Stings
[stɪŋ]
Examples
- I have health, wealth, and youth; but I feel the stings of the rod all the same. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Again he thought, how during this long month, he had avoided Perdita, flying from her as from the stings of his own conscience. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Ah me, I fear the sharpness of their stings. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- These insects were as large as partridges: I took out their stings, found them an inch and a half long, and as sharp as needles. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- You will remember that in the oligarchy were found two classes--rogues and paupers, whom we compared to drones with and without stings. Plato. The Republic.
- Their victims attempt to resist; they are driven mad by the stings of the drones, and so become downright oligarchs in self-defence. Plato. The Republic.
- His praises were so many adder's stings infixed in my vulnerable breast. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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