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  • "I had started writing a book called Pismire's Salvation," he said, forgoing his soup and reaching for my fries.

    Chuck Barris Beats the Gong 2001

  • But to pass by the mighty Elephant, which the Earth breeds and nourisheth, and descend to the least of creatures, how doth the earth afford us a doctrinal example in the little Pismire, who in the summer provides and lays up her winter provision, and teaches man to do the like!

    The Complete Angler Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683 1760

  • But to pass by the mighty Elephant, which the Earth breeds and nourisheth, and descend to the least of creatures, how doth the earth afford us a doctrinal example in the little Pismire, who in the summer provides and lays up her winter provision, and teaches man to do the like!

    The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653

  • [Illustration] _Diligence_, 1. loveth labours, avoideth _Sloth_, is always at work, like the _Pismire_, 2.

    The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631

  • Pismire because she’s a Chicagoan and I love me some polite Mid-westernerners No, please!

    La Coquette: 2005

  • Pismire because she’s a Chicagoan and I love me some polite Mid-westernerners No, please!

    Music in My "Kitchen" 2005

  • Florida St.eam, ran through the Turks’ Island passage, made St. Domingo and Cuba, passed over the Pismire shoal of the N.E. end of Jamaica, and anchored at Port Royal.

    A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

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