Usage examples for maggot
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Eli always looked like a maggot. – Furze the Cruel by John Trevena
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This fruit is oval, with a large stone and little substance about it; pleasant enough in taste, but he says he never saw one of these plums ripe that had not a maggot or two in it. – History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney
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A few students of insect transformation have indeed supposed that the crawling caterpillar or maggot must be regarded as a larval stage which recalls the worm- like nature of the supposed far- off ancestors of insects generally. – The Life-Story of Insects by Geo. H. Carpenter