"Exterminator" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Microgaster glomeratus. the exterminator of the Cabbage Caterpillar. method of feeding. emergence from the host. cocoons. the adult. pairing. food. the eggs laid ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre
... these many years at the hands of these roving adventurers, these buccaneers and pirates whose names were a terror all along the Main. He told of the horrid cruelties of Lollonois, of the bloody Montbars called the "Exterminator," of the cold, merciless ferocity of Black Bartlemy and of such lesser rouges as Morgan, Tressady, Belvedere and others of ...
— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol
... should be collected with a definite purpose by the taxidermist, and not merely for pastime, or he will degenerate into that most Odious of all created beings—a collector for the sake of collecting, or what used to be called an "exterminator." Indeed, I have known of a case in which over 1600 of the males of a certain species were caught in one day, "assembled" by the attractions of seven or eight females. These figures seem incredible, but for the fact that I myself saw ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne
... the steward's state-room, Mr. Reardon helped himself to the entire box of bedbug exterminator and addressed ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... the arid ridge Of dead Vesuvius, Exterminator terrible, That by no other tree or flower is cheered, Thou scatterest thy lonely leaves around, O fragrant flower, With desert wastes content. Thy graceful stems I in the solitary paths have found, The city that surround, That once was mistress of the world; ...
— The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi • Giacomo Leopardi
... right, while his opponents and his victims were as invariably in the wrong. If there ever had lived and reigned a man who could not do wrong, it was preposterous to look for him in one who had been a wife-killer, a persecutor, the slayer of the nobility of his kingdom, the exterminator of the last remnants of an old royal race, the patron of fagots and ropes and axes, and a hard-hearted and selfish voluptuary, who seems never to have been open to one kind or generous feeling. Most of those tyrants that have been hung up ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 57, July, 1862 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various |
