bob, he would get squashed like an ant. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The room then became vulnerable to dust, heat, termites, red ants, and moths, who would turn the wisdom of the parchments into sawdust. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In most of the states included in the fire ant program the dairy industry is small and its products do not cross state lines. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Six, five, four—what I don’t know is if the Malaysian ants kill themselves in the process of annihilating their enemies. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He pressed his hand against the wall and felt the same sensation of crawling ants. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking out there, August widened her step to miss squashing an ant. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The ants occupy minute tunnels just beneath the bark. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z What if the ants were crawling on her right now? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Once, ants seeking water and crumbs enter during a time of drought. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The loaded wagons moved between the fields and the village like ants scurrying to store their seeds. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything that slowly congealed into me burned like acid from the bites of red ants. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “I know you have ants in your pants because Brandy is back at Seaside,” she says, standing. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The margins of the Greek world continued to remain dark, narrow, and filled with sea monsters, giant gold- digging ants, and men with faces in the middle of their chests. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It was in the bunker, while playing with the damp soil that crawled with crickets and ants, that the child had told Ugwu his name. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I remember sitting at the dinner table, with Cordelia, his warnings washing over our heads, the ruined water, the poisoned trees, species after species snuffed out like stepped-on ants. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Someone’s rescued hen fluttered up to the bow of our boat and strutted placidly along the gunwale, its delicate wattles shaking as it plucked up ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They moved on to the next post, Mustard on their heels, muzzle littered with ant parts. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z At school, I’m so wiggly that Ms. Saintima asks if I have ants in my pants. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She wondered how the ants had managed to climb over it and find her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Butterflies danced in the air between us as he looked us over, and I learned how an especially small ant must feel when facing a particularly large elephant. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Jimmy could actually see that, a thousand ants against one cricket. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z When it had pulled the three dead ants into several positions, they would fall into line under the clod eventually, and that was its duty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “The world can always give you reasons. No rain, not enough for the ants to eat. Something like that. Nsongonya are always moving anyway, it is their nature. Whether God cares or not.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t blame God for what ants have to do. We all get hungry. Congolese people are not so different from Congolese ants.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked for her, or Mother or anyone, but only saw other mothers running into the water with small, sobbing children, trying to splash and rub their arms and legs and faces clean of ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He slowly dismounted, told the patron he had led the ants to the edge of the highway, and went into his house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z London was soon far behind them, replaced by neat green fields that gave way in turn to wide, purplish moors, a great city alive with cars like multicolored ants, villages with tiny toy churches. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma had told me not to bother the ants, since they hurt no one and you could never really get rid of them anyway; they were as old as the building itself. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The ants were, together with the New Yorkers, an abstraction, a live mobile, an action painting, a piece of found art, a happening, a parody, depending on the light. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They could see the movements of an ant walking as far away as the distant river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Let’s see how much we can see in the square. I’ll go first. I see an ant.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s pick these things up before the ants start feasting,” Lolo says. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Near the thorn tree was a deep ant hole, and the girl sat next to this, allowing her tears to disappear into the dark depths of the earth. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z A peal of thunder seemed to answer him and that night he dreamed that he saw the ants being transformed into human shape. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the row is a person-sized ant in a trench coat. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I was covered in a fine green film and tiny ants, which I brushed off as best I could. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you worry about that. He is frightened of an ant.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was pocked all over with little funnel-shaped snares, where the ant lions lay buried at the bottom, waiting for some poor insect to stumble into the trap and get devoured. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The ants made a faint crunchy sound as life left them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I could feel my tongue slowly begin to throb as the heat of the peppers crawled over it like an army of tiny fire ants. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Columns of ants can smell out the differences between themselves and other ants on their trails. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "You were just an ant of a thing," she said, picking me up like I was still two instead of nine and squeezing me to her. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Squirrels prepared their winter hoard; ants labored in their earthen castles. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z People slamming, shoving, scrambling like ants as the hill presses in, threatening to crush their fragile shells. