| 单词 | pismire |
| 例句 | 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 Egypt, it seemed an easy dive to the bottom of the deep, to pluck drowned honor, but there was Ann, pinch-faced, wanting to scourge, and sting with pismires. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Then why do you squirm at the minute catastrophe of a few thousands or150 millions of pismires crushed under the wheels of evolution. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z An ancient name for the ant is “pismire,” probably a Danish word, from paid and myre, signifying such ants as live in hillocks. Folk-lore of Shakespeare I know her by her waist, So long and thin, And so pinch'd in, Just in the pismire taste. Old and New London Volume I He did not walk, he paced, as if he were stepping upon pismires, with his feet wide apart. The Co-Citizens I never saw her again; that was fate, or...to never see the wanted is that phenomenal blindness; to never have the beauty is pismire. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Never were pismires so terrified before; nor did arrow ever swifter cleave the air, as these insects scrambled over the blades of grass and chips of wood. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition Urad, perceiving that they were gone, wished herself into her original form, but alas! her wish was not granted, and the once beautiful Urad still continued an ugly pismire. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers And amid the suave enveloping greatness of the world the human pismires stung each other and were cruel, and full of hate and malice and a petty rage. The House with the Green Shutters Well, you see as how I waited, and my mind was like as it might ha' been set on a pismire hillock, I waur so uneasy. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 I've got a thousand-legged worm at the head of a pismire flush, and it serves us right, for a lot of slovens. Woodcraft The humblest of creatures has its uses—'even the little pismire,' you know, as Izaak Walton tells us. The Eye of Osiris The cloth was spread, the saffron cakes, ship's butter, yellow mugs, coffee, pork, and pismires temptingly arrayed. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses He was furious, and rising up in his place, declared: "I might as well move to lay the bill on the table and to write as its epitaph—'nibbled to death by pismires!'" Fifty Years of Public Service Were I Leviathan, whose bones were long ago picked clean by pismires, I could perform nothing. Chivalry The day arrived when the dreadful combat was to take place, and thousands of people assembled in the vast amphitheatre built for the purpose, to which even the huge pyramids seemed as pismires’ nests. The Seven Champions of Christendom Mice, moles and pismires cause the jaundies in trees, known by the discolour of the leaves and buds. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees Bravery and Cæsar were synonymous terms, and the little, mean, pismire ambitions of Roman politicians he despised, striding over their corrupt schemes for pelf and office like a winter whirlwind. Shakspere, Personal Recollections My persecuting enemies seem so many pismires; and as for my debts, which have occasioned me so many brooding moments, honour and infamy, credit and beggary, seem to me alike ridiculous.' Ixion In Heaven He abandoned it in disgust, declaring that it had been "nibbled to death by pismires." Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Celia: You would never be satisfied and you to see me working from dark to dark as hard as a pismire in the tufts. Three Wonder Plays He spoke of himself as a “shrimp of an author,” and expressed the fear that his works might be mistaken for those of “a pismire or a flea.” The Art of Letters Mark the vanity of the pismire on your left hand. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England I dread your coming to the Abbey.—We that are here already, shall only, then, appear like pismires:—but let me caution my friend not to think his head will touch the clouds. Barford Abbey A light dawned upon the intellect of that pismire. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull Were I Leviathan, whose bones were long ago picked clean by pismires, I could perform nothing against the will of many human pismires. Chivalry Observe how the whole swarm divide and make way for the pismire that passes through them! The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant And in other times, when it is not so hot, and that the pismires ne rest them not in the earth, then they get gold by this subtlety. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville They didn't come down from thrones in heaven like falling stars; they crawled up from holes in the earth like vicious little pismires. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 We might as well apply the same code to the fierce Malay who runs amuck and to McAllister's fashionable pismires. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 At first he said he was a pismire, but the Speaker said pismire was not parliamentary, and he modified it to grasshopper. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 But in this molehill many pismires be, All which will sting, before they be remov'd. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 In the isle also of this Taprobane be great hills of gold, that pismires keep full diligently. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Why, look you, I am whipped and scourged with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke. The Man Shakespeare The humblest of creatures has its uses—'even the little pismire,' you know, as Isaak Walton tells us. The Vanishing Man —Call me not ugly thing; God' wisdom hath unto the pismire given, And spiders may teach men the way to Heaven. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Yet all this lenity will not overcome their spleen; they will be doing with the pismire, raising a hill a man may spurn abroad with his foot at pleasure. Every Man in His Humor And these pismires be great as hounds, so that no man dare come to those hills for the pismires would assail them and devour them anon. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville We are like the pismires destroyed by the plough; whose destruction prevents not the future crop. Letters from an American Farmer Truly 'tis said: "For ruin and the deeds preluding change, Fear not great Beasts, nor Eagles when they range: But dread the crawling worm or pismire mean, Satan selects them, for they are unseen." Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith But, sluggard, is it not a shame for thee To be outdone by pismires? Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Truly 'tis said: "For ruin and the deeds preluding change, Fear not great Beasts, nor Eagles when they range: But dread the crawling worm or pismire mean, Satan selects them, for they are unseen." The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete And therefore when it is great heat, the pismires rest them in the earth, from prime of the day into noon. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Truly 'tis said: "For ruin and the deeds preluding change, Fear not great Beasts, nor Eagles when they range: But dread the crawling worm or pismire mean, Satan selects them, for they are unseen." The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4 They were bitten by pismires an inch long, and by the unmerciful tzetze fly. The Life of Sir Richard Burton Must we unto the pismire go to school, To learn of her in summer to provide For winter next ensuing. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 But 'tis with a design only to gain What may their age with plenteous ease maintain; The prudent pismire does this lesson teach, And industry to lazy mankind preach. Cowley's Essays For the pismires will suffer beasts to go and pasture amongst them, but no man in no wise. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Over hills, over dales, over mountains, over moors he flew, with the brown earth lying so far below that horses and cows looked like pismires and men like fleas. Twilight Land Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourged with rods, Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke. King Henry IV, Part 1 Give but my spirit its desired scope, - A giant in a pismire, I not grope; Deny it,—and an ant, with on my back A firmament, the skiey vault will crack. Poems |
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