lady-bird

Consider the noble fly, a size or two smaller than the elephant: the lady-bird, the butterfly — all triumphs of art!

A Christmas Tree 2007

I saw several lady-bird larvae the other day, but I don't know the species.

An ugly lady on the sidewalk AYDIN 2007

Consider the noble fly, a size or two smaller than the elephant: the lady-bird, the butterfly — all triumphs of art!

A Christmas Tree 2007

And, puffing the cigarette smoke at a lady-bird on the shining table, he plunged into a reverie about the house.

The Man of Property 2004

“Nothing, lady-bird!” answered Dame Suddlechop; “and do you use to send for your friends out of bed at this hour for nothing?”

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

"As long as Ish is going to be entertaining Joshua's lady-bird, we might as well send for breakfast after all."

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

"As long as Ish is going to be entertaining Joshua's lady-bird, we might as well send for breakfast after all."

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

_ -- Your correspondents, although both kind and learned, do not appear to have given any satisfactory answer to my former query -- why a lady-bird is called

Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 Various

Lady-bird beetles destroy large numbers of plant-lice, and the Asiatic lady-bird has been found to be the natural destroyer of the

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

First of all the lady-bird was placed in the palm of the left hand, or right; I do not think it made any difference which hand was used, and the person who held it addressed it as follows: --

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen