wasps

• Scientists recommend the catching of queen wasps, and also butterflies, but I regard this as a case where science is not strictly practical.” —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• Draconian arrows flew around him like wasps, and seemed to have as little effect, although he did appear mildly annoyed when one stuck into a pouch he happened to have his hand in at the moment. —  Dragons of Autumn Twilight
• The manual lists the dangers from the night leopards, from giant cats, from the stun lizards, even from a kind of tortoise Lorn has never seen, and from vulcrows and the circular nests of giant paper wasps-wasps as long as a man's index finger. —  The Magi'i Of Cyador
• It felt as though she was covered with wasps, and they were all stinging her at once. —  Temple of the Winds
• Stung by wits, wasps, all rights of rank forego, —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland

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