| 单词 | anthill |
| 例句 | 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 Then he stared upward over the anthills, to the open down rising above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “In Sanskrit, it means born of an anthill.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It turned out that their anthill was on the other side of her wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tendai couldn’t see what until they stepped back to reveal two mounds of dirt the size of small anthills. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They had gone only a short distance when Fiver, sitting up on an anthill to look about, saw a rabbit approaching over the high ground to the west. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Before they could thank Valmiki, he sank back into the anthill and it closed up around him. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z We sat in silence at the kitchen table, crumbling the crackers into anthills. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The lift doors opened; the old witch with the anthill hair left, and Ron darted past her out of sight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Cal sensed this, and it gave him the instrument to knock down her anthill. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He poured a mound of grits the size of an anthill onto the pine floor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Lifeless except for overcrowded, overflowing evacuation centers, looking like anthills spaced out at five-mile intervals. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I forgot that today's the day to put quicklime on the anthills.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Valmiki leaned back against the anthill and stroked his beard slowly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The circuits are so intimately woven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped by a mighty anthill, with ridges running across the red mud as if they were deliberate designs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They peered over anthills and looked cautiously round clumps of teazle. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It avoided the clumps of nettles, and sidestepped known ditches and anthills. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The Misty Mountains were crawling like anthills: orcs were issuing out of a thousand holes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There are two immense words from Indo-European, gene and bbeu, each a virtual anthill in itself, from which we have constructed the notion of Everything. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at all those bumpy lumps of dirt. Looks like giant anthills. Not as pretty as the holler, is it?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z It could have been anything—school, our older brothers, an anthill on the ground. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z 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 On the whole, Tendai thought it was better than being burned alive or buried in an anthill. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And the anthills and the rocks told the truth of themselves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z 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 Like a thousand giant anthills, they covered up all of those black irrigation hoses. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody wants to think that the rapidly expanding mass of mankind, spreading out over the surface of the earth, blackening the ground, bears any meaningful resemblance to the life of an anthill or a hive. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He circled the ground, then tottered over to a small anthill beside a log. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But the colored part a town, we one big anthill, surrounded by state land that ain’t for sale. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They found Holly with Bluebell and Pipkin, on the turf by the anthill where Dandelion had first looked over the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be wonderful to understand how the anthill communication system works. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the anthill split in half to reveal an elderly gentleman sitting cross-legged on the ground. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z There was another anthill nearby and he copied Dandelion, sitting upright on his hind legs and looking about him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Cal had quickly lost his awe of the changed feeling in the house and had been examining this anthill with calculating eyes, trying to determine just how to kick it over. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I made a volcano out of my anthill. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Shabani was a small boy like us and not that powerful, yet he boasted like a man with biceps the size of anthills. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z From afar, the many green, black, and blue plastic tents jut into the sky like thousands of anthills with blackhaired people frittering in every direction. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My centrioles, basal bodies, and probably a good many other more obscure tiny beings at work inside my cells, each with its own special genome, are as foreign, and as essential, as aphids in anthills. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru’s mother had collected some art depicting Rama’s adventures, and now Aru recalled an image of a sage sitting on an anthill. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z We sat down and looked at the graham-cracker anthills we had made. