silk-worm

The silk-worm is an animal of such acute and delicate sensations, that too much care cannot be taken to keep its habitation clean, and to refresh it from time to time with pure air.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

In the beginning of April, when the mulberry-leaves, begin to put forth, the eggs or grains that produce the silk-worm, are hatched.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

As is well known, it is obtained from the cocoon of the silk-worm.

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

Those were the days of the _Morus multicaulis_ mania, and I embarked with spirit in the silk-worm business.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

And when we have done our work on earth -- of necessity, of labor, of love, or of duty -- like the silk-worm that spins its little cocoon and dies, we too depart.

How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon

These high lands naturally produce mulberry-trees, the leaves of which are very grateful to the silk-worm.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

In the first place, the work about these three plants does not come on till after the worms have spun their silk: in the second place, {176} the feeding and cleaning the silk-worm requires no great degree of strength; and thus the care employed about them interrupts no other sort of work, either as to time, or as to the persons employed therein.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

But to return to Kingfisher, who has been all this time softening some silk-worm gut in his mouth, and now says in a thick voice, "Do you know, colonel, I lost my chance of a wife once in this way?"

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

The Tobacco-worm is a caterpillar of the size and figure of a silk-worm.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

The tobacco-caterpillar is of the shape of a silk-worm, has

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz