blackbeetles

Jem raised his hand, and his witchlight flared into life, frightening a group of blackbeetles.

Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

But, the blackbeetles took no notice of the agitation, and groped about the hearth in a ponderous elderly way, as if they were short-sighted and hard of hearing, and not on terms with one another.

Bakery PSA Jen 2009

Mice and blackbeetles and cook-maids had played Old Harry with some cantatas and a vast great Passion according to St Mark, in High Dutch; but lower down all was well, and I brought away several pieces, 'cello for you, fiddle for me, and some for both together.

Did You Know Bach Had a Father? Victoria Janssen 2009

Mice and blackbeetles and cook-maids had played Old Harry with some cantatas and a vast great Passion according to St Mark, in High Dutch; but lower down all was well, and I brought away several pieces, 'cello for you, fiddle for me, and some for both together.

Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

Columbus sailed the Atlantic, the first steam engines tottered into motion, the British squares stood firm under the French guns at Waterloo, the one-eyed scoundrels of the nineteenth century praised God and filled their pockets; and this is where it all led — to labyrinthine slums and dark back kitchens with sickly, ageing people creeping round and round them like blackbeetles.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

It was not only the dirt, the smells, and the vile food, but the feeling of stagnant meaningless decay, of having got down into some subterranean place where people go creeping round and round, just like blackbeetles, in an endless muddle of slovened jobs and mean grievances.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

One can well believe the rumour that blackbeetles swarmed over the tripe in the cellar.

Revisiting Orwell's Wigan Pier 1997

Nature must surely have intended them for blackbeetles, and accidentally given them wings.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

Even blackbeetles, as she often told herself, were God's creatures, and Mr Ogilvie, although he had deserted her, no doubt had finer sensibilities than a blackbeetle.

Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

This person used to try experiments with food, such as cooking spiders, blackbeetles, rats, cats, mice, and other things not in common use; and, it is said, was wont to play off tricks upon unsuspecting strangers by placing banquets before them that were quite unexpected and unprecedented in the nature and condition of the food.

Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian