black-beetles

You ought to aim at the top, where the cliches are being perpetuated, not down among the black-beetles.

Archive 2008-07-01 Karen Burnham 2008

You ought to aim at the top, where the cliches are being perpetuated, not down among the black-beetles.

The Issue at Hand, William Atheling, Jr. Karen Burnham 2008

As I sat at the table I felt something stir near my feet, and, looking down, saw a wave of black things moving slowly across the floor; they were black-beetles.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

The confinement, the crowd of little objects, the black-beetles by night, the bluebottles by day, the lingering odours of mutton, the perpetual presence on the sideboard of bananas — all this, together with the proximity of several men and women, heavily dressed and not often or indeed completely washed, wrought on his temper and strained his nerves.

Flush: a biography 2004

The sensation with which Soames dropped the letter was similar to that he would have had entering his bedroom and finding it full of black-beetles.

To Let 2004

I squash black-beetles at night with my slipper; they squelch when you tread on them.

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

I thought of the black-beetles, the old boxes, the worm-eaten bureau.

Villette 2003

At three o'clock, with the assistance of our glasses, we discovered sixteen Norwegians, and their invariable companions, as many dogs, leading and tormenting four rein-deer down the mountains; and for two hours, along the narrow road of descent, we watched the whole troop enlarging from the indistinctness of black-beetles to the symmetry and size of men and animals.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

Presently, however, as she played it, she perceived a smell of black-beetles, and instantly she was back in that disused kitchen of Miss Deeble's, listening to the practising overhead.

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

Deeble sent her down to the empty kitchen in the afternoon, she could not blow black-beetles with any enthusiasm, and began to look about for something else to interest her.

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand