What is "pest"

Usage examples of "pest".

He had drunk the best part of a bottle of arrack, had woken in the night with gripes in the belly, and then slept unevenly until dawn when someone had scratched at his door and Torrance had shouted at, the pest to go away, after which he had at last fallen into a deeper sleep.

I made a real pest out of myself back on the beach the other day and you were nice to let me off the hook with all those bicoastal excuses.

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.

At any rate, there was no sluglike pest hanging from its belly, though Jameson thought he detected an old cicatrix where a tiny bloodsucking head might once have been embedded.

Botschaft, dass die Natur laengst unsrer muede worden, Die dort mit Fluessen Feuers schreckt, Das paradiesische Gefilde ueberdeckt, Und dort, geschaeftig im Ermorden, Der aufgebotnen Pest Die giftgen Schwingen schuetteln laesst.

They insist on making pests of themselves by visiting raids on Gyer, while my people retaliate in kind, regardless of my efforts to stop them.

And the baronet proceeded to eulogize his own good-nature, by which it is just necessary to remark that one miscreant had been saved for a few years from transportation, in order to rob and murder ad libitum, and, having fulfilled the office of a common pest, to suffer on the gallows at last.

Clarendon and his new home near old Goat Hill, sketches of his career and manifold honours, and popular accounts of his salient scientific discoveries were all presented in the principal California dailies, till the public soon felt a sort of reflected pride in the man whose studies of pyemia in India, of the pest in China, and of every sort of kindred disorder elsewhere would soon enrich the world of medicine with an antitoxin of revolutionary importance - a basic antitoxin combating the whole febrile principle at its very source, and ensuring the ultimate conquest and extirpation of fever in all its diverse forms.

In a Pest tearoom near the quai, the Allamvedelmi Hatosag, the Hungarian secret police, had handed him on to the local KGB rezidentura, which had provided him with an Australian passport and had put him aboard an Aeroflot flight bound for Moscow.

In the public culture of the stars the salamandrian pest was completely ignored.

By diversifying your crops, you make it harder for the pests to find the vegies of their choice, and if they do find one plant, they might still find it hard to get onto the next one.

On Ftiday nights he was emitted from the household like a wandering cat, headed for a tavern and, later, the Hotel Delaney over on Western Avenue, only a little better than a flop, with its old woolen carpets wom to the backing over the stairs, and the naphtha scent of some chemical agent used to control the infestation of pests.

Draka agronomy and biology are excellent, and continual research is done by the League and the Institutes on the development of improved strains of plant and animal, and on pest control.

A dozen autograph pests were poking pencils and books toward Balza, but she quieted them with her most seductive smile and approached the microphone.

Rhoslyn had been planning to suggest that Aurelia bespell Tolliver, thinking it would serve that pest Elizabeth right to have one of her servants kill another.