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,” Medwyn continued, “nor refuse to accept it when it is offered. Gwythyr Son of Greidawl learned that from a lame ant, you know.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The condition was seen only in areas treated for fire ants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was a column of ants marching across one of the flagstones and Bruno Jenkins was focusing the sun through his magnifying-glass and roasting the ants one by one. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “Maybe you’ll want to watch some television or have some more chocolate ants.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I feel like ants are running all over my skin, like I know I’m in a nightmare and I’m clawing to get the ants off me, but all I’m doing is hurting myself. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But now I can’t see Mama on the porch or the ants crawling up my legs. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z An army of servants were scurrying around the table like ants, sorting, counting, and polishing what Penelope was certain must be a mine’s worth of silver. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Thinking of ant lions and “Mother May I.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Herbie’s heart sank as he observed new ants methodically plodding into the death arenas around the sugary spots; they paid no attention to the shapeless compatriots over which their tiny feet scrabbled. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For a few hours the fires will burn, and then the Germans will swarm like ants back to their positions and fight for another day. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I took that as a joking compliment, as everyone knows that ants are powerful, despite their tiny size. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z This exposed an ant trail of hair running down from his navel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Until now that ant simply didn’t oast for you. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Then Johnny saw running down Cambridge road through the bushes on Charlestown Common a scurry of red ants. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z An inquisitive ant was busy in one of the eye sockets but otherwise the thing was lifeless. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Here and there one sat upright on an ant heap and looked about, with ears erect and nose in the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Though there were plenty of flies and mosquitoes, I had a chance of avoiding ants and snakes and leeches. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Even an ant’s just got its own one life to live, and I did consider this briefly as I crouched down and dropped a partly squashed ant into an ant lion’s trap. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But for a long time after he’d finished reading, I thought about that army of ants, how they were coming together. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z That also meant that he wasn’t paying attention when I got into his backpack and emptied a tube of fire ants from the colony I’d found in the woods. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He remembered the belligerent ants, who claimed their boundaries, and the pacific geese, who did not. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Smaller tunnels branch off the main chamber, like a massive glowing version of Lita’s fire ant colony sculpture. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They were changed into men from ants because of one of Hera’s attacks of jealousy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He dreamed the ants crawling all over his hummingbird feeder and clogging it with their bodies were a special kind of Milagro piranha ant. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There are the five ants, one termite that I know of, and Man.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In each of the little spaces was a picture: an ant, a tree, an anchor, an hourglass.... The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Once in camp I put a log on top of the fire and it was full of ants. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The consequences of the sublethal poisoning of the woodcock are now seen in a marked decline in the proportion of young birds to adults, first observed in the season after fire ant treatments began. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z My skin feels as though ants are crawling under it. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z If we were ever to put all our brains together in fact, to make a common mind the way the ants do, it would be an unthinkable thought, way over our heads. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally she said, “You are,” in a voice as little as an ant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning she woke stiff and sore and aching, with ants crawling on her arms and legs and face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Folks were out and about on the streets below; they milled about like tiny, fancy ants. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He’s got his hand on my arm, he’s asking if I w ant to go for a drink, but suddenly something is wrong. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Driver ants, Ebola virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome: all these are brooms devised by nature to sweep a small clearing very well. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like staring at the ground and realizing, suddenly, that it is swarming with ants. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But in the morning, in real life, perhaps half a million, not-yet-dead ants that had fed at the volunteer’s various poisoned banquets were writhing on the smokehouse floor. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Still we cannot live with swarms of ants, so with poison spray I “do them in.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I read somewhere that people on the street are supposed to look like ants, but that’s not true. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The giant was so big that by comparison Thor might have been a beetle or an ant. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Fire ants have been observed picking larvae of the boll weevil off cotton. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It’s up to me to repay the team, justify my food and keep, like a queen ant with eggs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He bored a small hole in the closed end of the shell, fastened a thread to an ant, introduced the ant into the hole, and then closed it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the people gathered at its doors like ants, asking questions and passing on rumors about what happened last night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After using his machete to hack his way through the dense foliage—all while getting stung and bitten by wasps and ants—Kermit would set up the sighting rod. