Ordish

Often Ordish himself seems to be plugging away with the ants 'grim industriousness; at the same time the convention of this series of centering on one individual, presumably for something like human interest, seems especially artificial in the case of ants, of whom it's often said that the colony functions as the animal and the individuals merely as cells.

Short Reviews Editors, The 1978

But as Ordish sensibly remarks, whether you regard the ant or the nest as the animal is unimportant, being only a question of the meaning you attach to the word.

Short Reviews Editors, The 1978

To get back to Labora, as Ordish does in a disarming surprise ending, the killing of the original queen by invading robber ants triggers her own ovaries to develop and produce eggs; thus Labora saves the colony from extinction and assumes the throne herself like any worthy fairy-tale heroine.

Short Reviews Editors, The 1978

In the Ordish system a certain number of intermediate points in the span are supported by oblique chains, on which girders rest.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

Thus it fell out that Sir Gregory came and went at his own discretion as concerned Lord Berners 'fief of Ordish, all through those gusty times of warfare between Sire Edward and Queen Ysabeau, until at last the Queen had conquered.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

About dawn one of the Queen's attendants roused Sir Gregory Darrell and presently conducted him into the hedged garden of Ordish, where Ysabeau walked in tranquil converse with Lord Berners.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

As his widow will I ride with you to Ordish, upon condition you disclose to none at Ordish, saving only, if you will, this quite immaculate Rosamund, even a hint of our merry carnival.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

So to Ordish in that twilight came the Countess of Farrington, with a retinue of twenty men-at-arms, and her brother Sir Gregory Darrell.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

"So at peril of your life you rode for Ordish, then, messire?"

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

Yet listen: I, too, must ride with you to Ordish -- as your sister, say -- Gregory, did I not hang last April the husband of your sister?

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918