We felt the prod of
gregarious instinct, the drawing together as though for united action, the impulse toward cooperation.
Rio de Janeiro -- Excursion north of Cape Frio -- Great Evaporation -- Slavery -- Botofogo Bay -- Terrestrial Planariae -- Clouds on the Corcovado -- Heavy Rain -- Musical Frogs -- Phosphorescent Insects -- Elater, springing powers of -- Blue Haze -- Noise made by a Butterfly -- Entomology -- Ants -- Wasp killing a Spider -- Parasitical Spider -- Artifices of an Epeira --
Gregarious Spider -- Spider with an unsymmetrical Web.
But he knew, further, that the comfort of the fire would be his, the protection of the gods, the companionship of the dogs--the last, a companionship of enmity, but none the less a companionship and satisfying to his
gregarious needs.
There is little doubt that troubles are exceedingly
gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks, are apt to perch capriciously; crowding on the heads of some poor wights until there is not an inch of room left on their unlucky crowns, and taking no more notice of others who offer as good resting-places for the soles of their feet, than if they had no existence.
Young lady, I am disposed to be
gregarious and communicative to-night."
But he was
gregarious, and since the sole social expression of the Yukon was the saloon, he expressed himself that way.
Well, at least you are better than that herd of swine in Vienna, whose
gregarious grunt is, however, not more offensive than the isolated effort of the British hog." He glared at me as the present representative of the beast.
Because we are
gregarious we live in society, and society holds together by means of force, force of arms (that is the policeman) and force of public opinion
Dimensions (by estimation)--Greatest length, eleven feet; height, six feet; head, erect; nostrils, expansive; eyes, expressive and fierce; teeth, serrated and abundant; tail, horizontal, waving, and slightly feline; feet, large and hairy; talons, long, curvated, dangerous; ears, inconspicuous; horns, elongated, diverging, and formidable; colour, plumbeous-ashy, with fiery spots; voice, sonorous, martial, and appalling; habits,
gregarious, carnivorous, fierce, and fearless.
Anyone could pick him at once as
gregarious in his habits and communicative in his nature, with a quick wit and a ready smile.
It was so that the
gregarious animals had overcome the predaceous; it was so, in human history, that the people had mastered the kings.
They both looked to the right and to the left into most of the shops they passed, had a wary eye for all
gregarious assemblages of people, and turned out of their road to avoid any very excited group of talkers.