ant-heap

The perfect culmination of instinct we find in the ant-heap and the beehive.

The Other Animals 2010

It was Swan who built the four barns, using ant-heap clay and Kimberley brick.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

At last she had gone a long way and had no sight of water south of the isle, nor had she seen any hill, nay, not so much as an ant-heap, whence she might look further around; and it seemed to her that she might go on for ever, and reach the heart of Nowhither at last.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

It was Swan who built the four barns, using ant-heap clay and Kimberley brick.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

I was thinking of nothing but making a home, family life for myself ... and so tripped over an ant-heap — and plop, down into the grave ....

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

He does not think so when he is hungry, but he thinks so again as soon as he is fed; and on the hypothesis of a successful ant-heap, he would never go hungry.

Lay Morals 2005

And in the stall-fed life of the successful ant-heap — with its regular meals, regular duties, regular pleasures, an even course of life, and fear excluded — the vicissitudes, delights, and havens of today will seem of epic breadth.

Lay Morals 2005

A tendency so stupid and so selfish is like to prove invincible; and if Socialism be at all a practicable rule of life, there is every chance that our grand-children will see the day and taste the pleasures of existence in something far liker an ant-heap than any previous human polity.

Lay Morals 2005

If it go on to such heights as we hear proposed and lauded, if it come actually to its ideal of the ant-heap, ruled with iron justice, the number of new contraventions will be out of all proportion multiplied.

Lay Morals 2005

In all this I have supposed the ant-heap to be financially sound.

Lay Morals 2005