...d up to her nostrils. She listened to termites munching the fallen trunk, a beetle scrabbling in the crevices. Seen from the corner of her eye, it r... ...htShout listened to leaves crumpling beneath his son's jacket, watched as a beetle scurried away from the red shock of hair fallen about FeatherFly'...

...imilar lot was before your last directions was given. The last, before the cat got them, was a very nice, stocky chick, but these are Growing like thi... ...y are. Plymouth Rocks won’t be in it. Had a scare last night thinking that cat was at them, and when I looked out at the window could have sworn I see... ... pecking about hun- gry when I went out, but could not see anything of the cat. So gave them a peck of corn, and fastened up safe. Shall be glad to kn... ... when they came to look at them they found they were the larger bones of a cat picked very clean and dry. III III III III III “That’s no chick,” said ... ... cabbage indeed something was stirring, but it might just as probably be a cat stalking birds. She watched this for a time. She went a few paces past ... ...life, and under the green skin of the rush stems the larvae of a big Water Beetle were struggling out of their egg cases. I doubt if the reader knows ... ...gling out of their egg cases. I doubt if the reader knows the larva of the beetle called (I know not why) Dytiscus. It is a jointed, queer-looking thi... ...er brother or so as an aid to a vegetarian di- etary, when nip! one of the Beetle larva had its curved blood- sucking prongs gripping into his heart, ...

...from all things we see; And often, to our comfort, shall we find The sharded beetle in a safer hold Than is the full wing’d eagle. O, this life Is nob...

...ing on the deserted prospect before him; and now and then a rakish-looking cat runs stealthily across the road and descends his own area with as much ... ...he addition of divers ink-stains, bore a marvellous resemblance to a black beetle trodden upon. One thing, however, was perfectly clear to the perplex...

...aid Father Wolf, showing all his white teeth. “Faugh! Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!... ...nd the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear. “Pah! Singed jungle cat—go now! But remember when next I come to the Council Rock, as a man sho... ...er under water opened his eyes slowly and stretched. Then he jumped like a cat, for he saw huge things nosing about in the shoal water and brows- ing ... ...Rikki-tikki did the real fighting. He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his ha...

...f him, in the mirror, than if he had been an unseen spider on the wall, or beetle on the floor, or rather, than if he had been the one or other, seen ... ... particular, Carker hardly seemed to breathe, his sidelong scrutiny was so cat-like and vigilant, but the eye of his great chief passed from that, as ... ...u see,’ he continued with a smile, and softly laying his velvet hand, as a cat might have laid its sheathed claws, on Mr Dombey’ s arm; ‘if I perfectl... ...atching of his chief, or with his cleanness, neatness, sleek- ness, or any cat-like quality he possessed. It was not so much that there was a change i... ...reasons. ‘But you were going,’ said the Manager, with the snarl of a tiger-cat, ‘to recite some Christian precept, I observed.’ ‘Nay , James,’ returne...

... that famous cow with the crumpled horn who tossed the dog who worried the cat who killed the rat who ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow w... ...ime. She knew them in crowds passing to and from their nests, like ants or beetles. But she knew from her reading infinitely more of the ways of toili... ...iron road dividing Coketown from the country house, she yet maintained her cat like observation of Louisa, through her husband, through her brother, t... ...re of many colours, green predominating; prickly things were in her shoes; cat erpillars slung themselves, in hammocks of their own mak ing, from va...

...ike the frogs, others from slime, as the worms, others from donkeys, as the beetles, others from cabbage, as caterpillars, others from fruit, as the... ...nimals. For example, myrrh appears very agreeable to men and intolerable to beetles and bees. Oil also, which is useful to men, destroys wasps and be...