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Updated: May 22, 2025
But all that gold and jewels, colours blue, green, yellow, violet and varied stuffs woollen, linen, muslin, and silk could do for dress was done by every typical woman of means; and every device for improving the complexion, the teeth, the hair, the height, and the figure which, by the way, never sought the wasplike waist was fully exploited. We need not go too closely into details.
Gnats hung in little, whirling nebulæ; mosquitoes, wasplike flies, and whirring, shard-winged beetles, passed and repassed each other in intricate lines of flight; and, here and there, lucently flashing on long, transparent, veined wings, darted the dragon-flies in their gemlike mail.
Luna recognised him by the full pantaloons and the wasplike waist, which made the Tato declare that this particular cadet wore stays it was Juanito the cardinal's nephew. He often walked in the cloister, hoping for an opportunity to talk with Leocadia, the beautiful daughter of the Virgin's sacristan.
We were being showered with lead by now, and between the wasplike things speeding overhead and their "sput-sput" as they hit the logs, I dared expose no more than my eyes and forehead while emptying rifle after rifle. In the fleeting movement of handing one down and taking the other I saw Doloria sitting near my feet, with several opened boxes of cartridges on the ground beside her.
These latter were slender, almost wasplike insects with lacy wings and long, thread-like legs, that whirled and danced with the mad joyousness of life, the mass of swirling creatures seemingly spinning a net of sheerest gossamer that curtained the interior from the prying eyes of the wrens and ant birds hopping inquisitively through the crevices of the windfall.
Flora's vibrant, little, wasplike mother whose nose was so sharp and red that it made me think of Paul's ferret she bustled and buzzed about, doing most of the work. Looking out from our back window, I could see Flora lolling, and I would read or write a little and then the unrest would become too strong and I would go down to her. Soon two potato knives would be working.
In a few minutes it had come off the port bows of the giant air-liner, no more than half a mile distant. Now the watchers saw it, slipping through some tenuous higher cloud-banks that had begun to gather, a lean, swift, wasplike speedster: one of the Air Control Board's the A.C.B.'s most rapid aerial police planes.
Scarcely had he started when he heard that wasplike whizzing close to him once, twice, and then a sharp metallic sound as a bullet hit some part of his machine. He looked back to see if the wire carriers were following, but there was not a sign of any of them except his companion who carried the apparatus, and just as Tom looked this man twirled around like a top, staggered, and fell.
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