"Mantis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the little deal stand where I had set the candle, and there stood one of the quaint, evil-looking insects that infest the island, a praying Mantis. Raised up against the candle, with its fore-legs in the attitude of supplication that gives it the name, its long green body relieved on the white stearin, it was eyeing Jackson, with its head turned first on one side and then on the other, in the most elvish and preternatural ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various |
