1 The first thing the beetle did was to take him by the finger.
2 A natural fillip followed, the beetle went floundering into the aisle and lit on its back, and the hurt finger went into the boy's mouth.
3 The beetle lay there working its helpless legs, unable to turn over.
4 Other people uninterested in the sermon found relief in the beetle, and they eyed it too.
5 He spied the beetle; the drooping tail lifted and wagged.
6 There was a sharp yelp, a flirt of the poodle's head, and the beetle fell a couple of yards away, and lit on its back once more.
7 There in that hollow of the sun-baked field were congregated the grasshopper, the ant, and the beetle, rolling pebbles of sun-baked earth through the glistening stubble.
8 Every beetle finds its own food.
9 He was pinned like a beetle on a card.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 10 On a peach-coloured divan sat Lady Narborough, pretending to listen to the duke's description of the last Brazilian beetle that he had added to his collection.
11 In danger the porcupine bristles up, the beetle feigns death, the old guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 12 Countless beetles and insects of various sorts burrowed in the dry wood.
13 She knew them in crowds passing to and from their nests, like ants or beetles.
14 Then, I looked round and saw the disturbed beetles and spiders running away over the floor, and the servants coming in with breathless cries at the door.
15 Bonnie, who had watched from the window impatiently all afternoon, anxious to display a mangled collection of beetles and roaches to her father, had finally been put to bed by Lou, amid wails and protests.