wood-louse

Touch a wood-louse on an excursion across your sheet of paper, and the creature shams death; and in something the same way my acquaintance would stop short in the middle of a sentence, while a cart went by, to save the strain to his voice.

Gobseck 2007

Touch a wood-louse on an excursion across your sheet of paper, and the creature shams death; and in something the same way my acquaintance would stop short in the middle of a sentence, while a cart went by, to save the strain to his voice.

Gobseck 2007

After living in the Comte (La Franche Comte) like a wood-louse in the crack of a wainscot, he had married the heiress of the celebrated house of Rupt.

Albert Savarus 2007

After living in the Comte (La Franche Comte) like a wood-louse in the crack of a wainscot, he had married the heiress of the celebrated house of Rupt.

Albert Savarus 2007

Many such creatures, rolled up just as the wood-louse curls itself, in tight balls, have been found in a fossil state; and there is a little petrified crustacean with wonderful eyes, which has been found in the slate quarries of South Wales.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

One of the crusty creatures you know well enough, and you can find it without going to the seaside, I mean the wood-louse, which I used to hear called a "carpenter" when I was a child.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

Finally they came across the wood-louse, whom they found mentioned in the letter as "maid-servant."

Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

Onisciform: shaped like a wood-louse, Oniscus sp.; applied to certain

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

My master had rolled himself up between two bales of goods to wait the event, but was discovered by a Turcoman of great size, and of a most ferocious aspect, who, taking him at first for part of the baggage, turned him over on his back, when (as we see a wood-louse do) he opened out at full length, and expressed all his fears by the most abject entreaties.

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier

Another variety of shrimp resembles the common wood-louse found under pieces of bark, but is most beautifully iridescent, glowing like an opal at the bottom of the pool.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919