little black ant
Americannoun
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The little black ant is especially bold and warlike.
From Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Cable, George Washington
He jumped over two stones, three sticks, a little black ant and also a big one, a hump of dirt, two flies and a grain of sand.
From Bully and Bawly No-Tail by Wisa, Louis
Dr. Ebrard, who wrote a book about ants and their habits, tells a story of a little black ant who was building an arch at the foundation of a new ant-hill.
From Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Stockton, Frank Richard
The mosquitoes, and a little black ant, were very annoying during the warm but slightly dewy night.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig
On the extreme of the slope she stopped, and her red, jewelled cluster of eyes glared fiercely down upon the little black ant.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
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