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hornet

Type of wasp.
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But the willow-wren sent down the hornet, with orders to settle beneath the fox's tail, and sting with all his might.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
Back it came, with the editor's regrets, and Martin sent it to San Francisco again, this time to THE HORNET, a pretentious monthly that had been fanned into a constellation of the first magnitude by the brilliant journalist who founded it.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
Imagine, if you can, a bald-faced hornet of your earthly experience grown to the size of a prize Hereford bull, and you will have some faint conception of the ferocious appearance and awesome formidability of the winged monster that bore down upon me.
Warlord of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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