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Significados de cockchafer em inglês

Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult.

Uso de cockchafer em inglês
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Did you ever see an orthodox doctor produce a cockchafer like that?
Tell England / A Study in a Generation
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A cockchafer came droning over the hedge and past us.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
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Rowsley threw a daisy at a cockchafer and missed it.
Nightfall
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Still the cockchafer kept on humming, and the lark soared higher in its rapturous song.
Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
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A cockchafer whirred past her and buried itself in a tuft of grass hard by.
The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
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There have been several photographs of the seasonal cockchafer beetle (Maybug).
The Irish Times
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But something like a cockchafer flew past his face.
At the Back of the North Wind
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You'd better behave pretty, Master Vetch, or 'twill be worse for you, my young cockchafer.
Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Times of Benbow
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Left with nothing to say, Dixon realized how wild a notion the cockchafer speech had been.
Lucky Jim
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The cockchafer was charmed with the little maiden.
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories / The Young Folks Treasu...
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Albine clapped her hands, and said that he looked like a cockchafer fastened by a string.
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
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His mental operations, indeed, were at first as inconceivable to me as a crab's or a cockchafer's.
Certain Personal Matters
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The nightingales burst into song, a cockchafer knocked against him and crept up the back of his neck.
Father Sergius
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Just as they were in the very middle of it, a big cockchafer flew into Valiant Vicky's face.
Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India
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Suddenly a great cockchafer buzzed along.
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories / The Young Folks Treasu...
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Therefore, hold aloof, while I deliver judgment, or I will pin thee to the wall like a cockchafer.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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