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z We w ant to believe it was all like that. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z This has been a whole terrible time, from the beginning of the drought that left so many without food, and then the night of the ants, to now, the worst tragedy of all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A strange feature was that the ordinary ants were not excited by the songs, nor interested by the lectures. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He teased an ant that tried to run across a stick at his feet, blocking its way with the big toe of one foot and then the other, chuckling a little at his own mischief. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man climbed up onto a horse and ambled slowly, mumbling advice and recommendations, prayers of wisdom and enchanted formulas, to the ants. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Why would ants choose to live on the side of a highway where they were just going to get run over by cars and semis on a regular basis? Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In a few days the dark brigade will have passed on through—those ants can’t stop moving. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Matthias watched some of the tiny ants carrying off his fallen breadcrumbs as he answered, “As well as possible, Brother Methuselah. And how are your studies coming along?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The rush came to a standstill, yet the ants were still swarming everywhere. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His tail twitched as he watched a line of tiny ants marching from under the sink to a dark spot of something sticky by the stove. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Yes, I call them the fire ants. A group of small beings that can become overwhelming.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Poke a stick in the sandy soil and a few blue-skinned beetles would appear, an avenue of ants, so many crusty lady bugs. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It is, basically, a response to propaganda, something like the panic-producing pheromones that slave-taking ants re lease to disorganize the colonies of their prey. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A gallery in New York exhibited a collection of 2 million live army ants, on loan from Central America, in a one-colony show entitled “Patterns and Structures.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone was pushing from behind, and then came another head and another pair of hands, as they clambered over the shoulders and backs of those below and swarmed up onto the roof like ants. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked on ants and ran on them, releasing their vinegary smell to the weird, quiet night. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But at this direful moment she who had awakened no compassion in mortals or immortals was pitied by the tiniest creatures of the field, the little ants, the swift-runners. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z These were men created from ants on the island of Aegina, in the reign of Aeacus, Achilles’ grandfather, and they were Achilles’ followers in the Trojan War. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as strawberries are adapted to birds, so acorns are adapted to squirrels, mangos to bats, and some sedges to ants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because of that, he sometimes called me WolachiT, which means “ant.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He was just speaking the word for ant. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched the ants crawl across the mangoes, and he knew where they paused to sniff the sugar inside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z But it is doubtful if he has an awareness of being caught in an aerosol of chemical attract- ant. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been born a nobody, a worker ant in the hive of the New South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We are being looked at, assessed, whispered about; we can feel it, like tiny ants running on our bare skins. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Javelins swung wildly, like the whole group had stepped in fire ants. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “If she caught you going out the door, what could she do? It would be like an ant trying to stop a flood.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Dieldrin, another fire ant poison, has a well- documented history of extreme hazard to all aquatic life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z You can count on kids to eat anything when they’re at a party, especially if they don’t know it’s ants and frogs. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He watched the ants moving, a little column of them near to his foot, and he put his foot in their path. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “And Oliver,” Mr. Daniels says, “I think you have to cut Shay a break here. It’s pretty common for people to step on ants.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z When faced with an apartment full of boxes, I'd pretend to be an ant assigned to transport sandwich crumbs back to my colony. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I’m the size of an ant compared to these trees, but I don’t feel insignificant. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z That’s why Sapiens rule the world, whereas ants eat our leftovers and chimps are locked up in zoos and research laboratories. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My voice sounded small and faraway to me, like it was coming from an ant hole in the ground. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man squatted down with difficulty and began to collect ants. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And so I kept showing up every morning in downtown Chicago, at the corporate ant mound known as One First National Plaza. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “If you eat one, all the ants the lizard ate will crawl around inside your stomach and bite you,” Ugwu said calmly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I am struck by the word species, by the idea that he thinks I am something entirely else, like an ant or a dog or a deer. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I’ve never met a person,” whispered Eilonwy, while Gurgi snuffled in fright, “who could talk about such dreadful things and smile at the same time. It’s like ants walking up and down your back.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z At that hour of the morning there was not a soul on the wooden platform, its roof eaten away by inclement weather and ants. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even insects, such as bees and ants, know how to communicate in sophisticated ways, informing one another of the whereabouts of food. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered the ant plague and decided that the old man was his only hope. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of lying on the floor of my living room, I was lying on the ground in the sun, almost directly over a hill of large black ants. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They would be as ants beneath his feet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The ants were everywhere, angrily running around looking for an enemy—us! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I feel about as powerful as an ant.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Herbie punched open his traps, wet his buttons, spread his powder, and snuggled down comfortably into his rancid sleeping bag, secure in the knowledge that tomorrow morning his ants would be extinct. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We all look like ants marching in this dust straight into a giant trap where we’ll be stuck or where we’ll be fed poison that we inadvertently spread to the rest of the group. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She had wanted him to brush it off; she did not seem like the kind of person who was truly afraid of ants. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She helped herself to a portion of the ants swarming the outside of the tree, looking for something sweet. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Tell me why you went to Blenheim Road on Saturday night. Why did you w ant to speak to your ex-husband?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z If, on the other hand, Cal came upon the same anthill, he would kick it to pieces and watch while the frantic ants took care of their disaster. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We drove down Broadway, passing students who filled the sidewalks like colorful ants in a parade. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z When the ant finally came out at the other end, the thread, of course, was running clear through all the twists and turns. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed actually to see the Eurasian army swarming across the never-broken frontier and pouring down into the tip of Africa like a column of ants. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Bad luck for those poor ants, singled out while minding their own business amongst their brethren. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The creatures seemed no more dangerous than sugar ants, but something worried him far more. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Severe reactions may occasionally occur in sensitive individuals, and medical literature records one death possibly, though not definitely, attributable to fire ant venom. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Men who make Committees and go around stealing mothers and hurting them, they’re just red ants killing black ants in a giant universe that has tornadoes bigger than the biggest thing we have ever built. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Then again, maybe we really are the ants. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I wanted to scream and rush in and stomp on them like they were little ants. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z They did not behave like men, or ants. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I stopped to examine one of the trees closely and saw ants crawling along the intricate ridges in its bark. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Yeah, him too. But they were talking about Herodotus saying there were giant ants and gryphons guarding gold mines, and how he made this stuff up.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Sad ideas start biting me like tiny ants. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Some of the other girls from the team are there too: Jess the co-captain and Britt the center who makes Maya look like an ant. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z If you disturb the arrangement of a part of the Hill, hundreds of ants will set it vibrating, shifting, until it is put right again. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Already, ants and bugs crawled among the cracked bark and splintered wood. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The air fairly hummed with their daybreak activity: beetles and birds and squirrels and ants, and countless other things unseen, all gentle and self-absorbed and not in the least alarming. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A platoon of ants carried a dead cockroach sedately through the door, demonstrating what should be done with corpses. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The captain barks orders to scrambling crewmen, who disgorge from the main hatch like ants from a flooding anthill. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He picked up another; this one mentioned ants. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So might one look down on an ant hill and see no method or direction or purpose in the darting hurrying inhabitants. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the yearning for identification loosed in me by the sight of a solitary ant carrying a burden upon a mysterious journey. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Some natives in the world ate grasshoppers and ants and if they could do that he could get a raw egg down. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The ant struggled in the soft, sandy trap until a pair of pincers suddenly reached up and grabbed it, thrashed up a little dust, and pulled it under. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m in Alabama, under the shade of a magnolia with red ants crawling up my trouser legs and the buzz of gnats swarming my head. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z The wind will blow them across the ocean thousands of them in giant boats swarming like larva out of a crushed ant hill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The fire ant suddenly became the target of a barrage of government releases, motion pictures, and government-inspired stories portraying it as a despoiler of southern agriculture and a killer of birds, livestock, and man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I care,” Oliver says, getting down on all fours with a tissue to check on the ant, which is clearly dead. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z As the plane flew over the beach, the people down below looked like ants wandering in and out of the water. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Hundreds of avatars milled around like ants crawling around the inside of a giant balloon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Seen from a distance, clustered densely around the white plastic box containing the long serpentine lines of army ants, turning to each other and murmuring repetitively, they seem an absolute marvel. