Larva, whim or obsession

Usage examples of maggot.

Nicholson mentions a case of ulceration and abscess of the nostrils and face from which maggots were discharged.

In many areas they have become one of the most effective, as well as safest, ways to take care of pest problems like cutworms, armyworms, root maggots, borers, Wireworms and cabbage white caterpillars.

They were held by the wax and exuded byssus of the home-grubs, colossal maggoting larvae that the khepri used to reshape their dwellings.

She was the only one who saw the gigantesque beauty of the park, in one season its storm-clouds of mauve jacaranda, in another the violent flamboyants flashing bloodily under the sun, or the tulip-trees and bauhinias that in their time shimmered, their supporting skeletons of trunk and branches entirely swarmed over, become shapes composed of petals alive with bees as a corpse come alive with maggots.

And then the thunder godling was lost to sight and sound under a mass of the dead that writhed like a pile of maggots.

From the Tyras waters Maggot could hook just about any kind of fish I had ever heard of, and, even more easily, could scoop up with an improvised net whole batches of the little white lavarets or silver bleaks or the still smaller gobies, all of which made delicious eating.

For sport, Corwick Mools threw a handful of maggots high into the air and the swiftest rooks caught them on the wing.

What if, on an August evening, I am on the river with Rosie Pierpoint and I suddenly see, not the red of her lips nor the pink of her thighs, but the white of the maggots in her bones?

New Home for Ebb Tide, False Dawn in Aztlan and a Chain of Bull Maggots on the Neck of the Fat Spic from Riverbank.

As the dirt spilled down on either side, maggots swarmed out of the earth, a writhing mass of them that scattered to safety and vanished back into the disturbed earth.

After that I fell deeply asleep and dreamed of pale-faced men like maggots and gorgeously-clad women in silk dresses that rose behind them like glittering wings, living in a carcase and battening on its rich rotting meat.

Savi out of sweet clay for His son to bite and eat, add honeycomb and pods, chewing her neck until froth rises bladdery, quick, quick, till maggots scamper through my brain.

According to those maggots in Rome and in Londinium, Terra and Firma commit treason by refusing to bankrupt themselves throwing good money after bad.

It resembled a giant mastiff with black-crusted fangs and a shimmering coat of maggots.

I daresay Maggot also had dined to repletion, but he companionably and voraciously continued to eat for as long as I did, perhaps because this may have been the first time he had ever been allowed to eat at a table indoors.