Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, having a round shape and a red or yellow spotted shell.
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Examples for "ladybug"
Examples for "ladybug"
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He reached over and plucked a ladybug off of my tote bag.
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She looked beautiful to me, wide-eyed and shiny, like a ladybug.
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For some reason, Madame Lefoux had never specified ladybug protective measures in its anthroscopy.
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They were obviously confused by the multiple ladybug dirigibles and their multiple Drifter companions.
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Molly was painting a scarlet rose with a yellow ladybug crawling up its stem.
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However, the ladybird disdained the insect, and flew away among the flowers.
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Something crept across Amrei's face; she brushed it off-itwas a ladybird.
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The youngest is she who will have a ladybird on her eyelid.
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She had as little spiritual pride as a ladybird or an ant.
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And Milica the ladybird trips her way down to us too.
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His aerial springs lustily to attention when he sees a lady Beetle.
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Lady beetles are congregating in a corner of a ceiling in this photo courtesy of University of Tennessee released to Reuters on November 6, 2013.
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All afternoon the flight continued, but by nightfall there wasn't a lady-bug in sight.
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Why not even the tiny, turtle-shaped, yellow-back'd, black-spotted lady-bug that has lit on the shirt-sleeve of the arm inditing this?
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Nearby two gingham sunbonnets bobbed up and down as their owners bent their heads to watch a speckled lady-bug crawl up a twig.
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When we reached the Soda Springs, we met the most remarkable migration of red lady-bugs that I ever saw.
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We may discover lady-bugs-small red or yellow and black beetles-amongour vines, and many persons, I fear, will destroy them with the rest.
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My bonnibell, my lady-bird, I have none but good tales to tell thee.
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Let us come into the town, lady-bird, and choose a doll.
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The lady-bird must just be passing through.
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Sorry to find the lady-bird flown.
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That handsome, perfumed lady-bird that used to come to see you....
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And, puffing the cigarette smoke at a lady-bird on the shining table, he plunged into a reverie about the house.
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Look thee, Mahound, though my mistress sent me to such a lady-bird as thou art, Master Oliver shall know on't.
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Like all insects the aphis has its special insect enemies, among which the lady-bird ("lady-cow" in Worcestershire) is the most important.
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But the ant has sense enough to keep the aphis for a supply of honey-dew instead of killing it as the lady-bird does.
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And they could not understand at all why no swift depredating graces nor any habit of long soft hooting belonged to that lady-bird.
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And they came running into the sitting room behind the store to show the lady-bird to Polly's father, who was there looking over his paper.
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Somehow, you've given me the impression she's just one of these lady-birds.
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These letters have been falling about like a shower of lady-birds.
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And now, my lady-birds, who else shall we invite to the house party?
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Eat, lady- bird,-nothinglike eating to kill time and banish care.
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Now the lady-birds are also fond of the aphides, and eat them up by hundreds.