A multitude ot noxious animals infeft the country: adders, fna ices, fcorpions, rand toads, are the conftant inhabitants of the fields, gardens, and hoafes; the air ❋ Unknown (1797)
Crocodiles, of an aitonifliing Cze, infeft the banks of the rivers, devowinir I'uch lieafts as fall in their way; and men are protected from their fury by no other method than carrying torr hes: they have even been known, in the night« to feise people in their boats. ❋ Unknown (1797)
Wolves are the chief beafts of prey that infeft Spain. ❋ Unknown (1797)
In the middle country a fourth or fifth part of them may have fuch firelocks as they had provided to deflroy the noxious animals whicli infeft their farms; and on the weftern fide of the Blue Ridge they arc generally armed with rifles. ❋ Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. Cn (1796)
Sometimes the plant be - comes dry, and is deftroyed by another very common infeft; at other times, the leaves, which arc the valuable part of the plant, are devoured in the Ipace of tvvcnty-iour hours by catcrpillers. ❋ Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. Cn (1796)
Every part of the creation ferves under hira, and he can com million a gnat, or a %, or the meancft infeft, to be the executioner of his enemies. ❋ Unknown (1794)
Jlhents to Amphion and Zethus, a bpil being heated by T thealUxftriotus ppwer of the fun then beware of a fnalady of no trifling nature, whidi fiiall infeft the city. ❋ Unknown (1794)
This contaft conftituting, as has been juft obferved, the matrix by which the infeft is produced, the embryo barnacle fettled on the m plank, and nourifhed either by the plank, or the water, or both, remains ftationary; ❋ William Langworthy (1793)
The variety of fruits, flowers, and birds, of which I had a tranfient view in this magnificent gar - den, would have fupplied a naturalift with amufement for a month; but I faw no remark - able infeft, and no reptile of any kind. ❋ William Jones, Warren Hastings, William Chambers (1792)
Semina fubrotundo-reniformia, nauco fragili nitenti te of a much larger fize than any of the others: they are placed in fuch a manner that the points of the teeth of one range look exadlly contrary to thofe of the other; and by this means muft enable the infeft to commit the moft fevere depredations on fuch animals as are its deftined food. ❋ Unknown (1791)
Befides the relaxing humidity of the cli* mate, the conunon food of the inhabitants contributes much to the prevalence of moil difeafes which infeft this principality. ❋ Unknown (1791)
I wake: How happy they, who wake no more t Yet that were vain, if dreams infeft the grave. ❋ Unknown (1790)
And feme, with whom compar'd your infeft-tribes 6c - ❋ Unknown (1790)
How happy would the worm have been, could it then have put on wings and become a flying infeft! ❋ Unknown (1789)
* 'Whence tempefts rage? or yellow plagues infeft? ❋ Unknown (1785)
Which thus infeft thy quiet, they create Within my breaft the pity of a friend: ❋ Unknown (1785)
Du Halde§ alfo informs us, that when the infeft is very young, it is much di - fturbcd by the barking of a dog, or crowing of 'a cock, which inconve - niences they will probably experience in moft parts of Engfand, where there may be attempts to rear the lilk worm. ❋ Unknown (1785)
From the fmall reptile to th* enormons whale i From the ftrong eagle ftooping from the ikies To the low infeft that efcapes thy eyes! ❋ Unknown (1785)
An im - menfe number and variety of fnakes infeft this country; and thefe, indeed, form one of it's moft capital inconveniences. ❋ Unknown (1783)
It feems to be his opinion, that it is no lefs inhuman to crufh to death a harmlefs infeft, whofe only of - fence is, that he eats the food which nature has provided for his fuftenance, than it would be to kill a more bulky creature for the fame reafori. ❋ Unknown (1781)
