单词 | blackbeetle |
例句 | “Is that any way to talk to your mother?” her other mother asked, with her mouth full of blackbeetles. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The bag was half filled with large shiny blackbeetles, crawling over each other in their efforts to get out of the bag. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z She popped another blackbeetle into her mouth and then another, like someone with a bag of chocolate-covered raisins. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z She folded the white paper bag carefully so no blackbeetles could escape, and she placed it back in the shopping bag. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z It will eat blackbeetles till it's sick, till it dies of surfeit. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z If a blackbeetle crawls across it it suffers a sort of paralysis. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z A blackbeetle ran quickly across the gaudy oilcloth, and Michael sitting in this scrofulous kitchen had a presentiment that Daisy was right. Sinister Street, vol. 2 They loosed blackbeetles in the middle of Greek Testament and pretended to be very much afraid while Mr. Caryll stamped upon them one by one, deriding their cowardice. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Have you no immortal soul, porter, that you crush other people's property as if it was blackbeetles? Miss Cayley's Adventures He had the appetite of one who has lived on greens and potatoes for ten years among the blackbeetles. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z After a fortnight of patient research he was rewarded by the discovery in his immediate neighbourhood of an abundance of blackbeetles, which he was unable to refer to any known species of Orthoptera. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 For one thing he was not accustomed to sleeping on the kitchen hearthrug, and the blackbeetles were too many and too cordial. The Magic World So they put blackbeetles—do you like blackbeetles, eh? The Giant's Robe When the clock stopped, or the tap of the "Samovar" went out of order, or there appeared in a house blackbeetles, or bugs, or other filthy creatures, it was always Moshe who was consulted. Jewish Children On the whole, I'd rather meet a ghost, than a rat, or a blackbeetle, or a burglar. Happy-Thought Hall His cabin is pitch dark, and full of blackbeetles. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 People buy them to keep indoors, as killers of blackbeetles, or perhaps they are turned out to destroy garden insects. Chatterbox, 1906 Nature must surely have intended them for blackbeetles, and accidentally given them wings. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands The blackbeetles, and bugs and other filthy things were not at all frightened of Moshe. Jewish Children Shouting would frighten a burglar, or a rat, but would have no effect on a blackbeetle, or a ghost. Happy-Thought Hall The blackbeetles were first, and had possession of underground London, but the cockroaches followed, disputed the right of territory, and thus the war began. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 Piggy is of a greedy nature, certainly, and if he has the range of a kitchen swarming with blackbeetles, he will feed on them until he makes himself ill. Chatterbox, 1906 He haunted the kitchen with the persistency of a blackbeetle, and became such a nuisance at last that Miss Hartley espoused his cause almost with enthusiasm. Salthaven Worst of all, I was victimised by the presence of a blackbeetle in a plate of clear soup served me at my club. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920 The diminishing scale, of what I would rather not meet in a narrow staircase at night, is, the burglar, rat, blackbeetle, ghost. Happy-Thought Hall It is to the death, and has been going on for years, the combatants being the red cockroach and the blackbeetle. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 Even blackbeetles, as she often told herself, were God's creatures, and Mr Ogilvie, although he had deserted her, no doubt had finer sensibilities than a blackbeetle. Austin and His Friends They roosted in the spruce firs, you understand, and 'twas as easy to slay them as blackbeetles, for Teddy's eyes, helped by the moon, marked 'em above his head quick enough. The Torch and Other Tales Those of us who have never felt this repulsion—at least, against spiders and blackbeetles—cannot but wonder how far it is natural. The Pleasures of Ignorance I thank them for the information, and tell them that there are blackbeetles in my kitchen, washing soda in my laundry, and coal in my cellar. Back to Methuselah It was only that he was down in the kitchen on his knees, and two blackbeetles ran over his legs. Fated to Be Free But, as usual, the children treated the loving little blackbeetles with coldness and disdain. The Phoenix and the Carpet An exploratory blackbeetle now and then was found immovable upon the stairs, or in an upper room, as wondering how he got there. Dombey and Son The nearest I have come to it is a feeling of disgust when I have seen a cat retrieving a blackbeetle just about to escape under a wall and making a dish of it. The Pleasures of Ignorance "The blackbeetles and I are old friends," he concluded cheerfully. Barlasch of the Guard Our room is very humble, full of blackbeetles! Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series It pointed a claw at the cupboard, where the blackbeetles lived. The Phoenix and the Carpet Fleas and lice are crushed without pity, blackbeetles with more hesitation, small birds are spared entirely, and so on upwards until for calves they have a special legislation to protect and cherish them. On Something In fact, if the most nimble-fingered watchmaker among you will come to my workshop, he may set me to put a watch together, and I will set him to dissect, say, a blackbeetle's nerves. Science & Education "There are no blackbeetles in the house, monsieur," said Desiree, hesitating to accept his proposal. Barlasch of the Guard You ought to go and lie on the kitchen oven and catch blackbeetles, not go after foxes! Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series They could not talk the whole thing over as they would have liked to do, because the Phoenix itself was in the cupboard, among the blackbeetles and the odd shoes and the broken chessmen. The Phoenix and the Carpet Cockroaches and blackbeetles don't talk and they don't listen at keyholes. My Strangest Case We’ve a country house as well as the Chalkpits! and though they praise their place for a little paradise, I dare say they’ve quite as many blackbeetles as we have, and more too. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures She is a thick-set, black-haired woman, and looks at me disapprovingly out of the corner of her eye as if I were a blackbeetle which she would like to squash under foot. Simon the Jester So we made more stuff and laid it round each night, and the blackbeetles from all about the parish swarmed to it. Novel Notes “He would squash Heemskirk like a blackbeetle all the same,” I remarked. 'Twixt Land and Sea Strange beetles—beetles from other families, with no claim on us whatever—got to hear about the thing, and came in hordes, and tried to rob our blackbeetles of it. Novel Notes She sent us a recipe on one occasion, through MacShaughnassy, for the extermination of blackbeetles. Novel Notes A numerous company of rats and mice, remarkably fond of physical exercise, had fitted the place up as a gymnasium for themselves; and our kitchen, after ten o’clock, was turned into a blackbeetles’ club. Novel Notes |
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