Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers.
See more 1 A light dawned upon the intellect of that pismire .
2 The humblest of creatures has its uses-'eventhe little pismire , ' you know, as Isaak Walton tells us.
3 The humblest of creatures has its uses-'eventhe little pismire , ' you know, as Izaak Walton tells us.
4 At first he said he was a pismire , but the Speaker said pismire was not parliamentary, and he modified it to grasshopper.
5 I've got a thousand-legged worm at the head of a pismire flush, and it serves us right, for a lot of slovens.
6 We are like the pismires destroyed by the plough; whose destruction prevents not the future crop.
7 Were I Leviathan, whose bones were long ago picked clean by pismires , I could perform nothing.
8 He abandoned it in disgust, declaring that it had been "nibbled to death by pismires . "
9 We might as well apply the same code to the fierce Malay who runs amuck and to McAllister's fashionable pismires .
10 They didn't come down from thrones in heaven like falling stars; they crawled up from holes in the earth like vicious little pismires .
11 Were I Leviathan, whose bones were long ago picked clean by pismires , I could perform nothing against the will of many human pismires .
12 "I might as well move to lay the bill on the table and to write as its epitaph-'nibbledto death by pismires ! ' "
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