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z At this moment he saw Dandelion, who had run well ahead, squatting on an anthill clear against the sky. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z What had seemed like a boulder was actually a giant anthill. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Our house is small, and I have six brothers and a sister, all younger than I. Things got a little crowded, as the mole explained when he crawled out of the anthill.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z 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 leaned against a tree a few feet back—Genie of course looking out for snakes, spiders, and anthills—and waited. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Let's face it, the genre is akin to a sweetshop for comedy writers; its anthills stretch as far as the eye can see, just waiting to be poked with the funny stick. Douglas Adams is still the king of comic science fiction 2013-03-11T12:55:34Z In the following decade, Flaubert predicted that this vast "anthill" of a city would become "the capital of the world". Istanbul, ed by Heather Reyes – review 2013-05-03T18:00:01Z The island of Stromboli, north of Sicily, is shaped like an anthill and blasts white smoke from its volcano all year. Everything Is Different on an Island 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z “I thought I was poking at an anthill,” Mr. Toninelo said, “but it was really a volcano.” A G.I. Joe Short-Film Festival at 92YTribeca 2010-05-07T22:59:00Z Never did we glimpse another person, though the offerings of thousands, in the form of white stupas, were sprinkled across the scenery like anthills. Journeys: In India, Luxury Arrives in a Himalayan Haven 2011-01-21T19:55:00Z “We have a family anthill. Tucson is just swarming with Ronstadts.” Linda Ronstadt’s Borderland 2013-12-27T17:32:15Z We entered Jamestown, which becomes an anthill of activity when the ship docks. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z Alone, he has made absorbing drama from the anthill of British politics. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Instead, she flutters her arms and coos like a dove, or sits on an anthill to make herself gloves out of ants. The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller – review 2012-11-21T08:00:07Z And then fire threatens his family and all those issues become anthills in comparison to surviving this night. "The last thing we wanted to do was start a fire!": Peter Facinelli on his wildfire survival film 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z So what that means is: For the people that in are in that anthill, you gotta test them three times a week and you need the results within 24 hours. Q&A: Soderbergh on his ‘boat movie’ & the blockbuster’s fate 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Inspired by the BP oil spill this year, it transcends the artist’s description of it as a kind of “ironic” Champagne flute to merge suggestions of human, tree and anthill. Art Review: Visual Culture Out of Africa 2010-12-02T23:49:00Z We took over a hotel and the densest part of the anthill stayed there. Q&A: Soderbergh on his ‘boat movie’ & the blockbuster’s fate 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z “So what that means is: For the people that in are in that anthill, you’ve got to test them three times a week and you need the results within 24 hours,” Soderbergh said. Steven Soderbergh’s ‘No Sudden Move’ to premiere at Tribeca 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Begay Sr. uses a walking stick to wind past pockets of yellow flowers, heavily trafficked anthills and the occasional prickly pear. Navajo sheep herding at risk from climate change. Some young people push to maintain the tradition 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z In Staromaiorske, Russian soldiers dug bunkers underneath the village’s houses with multiple exits so a house would erupt like an anthill when under attack, said Dikyi, the Ukrainian commander. Amid the Counterattack’s Deadly Slog, a Glimmer of Success for Ukraine 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z They seek not individual liberty, but an anthill society they can rule. As long as the Spirit of ‘76 endures, America will never die 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk, who likened the rebuilding to a bustling anthill, said residents are eager to close a deeply painful chapter. In Ukraine's Bucha, a 'wounded soul' aches one year after liberation 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z "If I buy fertilizer, it means my grandchildren will not go to school. I had to use anthill soil and compost as manure but, as you know, that will not yield much," said 50-year-old Kanenungo. African smallholder farmers count the cost of fertilizer price spike 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z They also look for good collection points such as anthills, the areas near certain types of indigenous trees and decomposing baobab trees, he said. In Zimbabwe’s rainy season, women forage for wild mushrooms 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The music of the Northwest’s Screaming Trees is a dense, sodden version of the Meat Puppets’ sun-crazed anthills of sound. Van Conner, bassist and co-founder of grunge band Screaming Trees, dies at 55 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Now, a research team has developed the most comprehensive estimate to date of the number of individual ants, one that puts a new perspective on “teeming anthill.” News at a glance: Bringing kids along to field sites, restricting EU trawling, and calling the pandemic ‘over’ 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z The clock says 5:30 a.m., but the parking lot of Sonora Market already has become an anthill as trucks cruise in and out disgorging farmworkers. A California city that became Little El Salvador feels the pain of separation from its parent 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Instead he now makes bricks for sale on the edge of the family land, chipping away at a huge anthill, mixing the mud, and compacting it. Covid in Uganda: The man whose children may never return to school 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z But some better news for Europe on 9, with the Americans well short in two after a wild Thomas drive that nestled on top of an anthill ... Ryder Cup: USA v Europe, day two foursomes – live! 