I even had dreams of sphex and kodiac bears fights to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: The Good Old Stuff edited by Gardner Dozois] Reference

The music seemed to fascinate him, to paralyse his will, even as the sphex paralyses its victim with its sting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

Lieutenant Hutton has described a sphex with similar habits in India, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, vol. i, p. 555. 19.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

I think one way for you to think about what ID needs to do is to think of a way to decide if something has flexible (human-like) or non-flexible (sphex-wasp-like) intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny and a Book] Reference

Cricket victim of paralyzing instinct of sphex, 172.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference

Fig. 3, are seen the holes by which the young sphex escapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

The habits of the sphex surprise while bull fights disgust us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth and Egolatry] Reference

The 6th and 7th cells were open at the point, the young sphex having escaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

The 6th and 7th qells were open at the point, the young sphex having escaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

The sphex Pennsylvania differs exceedingly from the coe - rulea in the construction of his cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

Aerocool V12 1000w haha ... i ish poor man .. mamba is gift and can only afford sphex as mousepad T. T.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.hardwarezone.com.sg] Reference

This sphex, is by far the most common of the two species: the antennae are pointed and stand up when he is at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

Lieut. Hutton has described a sphex with similar habits in India, in the “Journal of the Asiatic Society, ” vol.i. p. 555.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter II] Reference

But the sphex coerulea, having formed a long tube, crams into it as many spiders as he judges suffi - cient, and encloses them, together with an egg, by a cross partition of clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

As I had always found the number of spiders in each cell unequal, but apparently regulated by their size, I opened a range of cells of the sphex Pennsylvanica, and having weigh - ing the contents I found the result as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

A sphex may be seen to make holes in the ground, placing stupified insects in them with her eggs; another species watches when she goes off to get more insects, and every now and then goes in too to lay her eggs, I suppose without any labour: there does not appear to be any enmity between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference

In the inside of houses, nothing furnishes both these species of sphex with a more convenient situation for their cells than the backs of picture frames; for they are fond of building in places which have a very moderate degree of light, and the back of a picture frame lianging against the wall has also the advantage of furnishing two sides of the cell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

F. F.bre, M. on parasitic sphex, 218.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

Yellow-winged sphex, paralyzing instinct in, 172.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference

The other sphex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

The other sphex,, No. II.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

Fabre, M., on parasitic sphex, 218.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the origin of species] Reference