Shakespeare says something about worms, or it may be giants or beetles, turning if you tread on them too severely.
The Worm did nothing except fall off his pony, and knock chips out of gate-posts with his trap.
They were now very happy; their home was done, the four blue eggs lay in the soft nest, and the little wife sat still and patient on them, while the husband sang, and told her charming tales, and brought her sweet berries and little worms.
It is a great sacrifice for you lightloving Fairies to dwell through the long winter in the dark, cold earth, watching over the flowerroots, to keep them free from the little grubs and worms that seek to harm them.
"Just imagine such a monster anywhere in this country, and at once we could get a sort of idea of the '
worms,' which possibly did frequent the great morasses which spread round the mouths of many of the great European rivers."
"I WILL get some
worms and go fishing and catch a dish of minnows for my dinner," said Mr.
Worms of the riper grave unhid By any kindly coffin lid, Obscene and shameless to the light, Seethe in insatiate appetite, Through putrid offal; while above The hissing blow-fly seeks his love, Whose offspring, supping where they supt, Consume corruption twice corrupt.
His connection with Madame Karenina, by creating so much sensation and attracting general attention, had given him a fresh distinction which soothed his gnawing
worm of ambition for a while, but a week before that
worm had been roused up again with fresh force.
Having made up his mind to this, he behaved so well that everyone was astonished, never having suspected so much manliness in the quiet
Worm.
And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, And the angels,all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror
Worm.
She came to this house to entreat my husband's interference, and before I could be aware of it, everything that you could wish to be concealed was known to him, and unluckily she had
wormed out of Mainwaring's servant that he had visited you every day since your being in town, and had just watched him to your door herself!
Under an assumed name I have
wormed myself into its service for revenge; and as there is a heaven above us, I will have its heart's blood!"