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z So what that means is: For the people that in are in that anthill, you gotta test them three times a week and you need the results within 24 hours. Q&A: Soderbergh on his ‘boat movie’ & the blockbuster’s fate 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z “When you were a kid, remember kicking over the anthill?” Jerry Seinfeld believes NYC will recover from pandemic: 'Let's get back to work' 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z And it was just an anthill, so there was just a discussion there and he didn't think it was necessary for a drop. Bryson DeChambeau argues for ball drop over alleged fire ants, animal-burrowing holes 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The city center swarmed with shoppers like an overturned anthill, he said in an interview. Brazil nears 2 million coronavirus cases, with 75,000 dead 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “It was like kicking off the top of an anthill,” Mr. Thomas recalled. The Walls of the Church Couldn’t Keep the Trump Era Out 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z We took over a hotel and the densest part of the anthill stayed there. Q&A: Soderbergh on his ‘boat movie’ & the blockbuster’s fate 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z “If the anthill eroding the role of rule of law is not cleared, the dam of national security will be destroyed and the wellbeing of all Hong Kong residents will be damaged.” China’s top official in Hong Kong pushes for national security law 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z But as we glided over trees, anthills and dry river beds, I began to become a pro, combining a ration pack with good crackers with another that had good canned cheese. On the Road With the French Foreign Legion 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z Pete made sure every golfer knew Pete produced his puzzles; Mother Nature would never have puckered a sand bunker atop a giant anthill. Pete Dye made golfers doubt themselves 'with invention, deception and railroad ties' - Golf Digest 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z I hate the Southeastern Conference like anthills hate rainstorms. Perspective | Our first (and last) annual Olive-Branch Guide to College Football in 14 Easy Steps 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Except that this mad anthill scramble of presidential candidates, which resembles a bunch of kindergarteners descending on not enough cookies, really hasn’t been fun so far. Escaping the Hickenlooper paradox: Can at least half the 2020 Democrats please quit right now? 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z To say Catarro was skeptical about the pregnancy is like calling Mount Everest an anthill. For brain surgery patient, greatest challenge is motherhood 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z But when I get to the junkyard first thing in the morning, people are scrambling in and out and around the rocket like an upset anthill. It only take one rocket to start a revolution 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z All this has had the uncomfortable effect of "shaking a stick inside an anthill", it suggests. European press sympathy for Mrs May 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Early-modern European naturalists peered into termite mounds, anthills, and beehives and saw microcosms of well-ordered states: monarchs, soldiers, laborers. What Termites Can Teach Us 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z He said: “I’m just an ant in an anthill.” Spanish policeman and thriller writer says he has been told to retire 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z One young woman named Jing describes herself as “feeling like an ant in a big anthill of a gazillion people, all trying to run to the top at the same time.” Review | The dreams, hopes and everyday lives of China’s people 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z At one point on Saturday, meteorologists believed the eye wall of a category 4 hurricane could hit us, a blow that would have turned our peninsula into an island anthill. My family and I survived Hurricane Irma. The fear was real – but we were lucky 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Officials say the main method of treatment would include placing bait granules around the base of individual anthills. Comment sought on proposal to treat fire ants 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z “It’s a change of generation, a kick in the anthill,” he said. Emmanuel Macron’s Amateur Politicians Are Poised to Remake French Parliament 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Many feared they would be sent to remote tower blocks - anthills, in anonymous suburbs. Distress as Moscow home demolitions to go ahead - BBC News 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z “I think Elon’s given us 24 hours, maybe, to get done what we need to get done, and it’s not a million people around a rocket scurrying like a beehive or an