Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
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Examples for "darning needle "
Examples for "darning needle "
1 Patty threw down her darning needle and clapped her hands with delight.
2 Why, I turned away three score of them with a darning needle .
3 Using kitchen string or unwaxed dental floss, thread a large darning needle .
4 Spinning wheel, loom, and darning needle were to lie idle that day.
5 He held up the slim, steel darning needle to the light.
1 One of my pets, after plying her mother with about forty questions, wound up with, Mother, how does the devil 's darning needle sleep?
1 She vaulted to her feet, pricking her finger on her sewing needle .
2 The twins might already have a sewing needle and disinfectant, but this was Italy.
3 They used to tattoo each other with a sewing needle dipped in black ink.
4 An imaginary sewing needle turned slowly in the wound, producing a cold flare of pain.
5 One of the women picked up a sewing needle and gripped it like a weapon.
1 Down South the colored people believe the dragon fly brings dead snakes to life, and they call it snake doctor .
2 They believed that the presence of dragonflies, which they called snake doctors , meant a serpent lay nearby.
3 Snake doctors , limber, long insects with bronze bodies and filmy wings, went back and forth like small living shuttles.
4 "I tell you what," observed Geary; "get some court-plaster at the snake doctor 's just above here."
1 For this reason it is sometimes called mosquito hawk .
Chess variant played on a 7×7 board.
Corsage piece designed by Philippe Wolfers.
1 We visited Avondale House in Wicklow and enjoyed the dragonfly nature reserve.
2 VandenBrooks said tracheal volume may be tied to prehistoric dragonfly body size.
3 The wings split like dragonfly gossamers, poised for increased maneuvering and power.
4 The thought came and went like a dragonfly skimming the river's surface.
5 An angry dragonfly shape passed overhead as the first Apache took aim.
6 Don't feel sad for me! Eventually, the dragonfly disappeared into the trees.
7 Wings like a dragonfly 's hung from his back like an iridescent cloak.
8 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Black net dragonfly masks struck a sharply surreal note.
9 The Nius, with their dragonfly family crest and their overshadowing power.
10 So he waits all day for his dragonfly - wife to come home.
11 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bavaria, Germany: a dragonfly covered in morning dew.
12 It was hard to breathe, and impossible to see: the dragonfly was dead.
13 Lyra looked up and held out her hand for the dragonfly .
14 A large dragonfly , whining towards him on iridescent wings, collided with his arm.
15 A nice pair of dragonfly earrings, a necklace, that would have been enough.
16 Kate reached down to brush a dragonfly away from her ankle.
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Dragonfly в диалектах
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