Death's-head

But if anybody was to eat the berries which follow the showy flowers of the potato, they would most likely be made ill, nor are the leaves wholesome to us, though they furnish food to the big caterpillar of the Death's-head moth.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

It was a small Death's-head, carved in ivory with extraordinary power and anatomical skill.

The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio 1900

And Bianca passed and was succeeded by others -- sometimes two at a time; but it was finally the little ivory Death's-head which had belonged to the Cardinal Immenraet, the funereal jewel dedicated to an unknown

The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio 1900

The Acherontia Atropos of the Sphinges -- what you call the ` Death's-head Moth '?

Dracula 1897

Strange how they ignored it, blinded themselves to it, thrust it, the grinning, threatening Death's-head, on one side.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

The story was a thrilling one, and when he related the final escape from all the dangers and horrors of the great Death's-head Dungeon with the fair but unconscious maiden in his arms, all exclaimed, "'Twas marvellous valiant!"

The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893

Indeed, among our larger larvæ, the only cases I can recall are the Lappets, which have two conspicuous blue bands, the Death's-head Moth, which has broad diagonal bands, and two of the Hawk-moths, which have two bright blue oval patches on the third segment.

A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

The peculiar hues of the Death's-head caterpillar, which feeds on the potato, unite so beautifully the brown of the earth, the yellow and green of the leaves, and the blue of the flowers, that, in spite of its size, it can scarcely be perceived unless the eye be focussed exactly upon it.

A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

Scimitars flashed at them, arrows struck upon their mail and the shields blazoned with the Death's-head D'Arcy crest.

The Brethren Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Death's-head was on his shield, and in his hand shone a naked sword.

The Brethren Henry Rider Haggard 1890