anthill,” said Shotwell. Elon Musk’s SpaceX on brink of `Wright Brothers moment’ with reused rocket 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z “The gangs are like an anthill. They are all after the same thing: something to eat.” Killers on a Shoestring: Inside the Gangs of El Salvador 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Reports abound in the local press of public primary schools where lessons are conducted under trees or the children use anthills for desks. Is private education the answer to Uganda’s ailing public schools? - BBC News 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Or, much like the way an abandoned ant colony would leave behind anthills, long-dead microbes may have crafted rocky structures that are preserved in fossil form. NASA’s Bold Plan to Hunt for Fossils on Mars “They looked more like anthills than a beehive,” she said, adding that they “got bigger and bigger and became hornets’ nests.” Margaret Vinci Heldt, hairdresser who took hair to new heights with beehive, dies at 98 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z To build a court, you knocked over anthills and crushed the pebbles into smooth grit and spread it evenly. Tennis Player Rod Laver Recalls Growing Up on Homemade Courts 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z “It’s an anthill compared to what we’ve been through,” she said. More rain a setback for soggy state standing up to flooding 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z "It's an anthill compared to what we've been through," she said. More rain falls on South Carolina, slowing soggy state's recovery after week of flooding 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Consider just a few of the ways Kojima lets you poke his anthills. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Is the Best Ever 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z All that adds up to an anthill I can’t stop poking. 'Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain' Review 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Watson's shot went into an anthill, to which the two-time Masters champ sought relief, on the grounds that it was borrowing soil. Bubba Watson vs. anthill. Who you got?: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z The only holes missing at Chambers Bay are the windmill hole, the anthill hole and the clown's mouth hole. Letters: In the NBA, the King doesn't have the crown 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Steps that once led to a pair of pagoda-style Hindu temples with multi-tiered roofs now lead to nowhere, resembling giant anthills. Damaged by deadly quake, fate of Nepal heritage unsure 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z It was obvious which house he was working on; an anthill of workers swarmed around it, a half-dozen trucks in the street, an orchestra of saws, scaffolding and ladders parked on the street. For Tech Titans, Sharing Has Its Limits 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z "It was literally like kicking an anthill," said Air Force Col. U.S., allies plan tough battle to retake Iraqi city from Islamic State 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z He may as well walk out of town and tie himself to an anthill. From Bill Cosby to Ferguson, a reminder of our rule of law Piles the size of large anthills clutter stairwells. An Indian courthouse investigates reports of unusual suspects: Ghosts Bruce Harrington, the operations manager, likened the hulking beast to an anthill: It seems curiously quiet on the outside, but deep within an army of workers is cutting, welding and testing. Corralling Carbon Before It Belches From Stack 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Forostyak said the model of the Council for Civil Security was an anthill. In Odessa, Home-Grown Combatants Keep Pro-Russia Forces in Check 2014-05-08T17:27:43Z Seventy members—including 19 children—of the Land of Allah sect used to live in an eight-level “underground anthill” in the city of Kazan, awaiting the apocalypse. Inside Russia's End-Time Cults 2012-12-17T05:00:00Z Romney was dead wrong, a victim of his campaign's--and the right-wing media's--tendency to turn molehills into anthills. Viewpoint: A Myopic Presidential Race Without Heart 2012-10-18T17:05:35Z Not a bad start at all considering this team is used to playing back home on old soccer fields strewn with pebbles and the occasional anthill. Despite Loss, Uganda Wins Over Little League World Series Crowd 2012-08-18T22:55:12Z His prosthetic legs now covered by white track pants and wearing sneakers, he then bounded down a set of stairs into the teeming anthill of journalists and thanked them for waiting. Column: Pistorius revolutionizes Olympic notions 2012-08-04T18:14:09Z In hindsight, the effect was like boots stomping on anthills. IHT Rendezvous: The Drones' True Damage 2012-07-26T16:00:36Z Steps are also being taken at various Olympic sites to protect bees, anthills, skylark populations and "veteran trees," Ms. Lennon says. Picture-Perfect Olympic Settings 2012-07-22T20:13:38Z Do ants know they are in an anthill? Out There: Big Data’s Parallel Universe Brings Fears, and a Thrill 2012-06-04T21:43:17Z "The greens were built up, like big anthills," says Pace. From the Archive: Whatever happened to Homero Blancas? 2012-05-18T04:00:00Z A Roumanian charm against toothache is to sit beside an anthill, masticate a crust of bread, spit it out over the anthill, and as the ants eat the bread the toothache will cease. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z The country beneath them seemed to be alive, like an anthill; with this difference, however, that although there were cross currents the general movement was all in one direction. