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How delightful is the lazy drone of the great steely-blue dor-beetle, as he rambles along in the twilight of a summer night!
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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_bul-horn_, the shell-snail; _dumble-dory_, the black-beetle (but this may be a corruption of the dor-beetle).
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861
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