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- noun Alternative spelling of
ladybug .
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Examples
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I have a hoop decorated with lady-bug stickers, which is really cute.
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A crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep.
Les Miserables 2008
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When she needs a high note she goes after it like a hen after a lady-bug.
You Should Worry Says John Henry Hugh McHugh
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He started to go ashore too and as everyone had bundles and baggage, he picked up a small hand bag, an umbrella, a can and a cage filled with butterflies, grasshoppers and a lady-bug.
Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories Howard B. Famous
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The description I got of the bug was not very good but most sounded like a large lady-bug.
salsa verde de bug 1919
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She turned her head to watch a lady-bug industriously ascend one side of a blade of grass, and with equal enterprise immediately descend the other side.
The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918
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If that lady-bug is alive five minutes from now, I win?
From the Car Behind James Montgomery Flagg 1903
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But now I see it; it returns: it is the impression of colour in the senses, left from the night that lady-bug Mathilde flashed out on the Heights!
The Seats of the Mighty, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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But now I see it; it returns: it is the impression of colour in the senses, left from the night that lady-bug Mathilde flashed out on the Heights!
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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But now I see it; it returns: it is the impression of colour in the senses, left from the night that lady-bug Mathilde flashed out on the Heights!
The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897
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