Beetles
[biːt(ə)lz]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing them on your person, denotes poverty and small ills. To kill them is good.
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Examples
- I thought of the black-beetles, the old boxes, the worm-eaten bureau. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I can't let you off, you know, because I have some beetles to show you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I wish you had been poked into cells and black holes, and run over by rats and spiders and beetles. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Why, I'd as soon have a spit put through me, and be stuck upon a card in a collection of beetles, as lead the life I have been leading here. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And Gunto, summoned, says that Tana is lazy and will not bring him nuts and beetles, or scratch his back for him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- She knew them in crowds passing to and from their nests, like ants or beetles. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He would have various grubs and insects, the large larv? of beetles and various caterpillars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We see the same rule in the distribution of butterflies and beetles. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But black-beetles--ugh! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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