cockchafer

1 Grown older, she would take cockchafers and beetles, and spit them on pins.

2 These grubs are 29 mischievous indeed,––after remaining for some time in the grub state, they change into cockchafers, and even then they are by no means agreeable visitors.

3 What, my little gold cockchafer! don't you know then that goats have divided hoofs?

4 Neither the cockchafer, nor the toad, nor the earth-worm, whom they questioned about it, would give them the least information; for none of their relations had ever been cooked or served on a silver dish.

5 But Tiberius drew his lip and bared his teeth at them and called them pea-hens and cockchafers.

6 The moths and the cockchafers and the dragon-flies fluttered about the taper and paid him no heed.

7 Oh, how frightened Thumbelina felt when the cockchafer flew with her to the tree!

8 The humming of the screws overhead dropped an octave and a half, back through wasp and hornet to bumble bee, to cockchafer, to stag- beetle.

9 During the course of the next few minutes no less than six separate and distinct caterpillars, besides a small black beetle or cockchafer of a most repellent aspect, fell down my back.

10 It is as if a spider would catch a cockchafer in its web.

11 The seal cries in the reeds like the voice of a weeping child, and the cockchafer buzzes on the white wall of the hut.

12 The sun has already set, the street is cheerful and merry, the cockchafers whizz and, flying, hit him on the nose, the ear, the forehead.

13 It is just as if you were to hold the pin on which a living cockchafer is impaled in a candle, and make it red-hot.'

14 After a time, all the cockchafers turned up their feelers, and said, "She has only two legs! how ugly that looks."

15 Before the queen had recovered from her surprise, cockchafers, redbreasts, mouse and children had all flown, singing, to the window, and disappeared from view.

16 Sometimes he seems entirely Canadian; at other moments the complete Scot with every R burring like a cockchafer on a window-pane.

17 Though the cockchafer’s quite a fierce bug, The good news is it’s not in your rug.

18 Presently a large cockchafer flew by;

这时有一只很大的金龟子飞来了。

19 May evenings, the scent of the lilac, the hum of the cockchafers, the warm, still air—how new and extraordinary it all is, though spring comes every year!

20 If so, he would at any rate be able to deliver the cockchafer speech.

若是那样, 他无论如何也要把那一番骂人的话发泄出来.

1 金龟科

scarab goliath beetle Hercules beetle

2 金龟子

chafer tumblebug goldbeetle tumbledung May-bug tumbler goldbug dor tumble bug