blackbeetle

An exploratory blackbeetle now and then was found immovable upon the stairs, or in an upper room, as wondering how he got there.

Dombey and Son 2007

It is to the death, and has been going on for years, the combatants being the red cockroach and the blackbeetle.

The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

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

'You'll' ave to wait till that little blackbeetle in the office 'as gorn.'

The Substitute Deep Waters, Part 9. 1903

'You'll' ave to wait till that little blackbeetle in the office 'as gorn.'

Deep Waters, the Entire Collection 1903

He haunted the kitchen with the persistency of a blackbeetle, and became such a nuisance at last that Miss Hartley espoused his cause almost with enthusiasm.

Salthaven 1903

Later on in life I was the victim of a cruel hoax, carried out with triumphant ingenuity by a confirmed practical joker, who with the aid of a thread caused what appeared to be a gigantic blackbeetle to perform strange and unholy evolutions in my sitting-room.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920 Various 1898

Worst of all, I was victimised by the presence of a blackbeetle in a plate of clear soup served me at my club.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920 Various 1898

She resembled an enormous and aquatic blackbeetle, surprised by the light, overwhelmed by the sunshine, trying to escape with ineffectual effort into the distant gloom of the land.

The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897

She is a thick-set, black-haired woman, and looks at me disapprovingly out of the corner of her eye as if I were a blackbeetle which she would like to squash under foot.

Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896