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Значения термина lady-bird на английском

Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, having a round shape and a red or yellow spotted shell.

Использование термина lady-bird на английском
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My bonnibell, my lady-bird, I have none but good tales to tell thee.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 09
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Let us come into the town, lady-bird, and choose a doll.
What Will He Do with It? — Complete
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The lady-bird must just be passing through.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
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Sorry to find the lady-bird flown.
Quin
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That handsome, perfumed lady-bird that used to come to see you....
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
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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.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
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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.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
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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.
Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
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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.
The Nursery, Number 164 / A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Reader...
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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.
The Patrician
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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.
Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird
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Somehow, you've given me the impression she's just one of these lady-birds.
The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
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These letters have been falling about like a shower of lady-birds.
Bleak House
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And now, my lady-birds, who else shall we invite to the house party?
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School / The Merry Doings of ...
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Eat, lady- bird,-nothinglike eating to kill time and banish care.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 09
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Now the lady-birds are also fond of the aphides, and eat them up by hundreds.
The Nursery, Number 164 / A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Reader...
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