brief-lifed

Updated: July 6, 2025

But is it not the common belief that the spacious compartment and the special food work the transformation of what otherwise would have been a brief-lifed toiler to an insect of majestic proportions, regal adornment and imperial instinct, whose wants are anticipated and who has no duty to perform save that of increasing and multiplying her faithful subjects?

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber