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'By the way, what was the secret history, this morning, of that little incident of the cockroach? He glanced up quickly. 'Cockroach? I know not what you say. 'Well, was it beetle, then? 'Beetle! He seemed, all at once, to have lost his voice, the word was gasped.
His wife shook her head. "Five feet four and about thirty round the chest, and wants to marry my daughter!" said the sergeant-major, with a sneer. "Eh? What's that? What did you say? What?" "I said that's a pretty good size for a cockroach," murmured Mr. Farrer, defiantly. "Besides, size isn't everything. If it was, you'd be a general instead of only a sergeant-major."
Paul Marchal, "Observations sur l'Ammophila affinis," Arch. de Zool. exp. et génér., ii. Série, t. x., 1892. Similar cases in which the specific instinct is less powerful and individual initiative greater. Here is, for instance, the case of the Chlorion, where each animal possesses more considerable initiative. It attacks the Cockroach.
Therefore he bade Germania fill all her vales and mountains with the dying agonies of this almost invisible earwig, and let the impure blood of this cockroach redden the Rhine down to the sea. *Prof. Harnack's Reproach*.
"That's what would happen to me, I expect." Then he added, "That's what will happen to my father." "Good cockroach," said Urquhart, looking ahead of him. "You think she won't want him to go." Lancelot snorted. "Won't want him! Why, she doesn't already. And he'll do what she wants, I'll bet you." "Does he always?" "He always does now. It's the air, I fancy."
He found the Boy standing at one end of the kitchen, clutching a vegetable dish, and gazing with a set expression of absolute horror at some object quite at the other end. The Tenor strained his own eyes in the same direction, but could not at first make anything out. At last, however, he distinguished a shining black thing moving, which proved to be a small cockroach.
"She's probably haunted by cockroach wraiths." "He'll have a chance to see," said Trendon. "Captain's going to put him in charge." "By way of apology, then," said Barnett. "That's pretty square." "Captain Parkinson wishes to see you in his cabin, Mr. Edwards," said an orderly, coming in. "A pleasant voyage, Captain Billy," said Ives. "Sing out if the goblins git yer."
Her daughter and concept of the world at large had been mauled by the hungers of the night so of course she was not alive -just a hollow ambulatory thing like the swift moving cockroach.
Then we notice two ladies who rejoice in the mellifluous names of "Bald-head" and "Cockroach," and who are both worthy representatives from Keith's Alley. These, with a small sprinkling of ebony lasses and their attendant cavaliers, make up the very respectable assemblage.
He sprang at the nearest, pouncing to crush it to the floor under his paws. But the thing did what he had never known a cockroach to do. It arose in the air strong-flighted as a bird. And as if at a signal, all the multitude of cockroaches took wings of flight and filled the room with their flutterings and circlings.
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