1 In his drowsy condition he inhaled the latter insect, sneezed violently, and so returned to consciousness.
2 It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect.
3 I want now to tell you, gentlemen, whether you care to hear it or not, why I could not even become an insect.
4 I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect.
5 Our servile rabble applauded, but I attacked him, not from compassion for the girls and their fathers, but simply because they were applauding such an insect.
6 Zverkov, without a word, examined me as though I were an insect.
7 Suddenly they heard a remote sound, like the hum of a giant insect, and following the high-road, which wound whiter through the surrounding twilight, a black object rushed across their vision.
8 While we were lying there against the warm bank, a little insect of the palest, frailest green hopped painfully out of the buffalo grass and tried to leap into a bunch of bluestem.
9 He untied the handkerchief, separated her hair with his fingers, and stood looking down at the green insect.
10 The insect voices of the night sang solemnly.
11 The silent being who thus occupied himself seemed to be of no more account in life than an insect.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath 12 He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes 13 He had already on his insect hunts learned to penetrate the Grimpen Mire, and so had found a safe hiding-place for the creature.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 15. A Retrospection 14 To bear even the sting of an insect for all eternity would be a dreadful torment.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 15 Corley swung his head to and fro as if to toss aside an insistent insect, and his brows gathered.