I slept on a plank that was infested with cockroaches. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
They feed mostly on very small insects and eggs, such as infest the bark of trees, but will eat almost anything offered them; even meat they will peck from. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
This consists, for the most part, of caterpillars, particularly such as infest apple-trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Here were no cackling old women, or groaning Methodists, such as infest our English churches, and scare one's ears with hoarse coughs accompanied by the naso obligato. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents] Reference
The food of the various Greenlets or Vireos is made up almost entirely of insects, of which a large per cent are caterpillars, such as infest shade trees and the larger shrubs. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.] Reference
No titles shall freeze us, no grandeurs infest. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
They infest things and move them and make them move. From Wordnik.com. [S OWN STORY(1)] Reference
Epizoa: insects that infest the body surface of animals. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Others are getting the worms and insects that infest the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Though insects do infest redwoods, none can singularly kill mature trees. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Remaining Old Growth Redwood Forests] Reference
Other species eat most of the scales which infest fruit and forest trees. From Wordnik.com. [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference
Crocodiles infest the stream that winds around and about the Malay houses. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Both the small and large Roundworms infest the intestines of cattle and calves. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
The whole wilderness blossomed into a garden, but they feel as reptiles that infest them. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
Both of these species infest rats also, so the chain of evidence is practically complete. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
A general discussion of parasitism; life-history of some common parasites that infest man. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
This snake is the most remarkable of the different species of snake that infest the western wilds. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
Crows cover its branches like cockroaches that infest every curving branch and constantly hop around. From Wordnik.com. [Mr.Dostoevsky] Reference
Hamas militants are known to infest the quarter, yet Abu Ulbah apparently had little contact with them. From Wordnik.com. [A Lethal Eruption] Reference
Many infest our large cities, and these are dignified by the city directories as "floating population.". From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
He has used those very words in public places; infest the colony and be like a plague of hungry locusts. From Wordnik.com. [The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country] Reference
These birds feed on the ticks or insects which infest the animals 'skin, and also give warning of danger. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
This tree is not bothered by the curculio since the curculio does not infest the large butternut near it. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
Sakarran are the pirates who infest the coast of Borneo, and do material damage to the trade of Singapore. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
There is nothing from GREECE, but accounts of the depredations of the robbers which now infest all parts of the country. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
On the 21st, we got through Alice, and saw three prow-vessels, who are a very daring set of pirates that infest those seas. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
Ants, cockroaches, mice, and other pests infest dirty places where food is kept, and render a house unfit for human habitation. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
I wish he would set to work and catch some of the mice which infest the house, and run over me when I am asleep in the night time. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
The bands of robbers which infest the mountains, in the Papal States, have been dislodged from some of their strongholds, by the united. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Mr. PINKWATER: Well, have you noticed - I sure have noticed, and I'm responsible for some of it - how bears infest children's literature?. From Wordnik.com. [An Illustrated Visit to a Bear's Lair] Reference
These little vessels are practically the corsair type of Saracenic sailing-galley which used to infest the Barbary coast in days gone by. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
The second group of enemies include ants and other vermin which at times infest nests and nesting boxes, snakes, squirrels, mice and rats. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Houses Boys Can Build] Reference
The tiles, if well secured at the inlet and outlet of the drain, will entirely exclude rats and mice, which always infest stone drains to cellars. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
They're not very discriminating: They infest the homes of rich and poor alike, and contrary to common belief, they're not attracted to dirt or filth. From Wordnik.com. [Is that right? Beware bed bug remedies] Reference
Flies should likewise be carefully kept from it, which at this season of the year are hatched in millions, and infest an indigo plantation like a plague. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
Looters infest the streets of every major city, fires are set by vandals so frequently that most are left to burn, and gunfire is often heard day and night. From Wordnik.com. [War Without End] Reference
The whole population of the northern districts of Aheer had been raised against the expedition, joined by all the bandits and robbers who infest that region of the. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
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