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z She looked across the bay towards Dublin, which was like an anthill possessed by glow-worms, beyond a black abyss. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Beyond the dry bed of the torrent, and towards the east, are a number of sand dunes covered with the soda plant, and looking like anthills in the distance. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z Mr. Cardillo also became interested in ancient Meso-American burial sites that took the form of earthen mounds and began making pieces that he called cupí, from an indigenous Guarani word for anthill. | Long Island: Rimer Cardillo Exhibit in Roslyn Harbor ? Review 2011-11-13T01:05:36Z A fork was better after all than one's fingers, and sitting on a chair in the study than on an anthill in the veld. Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet 2011-08-16T02:00:45.283Z That message is what golf is bellowing through a bullhorn from the top of its anthill. Leading Off: Tiger?s Back! Well, at Least He?s Playing. 2011-08-04T16:37:48Z It's more like a mammoth anthill with more than 650 separate, barely regulated entrances and hundreds of thousands of passageways that follow depleting zinc, tin and silver veins. Bolivia's Murderous Mine: Making a Molehill Out of a Mountain 2011-06-16T09:00:00Z Meanwhile, I undergo much humiliation; whilst ladies make with comfort and ease delightful ascents to neighbouring peaks, I humbly pant up an anthill or two, resting at every third yard—puffy, helpless, effete. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z It is the old story: an anthill of boyish folly, a mountain of blackguardly extortion. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z Douglas Hofstadter once speculated that an anthill might be like a giant brain, with the ants being like individual neurons, sending messages hither and yon. | Crawling Ants 2011-01-24T15:42:09Z The temple of the Great Magician had a ghostly semblance as they approached it; its dome was spattered with moonlight, like a huge anthill flecked with drippings of glow-paint. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z To be able to distinguish one from another among such multitudes, for they are like ants on an anthill, was beyond my comprehension. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Their recalculated goal now is to qualify for next season's Heineken Cup, but having failed to win any of their last five Premiership matches, even that relatively modest target looks more Everest than anthill. Bath 22-26 Ulster 2010-12-20T00:05:06Z Poking an anthill doesn't quite convey the magnitude of the transgression. Economist to bloggers: Shut up, fools 2010-06-28T20:31:00Z Peace with honor was not, however, the way of the Nokobee anthills, and the Streamside dancers suddenly switched to an all-out attack on the Trailhead Colony. 2010-01-18T05:00:00Z Ants and beetles too are very numerous, and anthills are prominent features in many places. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" Over the sloping French countryside thousands of brown tents arose like innumerable, giant anthills, while curling above certain portions of the camp were long columns of smoke. The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory Anthills are few and small in New Zealand, so the lazy man's method of putting shells on an anthill, and letting the insects do the work, is impracticable. Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them There was a stirring of frantic activity like that of a disturbed anthill, but it was just as silent. The Year When Stardust Fell I wanted to read--I saw the letters but could not read a word, for they all seemed to be moving about the page, like so many ants in an anthill. On the Heights A Novel I was brought up, however, by a rock, in the middle of a large anthill. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. Sparks were falling on an anthill nearby and the ants in great excitement were running hither and thither with their eggs. The Shoemaker's Apron A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales He had some slaves with him, and he clothed their legs with buffalo hide, and placed cooking-pots on their heads, and told them to go among the anthills. My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories After Sunday School Sube proceeded homeward a few laggard steps, when his attention was arrested by a most unusual anthill in a crack near the center of the sidewalk. Sube Cane A moth, upon the torches' fervent ray; An anthill, at the foot of 'Catapetl. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation A wild, rugged waste, you say, at first, glancing at the rushes, and the gaunt signpost standing up among them, the anthills, and thistles. The Hills and the Vale The biggest problem was getting the animals out of their shells, unless there were some anthills on the island. The Wailing Octopus They had seen several long black snakes which had taken lodging in the anthills. My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories So he pretended that he had not noticed her, and for several minutes confined his attention to the anthill. Sube Cane Clee could not help but compare him to a stoical man staked out on an anthill to die.... Astounding Stories, July, 1931 The flickers paused in harrying prairie anthills and chuckling fled to the nearest sheltering trees. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Many lead to the pens of the Aphides; they reach from the anthill as far as the foot of a plant where these insects are abundant. The Industries of Animals These had already killed five cows, and lately had taken to attacking the travellers along the road that leads by the anthills, when an Arab, named Massoudi, hearing of their trouble, undertook to kill them. My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories Don Pedro had issued such a command as this, with as much indifference as he would have placed his foot upon an anthill. