little black ant
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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 Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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 Louis Wisa
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 Frank Richard Stockton
At this most critical of all crises in the destiny of the little black ant, the fickle Fortune of the Wild was seized with another whim.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Pretty soon Mary found a swift little black ant.
From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
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