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Meanings of cockchafer in inglés
Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.
Usage of cockchafer in inglés
1
Did you ever see an orthodox doctor produce a cockchafer like that?
2
A cockchafer came droning over the hedge and past us.
3
Rowsley threw a daisy at a cockchafer and missed it.
4
Still the cockchafer kept on humming, and the lark soared higher in its rapturous song.
5
A cockchafer whirred past her and buried itself in a tuft of grass hard by.
6
There have been several photographs of the seasonal cockchafer beetle (Maybug).
7
But something like a cockchafer flew past his face.
8
You'd better behave pretty, Master Vetch, or 'twill be worse for you, my young cockchafer.
9
Left with nothing to say, Dixon realized how wild a notion the cockchafer speech had been.
10
The cockchafer was charmed with the little maiden.
11
Albine clapped her hands, and said that he looked like a cockchafer fastened by a string.
12
His mental operations, indeed, were at first as inconceivable to me as a crab's or a cockchafer's.
13
The nightingales burst into song, a cockchafer knocked against him and crept up the back of his neck.
14
Just as they were in the very middle of it, a big cockchafer flew into Valiant Vicky's face.
15
Suddenly a great cockchafer buzzed along.
16
Therefore, hold aloof, while I deliver judgment, or I will pin thee to the wall like a cockchafer.
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