What is "skeeters"

Usage examples of "skeeters".

Hannah got sick and fidgety all by herself, fighting skeeters and panthers for a year with no man to help her haul her crops, and that old breed Charlie Tommie trying to take advantage.

So I moved my family to an island off the river mouth, where that sea wind kept them skeeters back into the bushes.

Folks is always carrying on about how lonely it must be for womenfolk in them awful islands, rain and mud and nothing but skeeters and sand flies to keep you company.

I am close by but inside, keeping away from him, I can hear him muttering at the skeeters through the screen.

Key, out on the Gulf, a lot less skeeters with that sea wind and very handy to fresh water, but some way they never got around to it.

But the water in the trough was greenish, and swarms of skeeters hovered around the main fountain.

Alvin examined the water closer, and as he expected, it was all aswarm with tiny animals and plants and the eggs of skeeters and other kinds of insects.

Meanwhile, the skeeters, engorged with her blood, spread out over the swamp.

They cursed any citizens of Barcy as interfered with anyone from that house, so those wandering children was best left alonelessen you wanted your soup to always boil over, or a plague of flies or skeeters, or some sickness to fall upon you, or your cow to die, or your house to sink into the ground as happened from time to time.

Unlike the skeeters, he easily found the snakes and, not so easily, awoke them and sent them slithering away.

The birds overhead, the insects crawling in and on the earth, the flies and skeeters, they were all part of the music.