Cocoons

"With respect to the cocoons spun by the different larvæ, both workers and drones spin _complete cocoons_, or inclose themselves on every side; royal larvæ construct only _imperfect cocoons_, open behind, and enveloping only the head, thorax, and first ring of the abdomen; and ❋ Unknown (1852)

The real problem with everybody insulating themselves into these ideological cocoons is that, in the end, if everybody is an expert then nobody is an expert. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The “loner artist,” on the one hand a capitalist plot to ensure we all stay in our cocoons, is simultaneously a capitalist dupe, resisting the deeper satisfactions of communal life. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One of the best things about spring, in addition to people emerging from their winter cocoons, is the music you get to indulge in, those songs that sound like people emerging from their cocoons. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Groaning silently, the two Berzerkers writhed on the ground as the tendrils encased them in cocoons. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Waste silks include the pierced cocoons, that is, those from which the moth has come out by making the hole and breaking the fibers in one end of the cocoon; the waste made in the filatures in producing raw or reeled silk, chiefly the outside fiber of the cocoon and the inside next the chrysalis; and also the waste made in manufacture. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In this string of cocoons, which is the oldest, which the youngest? ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

It's a tiny hotel, with just 37 rooms (called cocoons, bungalows and villas) and a restaurant, spa and (sigh) champagne bar and the aim is relaxation - the hotel has apparently been inspired by the lavender fields of southern France, and the owner has promised it will be ❋ Unknown (2010)

The job of waiting up to bow and welcome the geisha home almost always fell to the most junior of the "cocoons" — as the young geisha-in-training were often called. ❋ Golden, Arthur, 1957- (1997)

The bacteria causing these diseases shelter inside "cocoons" of wax and are difficult to reach with antibiotics. ❋ Unknown (1985)

The small, hibernating "cocoons" found on and around the buds in winter and the tortuous tubes observed on the leaves in summer and fall, which have been referred to (_Proteopteryx deludana_), probably belong to this species. ❋ Unknown (1920)

They wear ankle rattles of dry cocoons that shush softly with their carefully orchestrated movement; they know this is serious business. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

Locked away in our private cocoons, our chief way of imagining what other people are like has become the media, and as a consequence we naturally expect all strangers will be murderers, swindlers and paedophiles. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He boiled their cocoons, extracting the threads with combs to make socks and gloves. ❋ Unknown (2012)

And so, as Beings of Light, they tucked themselves into cocoons, and as Beings of War they emerged, burning like nuclear reactors, wings aflame with furious love for the fragile creatures they had yet to know. ❋ Brianne Baxtali (2011)

I felt cocoons burst open as butterflies filled my stomach. ❋ Jennette Fulda (2011)

Will the next generation hide in the cocoons of their homes and condos, only interacting through virtual media, too afraid to talk to anyone? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Breaking cocoons on 12 May 2010 at 8: 04 am Caroline Starr Rose ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's no wonder that we lose track of time — we're counting all wrong, starting with winter and holding our breaths until the robins burst from their cocoons or whatever it is that robins go as the bleak breaks upon November. ❋ Joshua Moses (2011)

Ben was innocently writing his [thesis], when [Gram] came in and started playing cocoons, they both [fell off] the bed ❋ Bengramin Duth Sutt (2013)

Some [sociologist] say that [more and more] more Americans, tired of [increasing] discomforts and cost of travel take to cocooning in one's own home. ❋ Luddz (2015)

Person A: "Is Andrew coming to the party?" Person B: "Nah he's [cocooning]." Person A: "[What for]?" Person B: "He's trying to [get in shape]." ❋ Theguyfromthepole (2013)

"wow alex was an ugly child!" "yeah man but she's a cocooner" "definitely" "it's [too bad] her sister was a [reverse cocooner]" "i know [tell me about it]" ❋ Ugaswimmer (2008)

Girl walks into living room where she see's her sister watching tv, tightly [cuddled] into a blanket. Girl: "Aw, look at you all [nestled] up there." Sister: "Yeah, im [cocooning], it's the best way to keep warm." ❋ MissMakeup (2011)

[I am] [going] to [cocoon] myself. ❋ Dawn Keebals (2020)

I put on my favorite [bulky] clothes and laid on the [sofa] for hours. I was cocooning because I did not want to be [bothered] by anyone today. ❋ Suzie Quinn (2007)

Dave - I have not seen Jeff in [weeks]? Joe - He`s cocooned man. He has entered [the twilight zone] of his own mind and no one is [invited]. ❋ Flightyzeus (2012)

Ah [cocoon] has been [pissing me off] [lately] ❋ Bitch Queen (2019)

last night me and my wife bought a [hammock] and [set it up] in the backyard and [cocooned]. ❋ Billybob12435 (2010)