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I smile at the silly picture of us marching like black ants coming to a stop at the end of the day only to head back home. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For many days, up and down those streets, our pain tingled like unrelenting rows of ants. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Quickly, people stuck themselves to the white truck like ants on an abandoned candy bar. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “Are you going to ask him about the Scout trip?” said Rita as she fed cookie crumbs to a line of ants. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I could not make a sound for the ants at my throat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The man placed the bottle of water down and said quietly, “They are killing us like ants. Did you hear what I said? Ants.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Bees and ants have no option when isolated, except to die. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She grimaced as ants scurried over her fingers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The occasional Harmony or Unity flashes above, each purple letter larger than the person cleaning it beneath, like an ant holding a grape. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Pinpricks like fire ant bites run over my skin as the cold gel seeps around my body and into my ears. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug for him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z If there are discarded food wrappers nearby and if the wrappers are not covered with ants, the tracks are brand-new. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I sit down on the ground, near a mound of red ants, but I don’t care. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This direct transmission into milk had been demonstrated experimentally for heptachlor in 1955, long before the control program was undertaken, and was later reported for dieldrin, also used in the fire ant program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On the ground, inches from my eye, I see a line of ants marching along. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Each stamp is a snapshot of a story, of one thin slice of history captured like an ant in amber. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We’re only still scraping by with what Mrs. Fowles gave us off their boat, plus some eggs, because thank goodness Mama Mwanza brought us over two laying hens after the ants ate up ours. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru moved closer and saw a slender line of ants leading away from the log and over a pile of leaves. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z From the shadows of the canopy to the rustle of Matabele ants in the dry grass, the whole grove vibrated with watchful attention. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Her procession of women and attendants and newsies trails her down the hall like an army of ants. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Believe that, too, for driver ants are possessed, collectively, of the size and influence of a Biblical plague. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “She is like those little red ants that swarm all over you and bite and bite.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He hid pastries in the toolshed and the laundry room and then wondered where all the ants were coming from. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z We were walking on, surrounded, enclosed, enveloped, being eaten by ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t know if it itched from the rivulets of sweat or from the ants and other insects she spied among the squash. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “If they’ll just die in private I think I can handle it. I better get a half-dozen ant traps and buttons, and also a can of powder.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Three days after Herbie first dangled the feeder from a limb, only a few tiny red drops remained inside the jar—the rest of the feeder was crammed full of well-fed dead ants. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I’d decided it was clear of ants, I put it back on over my dingy socks and continued on my way. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But just before the truck rolled over my body and crushed me like an ant, it skidded to a stop. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “So the Lakota leaders, like Spotted Tail, knew the odds were against us. It was like one cricket trying to fight off a thousand hungry ants.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Already there are disturbing records of heavy mortality among more than 20 other species of ground-feeding birds whose food — worms, ants, grubs, or other soil organisms — has been poisoned. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And the more days that passed and the more north we got, seemed like Ma’s idea ’bout bumbly bees and ants wasn’t as much a waste of time as I thought at first. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The ants were sprinkled with gasoline and set on fire, but they reappeared, invigorated. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Below the dripping awning, a newspaper pressed over her head, Boori Ma squatted and watched the monsoon ants as they marched along the clothesline, carrying eggs in their mouths. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “With patience, you can see the navel of an ant,” I said, recalling one of Papa’s favorite Haitian proverbs. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The tree trunks were painted with quicklime, but the ants continued to climb, sparing neither pears, oranges, nor apples. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra turned the hands to the camel, which meant Asia, which meant Tartars; to the cornucopia, for Kamchatka, where there were gold mines; and to the ant, which meant activity, which meant purpose and intention. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z While he was looking at the corpses, a live ant came down the pathway carrying a third one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing that we know for sure about human behavior is likely to account for what ants do, and we ought to stay clear of it; this is the business of entomologists. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There are killer ants that lunge at humans. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z These human waves were rolling forward and would have crushed me like an ant. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire ant was pictured as a serious threat to southern agriculture through destruction of crops and to wildlife because of attacks on the young of ground-nesting birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Like ants on an orderly march to our hole, my family and I walk quietly across the grass field with several scientists and one other family with a blond teenager. