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It is not that I have not still some remnants of gayety; but what would seem such in anybody else is melancholy for a Languedocian.

From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis

The band sallies forth and returns with not a single Cricket, but numbers of Ephippigers, for which I asked the day before yesterday and which I no longer need, my Languedocian Sphex being dead.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

I was in those days busy with the poison of the Languedocian scorpion and its action upon insects.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

I have already told how I found it impossible to rear the Two-banded Scolia on Oryctes-larvae, fastened down to deprive them of movement, or even on Ephippigers, paralysed by the Languedocian Sphex.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Now may some Languedocian Wordsworth turn the sonnet into patois: "Mountains and vales and floods, heard YE that whistle?"

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew