"Maggot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... no larger than my arm, and his arms were but half the size of my wrist, and jointed twice instead of but once. He wore a careless garment of some dirty yellow, shaggy hide, and his skin, revealed on feet and arms and face, was a terrible, bloodless white; the dead white of a fish's belly. Maggot white. The white of something that had never ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various
... insects; but the best course is prevention by deeply cultivating and thoroughly enriching in the fall, leaving the ground rough and uneven for the deep action of frost, and by sowing the seed VERY early in spring. I have found that the insect usually attacks late-sown and feeble plants. If the maggot were in my garden, I should use the little ...
— The Home Acre • E. P. Roe
... professional names to the various specimens of entomology which infested their stores. Thus, a large maggot found in the ...
— The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth • Edward Osler
... after a silence he continued, "Speaking of dust, 'out of which we came and to which we shall return,' do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy fat bellies. ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans
... your head? Come, as you say; admit that you wish to see my hand without showing yours. A baton is not much for me, as you have hinted, but it is all that was promised me. And you, if we win, will still be minister of finances? What is that maggot I see behind your eyes? Is it not spelled 'chancellor'? But, remember, Madame has friends to take care of in the event of our success. We can not have all the spoils. To join the kingdom and the duchy will create new offices, to be sure, ...
— The Puppet Crown • Harold MacGrath
... get. The majority of my readers will be obliged to ride with the hounds that happen to live nearest their dwelling; it is only given to the few to be able to choose their hunting country and change their stud whenever the maggot bites them. After hard brain-work and gray hairs have told on the pulse, or when the opening of the nursery-door has almost shut the stable, a couple of hours or so once a week may be made pleasant and profitable on a thirty-pound hack for the quartogenarian, whom time ...
— A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses • J. S. Rarey
... Jealousie that maggot of the pate, Possess the Sot, how violent's his hate, What curst suspitions haunt his tortur'd Mind, And make him look for what he would not find, Nothing but Females must i'th House appear, And not a Dog or Cat, that's Male be there, Nay lest the unhappy wife shou'd have her longings, He cuts ...
— The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses From Women • Various
... live, my Meg and me, How we love, and how we 'gree, I care na by how few may see; Whistle o'er the lave o't.— Wha I wish were maggot's meat, Dish'd up in her winding sheet, I could write—but Meg maun see't— Whistle ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... which one feels in perceiving these thousands of imperceptible sounds which are confounded, on a fine summer day, in an immense murmuring. The bumble-bee has his song as well as the nightingale, the honey-bee is the warbler of the mosses, the cricket is the lark of the tall grass, the maggot is the wren—it has only a sigh, but the sigh ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne
... don't get that maggot agait again. My mother'd ban us both, should her ears side ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 63, January, 1863 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... my vengeance. I am too weak at present to enjoy the sight of your torture, and the music of your groans. Back to your dungeon, dog; yet stay—the dwarf may kill you, and thus cheat me of my revenge; it is not safe to confine you with him any longer. Maggot and Bloodhound, take Sydney and shut him up in the ...
— City Crimes - or Life in New York and Boston • Greenhorn
... first leaves the egg, is termed grub, maggot, worm, or larva; from this state it changes to the shape of the perfect bee, which is said to be three days after finishing the cocoon; from the time of this change, till it is ready to leave the cell, ...
— Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained • M. Quinby
... maggot into her head," presently resumes Lady Hannah's spouse, "I can't think. I did suppose her vaultin' ambition to rival Dora Corr—woman who managed to burn her own and a lot of other people's fingers by meddlin' in South African politics over the Raid business—had ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... aunt Jane would not come, for some maggot or other; and as for Jem! I don't know what you've all been doing to him, but he's as down-hearted a chap as I'd wish to see. He's had his sorrows sure enough, poor lad! But it's time for him to be shaking off his dull looks, and not go moping like ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... say blood win have blood: Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; Augurs and understood relations have By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth ...
— Style • Walter Raleigh
... "What maggot has the gaffer got in his head now?" said Tangs the elder. "Sommit to do with that chiel of his! When you've got a maid of yer own, John Upjohn, that costs ye what she costs him, that will take the squeak out of your Sunday shoes, John! But you'll never ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy
... he foamed. "I'll—well square you, you lump o lard with the heart of a maggot!" He stopped, steadying down ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant |