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I paced the room, feeling like ants were crawling around inside my shirt. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Such quick, arbitrary, effective, and wholesale annihilation fazed the surviving ant armies not one whit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She could go to bed, and in the morning, every crumb would be gone, as if the man had a flock of birds or a parade of biddable ants on staff. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Then we’d take turns lying on our stomachs, watching the ants go back and forth picking up crumbs from sandwiches. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z And that’s what I’m staring at, frozen: an ant path of cabs, a city of yellow where everything would be grey back home. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “I’m taking this thing off. It’s itching like a chili pepper ant,” Valley said as they slid into the tall seafoam-green booth. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z One of these paths ended at a clod with a natural hollow underneath it In the hollow—again with the strange appearance of aimless purpose—he found two dead ants. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The courtyard is full of ants, the bushes full of wasps and dirt daubers. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And if that wasn’t bad enough, when they set her down, they deposited her in the middle of an anthill, which started an ant stampede. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The ant stumbles away from the colony like a drunk,” she continued. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Kainene asked Baby to join the older children making lizard traps, to learn how to mat the palm fronds and place the cocoon full of iddo ants inside. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Sunlight slid patchily across his walking shoulders, glinting along the pole like yellow ants. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Crime would be on page 10, ants and old men and painted doors on page 1. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Gaily striped tents and pavilions sprang up everywhere as the workmen scurried about like ants. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z But now fears came swarming about my head like the black flying ants after a storm, and I cowered from the beat of their wings. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, ant lines, unbroken, unswerving, undismayed, still poured steadily out of all those little holes up around the vigas. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I plopped myself down in my polka-dotted sunsuit and picked off the fattest ants to eat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the campaigns against the gypsy moth in the northeastern states and the fire ant in the South. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Anatole seemed to be getting ants in his pants but was still bound and determined to argue with Father. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A column of shining black ants walked across a windowsill, their bottoms tilted upwards, like a line of mincing chorus girls in a Busby Berkeley musical. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We deemed the fireflies a bounty and the ants a plague, but it occurred to me for the first time to question why there should be such a distinction. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Then he’d stand yelling at me to come back and look at all the yellow ants and centipedes and crickets and stinging scor-pions that went scurrying away, hunting new hiding places. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The school could have been overtaken by giant flying ants. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z But whenever that worry enters, I drive it away as fast as I can, just as you have to chase away an ant as soon as you spot it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z In return for shelter, the ants attack anything that touches the tree—insect, bird, unwary writer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They took off their clothes and let the rags lie on the ground until they were destroyed by ants. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z They looked like little more than two black ants from where I was sitting. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z An ant could run over her and she couldn’t stop it. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Tidbit sat on the floor, tracing the path of an ant in the dust of the floor with his finger. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a dry and bloated bag of skin that all the ants in the world were dragging toward their holes along the stone path in the garden. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The family and the tenants went all the way to the river, checking everywhere along the way, and found not a single ant, not even one to use as a sample. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t leave Finn alone in the yard lest he follow a parade of ants right into the road. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Red ants cover the ground, and millions of gnats hover over the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Tiny black ants were scurrying over the shattered melons; the flies were rubbing their feet on fragments of pulp and rind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The ants started a single-file parade up the side of Our Lady, drawn by the honey, and not to be outdone, a handful of scout bees showed up and landed on Our Lady’s head. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Stonetown Harbor had always been a busy port: ships steaming in and weighing anchor at all hours, countless stevedores and sailors as busy as ants, and the docks piled high with cargo. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “There’s so many ants in my house, when 1 walk they just about crunch under my feet like peanut shells.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He removed a whole arsenal of tools that none of them had ever seen before and proceeded to trap an ant and carefully observe it with his microscope. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, farmers in Louisiana showed growing reluctance to sign up for the project as it became evident that use of chemicals against the fire ant was causing an upsurge of insects destructive to sugarcane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The method gives 90 to 95 per cent control of the ants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Moreover, its encyclopedic Yearbook for 1952, which was devoted to insects, contained only one short paragraph on the fire ant out of its half-million words of text. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z |
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