 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 552 pages
...discovered by the assailant, and caresses succeeded to blows. Though all was fury and carnage in the space between the two nests, on the other side the paths...returning home with the prisoners they had taken*, a See Huber, chap. v. which it is to be feared are the devoted victims of a cannibal feast. Having,... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1823 - 556 pages
...discovered by the assailant, and caresses succeeded to blows. Though all was fury and carnage in the space between the two nests, on the other side the paths...compatriots, or returning home with the prisoners they had takena, which it is to be feared are the devoted victims of a cannibal feast. Having, I apprehend,... | |
 | William Rhind - National history - 1830 - 376 pages
...and fro on the ordinary business of the society as in a time of peace. All around the ant-hill was order and tranquillity, except that, on the quarter leading to the field of battle, crowds were seen, either marching to re-enforce the army, or returning home with the prisoners they had taken.... | |
 | William Swainson - Animal behavior - 1840 - 394 pages
...discovered by the assailant, and caresses succeeded to blows. Though all was fury and carnage in the space between the two nests, on the other side the paths...which, it is to be feared, are the devoted victims to a cannibal feast." * (328.) The wars of ants belonging to different species, according to M. Huber,... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1841 - 504 pages
...ordinary business of the society as in times of peace, and the whole formicary exhibited an nppearance of order and tranquillity, except that on the quarter...which, it is to be feared, are the devoted victims to a cannibal feast." We might extend our views to the systems of emigration and colonisation adopted... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1843 - 452 pages
...discovered by the assailant, and caresses succeeded to blows. Though all was fury and carnage in the space between the two nests, on the other side the paths...compatriots, or returning home with the prisoners they had taken1, which it is to be feared are the devoted victims of a cannibal feast. Having, I apprehend,... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1846 - 642 pages
...society, as in a time of peace ; and the whole formicary exhibited an appearance of order and tranquility, except that on the quarter leading to the field of...compatriots, or returning home with the prisoners they had taken1, which it is to be feared are the devoted victims of a cannibal feast. Having, I apprehend,... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Beneficial insects - 1828 - 546 pages
...the paths were full of ants going to and fro on the ordinary business of the society, as in a tune of peace ; and the whole formicary exhibited an appearance...or returning home with the prisoners they had taken a, which it is to be feared are the devoted victims of a cannibal feast. Having, I apprehend, satiated... | |
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... and if by mistake one was attacked, it was immediately discovered by the assailant, and caresses succeeded to blows. Though all was fury and carnage in the space between the two nests, on the other side the paths were full of ants going to and fro... 