jungle-life

Through the air, on wings of skin or feathers or tissue membrane; crawling or leaping by night; burrowing underground; gnawing up through the great supporting posts; swarming up the bamboos and along the pliant curving stems to drop quietly on the shingled roof; -- thus had the jungle-life come past Hope's unseeing eyes and found the bungalow worthy residence.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

It is a vast expanse of arid, yellow sand, broken at intervals by foul swamps, with a jungle-life growth of unwholesome vegetation, and teeming With venomous snakes, and all manner of hideous crawling thing.

Andersonville — Volume 1 John McElroy 1887

It is a vast expanse of arid, yellow sand, broken at intervals by foul swamps, with a jungle-life growth of unwholesome vegetation, and teeming With venomous snakes, and all manner of hideous crawling thing.

Andersonville John McElroy 1887

A tzetze-fly (_Glossina morsitans_) was captured in Effuenta House, curiously deserting its usual habit of jungle-life in preference to a home on clear ground: its dagger-like proboscis, in the grooved sheath with a ganglion of muscles at the base, assimilated it to the dreaded and ferocious cattle-scourge which extends from Zanzibar to the Tanganyika Lake and from Kilwa (Quiloa) to the Transvaal.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

An occasional holiday to Axim should be allowed, in order to correct the monotony of jungle-life.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855