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots Most winged, gentle, and etherial of all the dwellers in, or on, anthills,—know that thy similitude is nothing meaner than a flower. Say and Seal, Volume II He was reminded of times when he had stepped on anthills in the woods and thousands of the little creatures milled about in confusion under his feet. The Saracen: The Holy War His cell was the top floor of one of the towers fortifying the Dominican chapter house, an anthill of constant, mysterious activity. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel In a little valley he saw the heather burning and the fire spreading fast towards an anthill, and all the ants were hurrying to and fro, not knowing whither to go. The Lilac Fairy Book The hotel burst into activity like a kicked anthill. David and the Phoenix Mr. Linden repeated,—"Mignonette?—that is even below the level of some of your anthills." Say and Seal, Volume II As a rule the banks in this section are marked by anthills and scrub. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" The girls' restricted surroundings have yielded new joys since they learned the delight of an observation beehive, the ramifications of an anthill, and the notes and habits of the birds which visit us. The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow Encased in their colossal machine-bodies of glittering metal, and armed with such terrible weapons as the black ray projector, the Shining Ones would be as invulnerable as men trampling an anthill underfoot. The Cavern of the Shining Ones Any one must be as simple as a new-born infant to squat on an anthill. Adventures of a Young Naturalist By correlating Posterior to Sensory, thus: Posterior … Post-Mortem … Insensible … Sensory; or Anterior to Motor, thus: Anterior … Ant … disturbed anthill … commotion … Motor; or Anterior … antediluvian … rush of water … water-power … Motor. Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget The anthills in one valley are so close together "that they somewhat resemble a gigantic graveyard." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" A little earlier in the evening another glowing anthill had been found by one of our officers, and the thought of possible soup at once suggested itself. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Evidently they knew not whether I was friend or foe, for they reconnoitred my prostrate form behind the anthill with great circumspection and caution; but I speedily recognised comrades-in-arms. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War We were being fired at from the river-bank on the north, and from anthills, etc., pretty well all round, and were also under the intermittent shell-fire from the two guns. The Defence of Duffer's Drift The lobby of the Public Relations Bureau was swarming like an upturned anthill when Pete disembarked from the taxi. PRoblem The inventions of war whose constant improvement was the pride of the human race offered no more obstacle to the Grass than a few anthills might to a herd of stampeding elephants. Greener Than You Think I also fortunately found a warm anthill, which the Boers earlier in the day had hollowed out and turned into an excellent stove or cooking-place. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Tired out, half-starved and as disconsolate as the donkey in the stable, I sat myself on an anthill. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War I saw two poor fellows trying to build up a pitiful little kind of house of cards with stones and pieces of anthill through which to fire. The Defence of Duffer's Drift Hundreds of them, like human anthills; and one thought, What strange place is this, where men fear to walk upright? The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 “Thy breasts are like unto small anthills,” he said, “and thy belly is as smooth as yonder river rock.” Witch-Doctors Looking down from the trail, they were like innumerable anthills blocking up the narrow channel, and around them swarmed the little ant-men in never-resting activity. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance I threw myself flat on my face, seeking the anthill as cover, prepared to sell my life dearly should they prove to be Englishmen. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War Lines of negroes, naked to the waist, sacks on their glistening backs, poured out from the warehouses like ants from an anthill, but yelling to out-vie the carters. Plotting in Pirate Seas "And think of the grand view they had before their doors, with the canyon in places as much as thirteen miles across, and mountains in their dooryard, looking like anthills," Bob went on impressively. The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave “We must have a shot at something, Bonny,” said I, dismounting, and sitting down on an anthill. Six Months at the Cape The anthills, though very extensive, were not so fantastic as those we saw in Africa. Southern Arabia While in a brown study on this anthill, 30 men on horseback suddenly dashed up towards me from the direction of Elandslaagte. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War In the advances of our own men, anthills and stones were practically the only cover to be obtained, and little or no help was given by variations in the general surface. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre Why, the Pyramids must be as anthills to Chimborazo in comparison to it! