mosquito-nets

She cooked a dish of beans and opened some canned fruit, and they took their meal, thrusting it beneath the shielding mosquito-nets which seldom left their heads.

Colorado Jim George Goodchild

The mosquito-nets cut off a good deal of air, and people are tempted to discard them unwisely when the nights are intensely hot.

India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin

Only a sheltered candle on the wash-hand stand cast a dim shadow toward the three little white beds under their mosquito-nets.

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

The good-natured young man hurried away, and Philip, taking his place, flooded her with a final stream of advice and injunctions -- where to stop, how to learn Italian, when to use mosquito-nets, what pictures to look at.

Where Angels Fear to Tread 1924

I knew a man who used to keep tarantulas under his mosquito-nets so that they might devour any stray mosquitoes that got in.

Peeps At Many Lands: Australia Frank Fox 1917

By midnight the wind fell, dense swarms of mosquitoes came aboard, and, as our mosquito-nets were not well up (thanks partly to our own improvidence, and partly to the violence of the wind, for we were sleeping on deck because of the great heat), we lived in torment until morning.

X. Bird Reserves at the Mouth of the Mississippi 1916

Beside it stood the simple camp of the stockman -- a litter of pack-bags, mosquito-nets, and swags; here and there were scattered the even more simple camps of the black boys; and in the background, the cumbrous camp of the Chinese drovers reared itself up in strong contrast to the camps of the bushfolk -- two fully equipped tents for the drovers themselves and a simpler one for their black boys.

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

There was no sign of rain; and as bushmen only pitch tent when a deluge is expected, our camp was very simple: just camp sleeping mosquito-nets, with calico tops and cheese net for curtains -- hanging by cords between stout stakes driven into the ground.

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

The sand-flies crawled through the meshes in the mosquito-nets, and forbade them to sleep; if in their sleep a knee touched the net the mosquitoes fell on it so that it looked as if riddled by birdshot; and the nights were a torment, although they had done well in their work, collecting some two hundred and fifty specimens of birds and mammals.

II. Up the Paraguay 1914

In the late afternoon the piums were rather bad at this camp, but we had gloves and head-nets, and were not bothered; and although there were some mosquitoes we slept well under our mosquito-nets.

VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land 1914