silk-worms

Men are not like beavers, or bees, or silk-worms; they have no sure and infallible instinct which procures for them necessaries.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Ichinono is a nice, industrious hamlet, given up, like all others, to rearing silk-worms, and the pure white and sulphur yellow cocoons are drying on mats in the sun everywhere.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

The mercury was only 70 degrees, and the wind north, so it was an especially pleasant journey, though I had to go three and a half ri beyond Tendo, a town of 5000 people, where I had intended to halt, because the only inns at Tendo which were not kashitsukeya were so occupied with silk-worms that they could not receive me.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

The useful arts practised at Nice, are these, gardening and agriculture, with their consequences, the making of wine, oil, and cordage; the rearing of silk-worms, with the subsequent management and manufacture of that production; and the fishing, which I have already described.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

The rest of the house is given up to the rearing of silk-worms.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

It is not many years since the Nissards learned the culture of silk-worms, of their neighbours the Piedmontese; and hitherto the progress they have made is not very considerable: the whole county of Nice produces about one hundred and thirty-three bales of three hundred pounds each, amounting in value to four hundred thousand livres.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

“I know what silk-worms feel like now,” said Bobbie to herself.

The Railway Children Edith 2003

“I know what silk-worms feel like now,” said Bobbie to herself.

The Railway Children Edith 2003

It has, I believe, been proved that spiders, were it not for their quarrelsome disposition which irritates them to attack and destroy each other, might be employed more profitably than silk-worms.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

And I am sure many times too that I slept without knowing it—but I never slept knowing it, and on this night I listened to the silk-worms.

The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953