muskeeters

Whereupon he remarks, 'I don't figger I was calculated for runnin' a cattle ranch, 'sells out an' goes back to herdin 'muskeeters in New Jersey.

Rimrock Trail 1906

"The muskeeters will eat you, more likely," says I. "Look at your face and hands; they are all covered with 'em."

Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900

"Oh!" says he, with a ghastly smile, pretending to joke, "I have got plenty to eat here -- I can eat muskeeters."

Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900

And I ain't surprised at it neither, considerin 'the bushels of smoke as I've swallered from that fire ashore, and the thousands of muskeeters as has flied down my throat; so that's all right.

For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886

And I wondered to myself that they should ever try to pass laws and resolutions as small as muskeeters and nats.

Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881

And I sez to myself, it can't be the fault of the place anyway; the law-makers have a chance for their souls to soar if they want to, here is room and to spare to pass laws big as elephants and camels, and I wondered that they should ever try to pass laws as small as muskeeters and nats.

Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

Here I've sot, and sot, and sot, a-bust'n muskeeters and wonderin 'what was ailin' ye.

Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

Here I've sot, and sot, and sot, a-bust'n muskeeters and wonderin 'what was ailin' ye.

Roughing It, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872

Here I've sot, and sot, and sot, a-bust'n muskeeters and wonderin 'what was ailin' ye.

Roughing It 1871

But Cortes hastily formed his muskeeters and crossbowmen, and poured such a lively, well directed fire into the enemy's ranks, as threw him into disorder, and compelled him to recoil.

History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes 1843