Silent-letter pest

Usage examples of gnat.

Ford Prefect brought it careering down among the gantries and landing lights at Han Dold spaceport, where it settled like a gigantic, startled and very noisy gnat.

In the evenings, when mist enveloped the huge construction project, the builders would withdraw into their barracks, close the windows and light smoky fires of damp twigs outside the doors to drive away the swarms of mosquitoes and gnats which filled the air with a sinister, high-pitched buzzing.

Lean, pallid students have found themselves plump and blooming, and it has happened that one whose hair was straight as gnat of an Indian has been startled to behold himself in his mirror with a fringe of hyacinthine curls about his rejuvenated countenance.

Sarka Kaul led them over desolate trails until they reached the shadowed forests, where winged lizards fluttered about, hunting for moths and gnats in the canopy.

Every Underground BBS is surrounded by a gnat cloud of wannabes who spend their lives trying to squirrel together enough hacker kudos to be included on the board, and they rarely succeed.

The cows were moiling and bawling and the dust rose in the cold air and hung above the corrals and chutes like brown clouds of gnats swimming in schools above the cold ground.

It felt almost as if they were gnats inside a giant old-fashioned computer box, with the floor a great motherboard covered with winding lines and square-chunked chips.

After thy text nor after thy rubrich I will not work as muchel as a gnat.

She was standing in front of a pointillist rendition of a human head formed by a cloud of gengineered gnats.

The calypter is small and inconspicuous and the mesonotal suture incomplete, which is common in eye gnats, pomace or vinegar flies, but the wings are silent in flight.

The Ulk Bog went right at the monster, a bothersome gnat waiting to be crushed.

The only support for my intel- lect was my deep-seated certainty that one of the effects of the psychotropic smoking mixture was to induce me to hallucinate the size of the gnat.

In the grasses, in the trees, deep in the calix of punka flower and magnolia bloom, the gnats, the caterpillars, the beetles, all the microscopic, multitudinous life of the daytime drowsed and dozed.

As I approached, the ground grew quaggy beneath my shoes and a swarm of gnats flew into my face and hovered.

Turning farther starward, she winced at the idiot din from the planet of the gnats.