larves

Ces silos en ferrociment tant impermables 1'air, l'air qui y est contenu est rapidement priv de son oxygne par la respiration des grains, et les insectes qui s'y trouvent (oeufs, larves, chrysalides ou adultes), ainsi que tous autres organismes vivants qui pourraient y tre introduits avec le grain vent dtruits.

Chapter 13 1973

Montaigne goes on to argue that even when we cannot get an explanation -- and any explanation is more probable than magic -- it is safe to disbelieve: "Fear sometimes representeth strange apparitions to the vulgar sort, as ghosts ... larves, hobgoblins, Robbin-good-fellows and such other bugbears and chimaeras."

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

Elles n'apportent pas aux larves de la ruche les fleurs des champs qui renferment leur avenir et leur vie.

Pélléas and Mélisande Maurice Maeterlinck 1905

Les larves mourraient sous ces fleurs sans se douter de rien.

Pélléas and Mélisande Maurice Maeterlinck 1905

He expatiates at large on the opinions of the ancient philosophers about larves, or nocturnal phantoms, the spirits of the wicked, which wandered like exiles about the earth; and about those spiritual beings which abode in the air, but descended occasionally to earth, and mingled among mortals, acting as agents between them and the gods.

Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Washington Irving 1821

Perhaps a faft fo feafonably (larves The latent feeds of woe, which rooted once Might eoft you lal) our.

Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ... 1791