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Meanings of black beetle in English

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Usage of black beetle in English
1
There was not a rat or a black beetle in the place.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1
2
With a black beetle and a microscope he was happy for the day.
Kate Coventry: An Autobiography
3
This maggot is the grub of a large black beetle.
Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor
4
A little black beetle of a thing just barely crawling.
Empire Builders
5
The smaller one regarded him with eyes as hard as a black beetle's carapace.
Carte Blanche
6
I met a black beetle on the back-stairs, which was horrid, but I went on.
Mary's Meadow, and Other Tales of Fields and Flowers
7
It was a large black beetle with formidable jaws- a"pinchbug, "hecalled it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
8
The huge black beetle flails six long legs and tries to crawl off Drood's hand.
Drood: a novel
9
The skinny fellow cocked one walleye, half a black beetle pinched in his fingers, chewing.
Blood and Bone
10
These very tiny things are so small, they hardly look bigger than a large black beetle.
In the Forest; Or, Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Woods of ...
11
As I replaced the last foot bone, a tiny black beetle crawled from under a vertebra.
Death du Jour
12
On to this severed trunk the Pasteur leapt, again as he had done upon the black beetle.
Love Eternal
13
And he looked at "The Coming of Summer" as if it were a black beetle.
Death at the Excelsior, and Other Stories
14
A black beetle crawled out of his teacup, and he quickly scarfed it down before anyone noticed.
Samurai
15
He sees a big black beetle opening up its body and enclosing Sture under its shiny wings.
The eye of the leopard
16
Atop the near pillow a glossy black beetle as large as a teacup clicked and shifted its mandibles.
All souls' rising
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United Kingdom
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