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. They have better work on hand than to be for ever bending over us to lift a blade of grass or drop a leaf in the little paths of our anthill. The Buried Temple "And what are people but a kind of superior ant, and the grandest palaces but big anthills?" My Friend the Chauffeur There are anthills, rushes, and other indications of not too rich a soil in this meadow, and in places the prickly restharrow grows among the grass, bearing its pink flower in summer. Nature Near London True or false, the story results in every anthill being carefully searched. I Married a Ranger The first hour, covering some three miles, lay partly over a flat plain of grass used for thatch, pimpled with red anthills and broken by lines and patches of dense jungle. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative And all that will furnish only a very incomplete idea of the innumerable obligations the aquatic anthill, from an industrial and military standpoint, which is called a naval base, has to meet. Fighting France So a theatre-fire would be when They'd touched the anthill with one of their cigars, to make the ants run out. My Friend the Chauffeur Thinking of the partridges makes me notice the anthills. Nature Near London Many months had passed since the two friends first saw the Black Mountain, compared with which the mightiest highland in wild Donegal, land of mountains, was an anthill. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Have any of you, my readers, observed the ruins of an anthill immediately after its destruction? The Last Man But Chet was already out the door, digging Debbie Carr's purse from under the planter, then running, doubled over the bulge it made in his shirt, hunting for a private space in the anthill. Home Again, Home Again The news stirred the ship as an intruding foot stirs an anthill. In the Roaring Fifties Dampier and his companions may have mistaken some anthills for rocks. The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts. Stone boiling is unknown in these countries, but ovens are made in anthills. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 Ants were also numerous, and in one spot they located fifteen anthills, each as large as a big beehive. The Rover Boys on Land and Sea The Crusoes of Seven Islands We find them everywhere about us, in monster cities, huge thoughtless anthills of them, and they will not let us live a larger and a richer life. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy "Yes, sir," said the recruit, in a voice of cool desperation, "and do you know that this is an anthill?" Best Short Stories He came to an anthill and won all the hearts and enlisted the sympathies of the industrious little people. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 The plain extending from the Lundé to the town of Casembe is level, and studded pretty thickly with red anthills, from 15 to 20 feet high. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 With great promptness he took up the ear-rings in his mouth and then entered an anthill. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 The Boers, on the other hand, such as I have seen yet, are decidedly awkward-looking customers, crafty, but in deadly earnest, versed in veldt wars and knowing the country to an anthill. With Rimington The whole country, both hill and valley, wood and plain, abounds with anthills, some of which are six or eight feet high, and twice as much in circumference. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 We lose the power of understanding their motions, and their throngs and movements do indeed seem as purposeless at this height as the hurry-scurrying about an anthill. Prose Fancies (Second Series) It looked," he says, "as if it ought to have been a lonely country, but it was swarming with men; they were thick as ants in an anthill. The Angels of Mons The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War Taking his staff he began to pierce that anthill. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Another jumps up on to an anthill to get a better view. With Rimington An anthill, a beehive, a rabbit-warren are his models of domestic comfort: what is stinted room for two Americans is spaciousness for a dozen Chinese. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 He creeps into other beasts' holes, tears up the anthills, cracks the snail's shell. The Duel and Other Stories We had a good morning drill over what is perfect artillery country, with just the right amount of excitement in the shape of ditches to jump, and anthills, which are legion, and holes to avoid. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. As characteristics of this poor soil, the first objects to attract the attention are the enormous pinnacled anthills of red clay and sand, often with supporting buttresses. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 Entrance into this anthill is sometimes by personal favor, sometimes by examination. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History Some large anthills, and very small palm trees, not six feet in height, were noticed for the first time so far south. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. Farther away the partridges stole quietly to an anthill at the edge of some barley. Hodge and His Masters The fireplace was a platform of earth, taken from anthills, and heaped and spread on the boards of the boat. Through the Brazilian Wilderness In sailing along the coast, these anthills may be distinctly seen from the distance of two or three miles. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 For the lower one, try to imagine a male ant, coming from some state of existence where ants live in pairs, endeavoring to set up housekeeping with a female ant from a highly developed anthill. Herland But what, perhaps, most attracted our attention, was the very surprising size of the anthills, or nests. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. I fancied the city a giant anthill, and searched with my glass as if I expected to see the ants swarming out. City of Endless Night The cities are scattered over the world like anthills, Every one of them is full of trouble and toil, And their makers run to and fro within them. Songs out of Doors La Corrala was a seething, feverish world in little, as busy as an anthill. The Quest Now, of course, if she was a stray female in a country of pairing ants, he might have had his way with her; but if he was a stray male in an anthill—! Herland They pack themselves away like ants in an anthill. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago One night our camp was pitched near an anthill, inhabited by innumerable millions of those insects. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America They were off on a tremendous adventure, with anthills for mountains and clover-stems for the tree-trunks of forests in the path. Over the Pass The circumstance of serpents taking up their abode in the large anthills, must be entirely accidental.--E. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time This place is just like an enormous anthill—you know an anthill is nothing but a nursery. Herland The amazing organisation of an anthill 'emerges' from the bottom up, in a collective demonstration of each ant's evolved instincts. Open Source Democracy Canst thou,—asks our Lord, looking with loving sadness on the hurry and the struggle of the human anthill—canst thou by taking thought add one cubit to thy stature? All Saints' Day and Other Sermons With a board the thoughtless child ____ the anthill. The Century Vocabulary Builder On the walls of the rooms in this building where the postal uniforms were being made, the cockroaches were crawling, and in some places were swarming as thick as ants about an anthill. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Oh, if you go back to insects—and want to live in an anthill—! Herland Who, by an examination of the brain of a bee or of an ant, could foresee the intricate organized industry of the hive or the anthill? A Handbook of Ethical Theory So this great green hill, upon which you might run or play, is inside like what I think some of those large anthills must be,—traversed by galleries, and full of rooms and long passages. The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children The "termes arborum" is universal, and anthills form a prominent feature. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 The Piazza was like the camp about a fair, the inns were like anthills, the very churches were full. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca For where in the whole world, except indeed upon an anthill, can we find so busy, so industrious, or so orderly a community as among the bees? The Fairy-Land of Science You will be pegged out on an anthill, sahib, when you have been beaten. Told in the East When within thirty yards of the groups, I discovered the heads of two men appear above an anthill on my left, with the barrels of their guns carelessly pointed toward the road. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley I said that if you played me false I would bury you to the neck in an anthill and fill your mouth with honey. Heart of the Sunset I dreamed I scaled By winding stairs a turret, from whose height Moscow appeared an anthill, where the people Seethed in the squares below and pointed at me With laughter. Boris Godunov: a drama in verse Above the well, to the, North, high anthills and tussocks of coarse grass appeared. Spinifex and Sand One by one they disappear, swallowed up in the adjoining anthills. Under Fire: the story of a squad "Didn't she make you feel like an ant in an anthill?" asked Belle, cheerfully watching the departing carriage. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby I have often seen him step aside, lest he should tread on an anthill, and thus destroy the industrious little creatures' habitation. Two Festivals About the stock-exchange, which frowned like a gray fortress at the foot of La Salle Street, all was excitement—as though a giant anthill had been ruthlessly disturbed. The Titan In a little valley he saw the heather burning and the fire spreading fast towards the anthill, and all the ants were hurrying to and fro, not knowing whither to go. The Lilac Fairy Book The ground was very rough, being a complete city of anthills about two feet high; these were overgrown with grass, giving the open country an appearance of a vast churchyard of turf graves. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon In every fold and behind every anthill the Irishmen lay thick and waited for better times. The Great Boer War The Ajawa headman left the path on seeing us, and stood on an anthill to obtain a complete view of our party. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 It was a human anthill that an invading sea had caught by surprise! Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea It was exactly like some enormous anthill into which an idle traveller had thrust his cane. The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment A little later, Tucker, who was sitting on the end of a big log at the woodpile, looked up in surprise from the anthill he was watching. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields As it passed a hollowed-out antheap it knelt down, and stuffed in the saddlebags with the man's clothing, closing up the anthill with bits of ground to look as natural as possible. The Story of an African Farm, a novel He gave a long whistle and sat smiling at the little red anthill. 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