I merely made use of thecockroach simile because it occurred to me as I traversed the Italian quarter and gazed upon its denizens, an occasional accidental rub against one of whom made me shudder.
In the vicinity of Mulberry Bend I was shown a house in which another bloody deed had recently been perpetrated--another cockroach killed.
It is to the death, and has been going on for years, the combatants being the red cockroach and the blackbeetle.
A large cockroach scuttling about her cabin did not tend to calm her nerves.
When the head of a weta, grasshopper, or cockroach is removed from the body and boiled for a few minutes in a 10 per cent.
For this purpose a weta, grasshopper, or cockroach may be taken as a type.
We'd be glad enough to buy these and let the cockroach pies alone," said Charley, accepting another and enjoying the fun, for half the fellows were watching the scene from over the way.
And Miss Hetty made up her mind at that moment to devote some of her time and skill to rescuing those blessed boys from the unprincipled Peck and his cockroach pies.
The duv iz a homemade kritter; they are as effeckshionate as a cockroach iz.
The cockroachis born on the fust ov May and the fust ov November semiannually, and is reddy for use in fifteen days from date.
The patridge lays 14 eggs, and iz az sure tew hatch all her eggs out az a cockroach iz who feels well.
But I never knew a cockroach egg fail tew put in an appearance.
The cockroach is ov tew colours, sorrel and black.
I hav writ the biography ov all theze kritters, from the genial muskeeter and pensiv cockroach klean up tew the elephant, with hiz trunk, and the lion, who hain't got enny trunk at all.
I dont doubt if he could hav hiz own way for six years, evry personal cockroach would be knocked off from the bosom ov the footstool, and not even a pair ov them left to repair damages with.
He saw the cockroach approach the bag, feel it, and turn it about in all directions.
Hummel placed under a bell-glass a female cockroach and a perfect egg-pouch, which had only just been abandoned by another female.
One pupa sometimes eats the skin cast off by another pupa, but a Cockroach has never been known to attack another with a view to eating him afterwards.
The Cockroach is very fond also of the blacking on boots, and devours leather and all.
The common cockroach is of a bright brown colour, with long antennae, and wings exceeding the body in length.
The avidity with which fowls seek such food gives rise to the negro proverb, "Dat time cockroach hab dance, he no ax fowl for to come.
The drummer-cockroach is of a dingy ash colour; it receives its name from the drumming noise it makes by striking, it is said, its horny head against any wooden substance it may come near.
The eggs of the cockroach are about one-third the size of their bodies; they are rather flat and long, and are covered with a hard shell of a brown colour.
Lived a cockroach in the world Such was his condition, In a glass he chanced to fall Full of fly-perdition.
Your splendid halls might belong to the noblest in the land, but the cockroach will not complain.
Finally, the cockroach began to fly; then, for a while, he had matters his own way.
The moment worn-out nature reasserted itself in me, and I dozed again, that ghoul of a cockroach came back and proceeded with its fell banquet.
My cockroach came out to wave his derisive hands at me.
The cockroach stood in thought, waving his hands interrogatively, as one who talks to himself nervously.
When he got to his feet and warily stalked toward it, the cockroach scuttled away with a slight rustling noise and disappeared into a crack.
Jerry only awakened when a huge three-inch cockroach nibbled at the sensitive and hairless skin between his toes.
But the thing did what he had never known a cockroach to do.
I remember me well, bein' under the same roof at the time on Florida, when a big tomcat chased a cockroach into the papers.
Opening his eyes, prepared for any hostile invasion from the unknown, he fell to watching a largecockroach crawling down the wall.
He awoke kicking the offended foot, and gazed at the cockroach that did not scuttle, but that walked dignifiedly away.
The cockroach stood up on the hindmost pair of his six legs, and seemed to put his head on one side and motion with his front legs at Mr. Gooley.
And he scooped thecockroach into his hand with a sudden sweep and flung it out of the window.
The cockroach walked meditatively up and down the footboard, as if thinking it over very seriously.
The cockroach on the foot of the bed also seemed to be listening to see if Mrs. Hinkley had anything more to say, and suspending judgment.
Mr. Gooley wondered painfully, for it was a pain even to wonder about anything, why this cockroach should remind him of somebody who was somehow connected with a knife, and not unpleasantly connected with a knife.
And Old Cockroach Hammil from his perch also made signs of inquiry.
It was that confounded cockroach there, reminding him of Old Man Hammil, that had done it.
The cockroach on the footboard wiped his front set of feet across his face sympathetically.
Mrs. Hinkley paused, but neither Mr. Gooley nor thecockroach had anything to contribute to the conversation.
The cockroach had crawled to the head of the bed and seemed to wish to partake of his thoughts.
The cockroach slyly withdrew himself from the ceiling, came down the wall, and crawled to the foot of the bed again.
Again he saw Old Man Hammil in his dingy brown clothes, looking at him, with his head on one side, as this cockroach was doing.
This cockroach is not established in Texas, and the specimen may have been misidentified (Gurney, personal communication, 1958).
Kittoe had observed in Antigua that ants which nested in the roofs would seize a cockroach by the legs so it could not move, kill it, and carry it up to their nest.
Bridwell noted that one wasp larva ate two cockroach nymphs before pupating; the adult emerged about 4 months after cocoon formation.
The wasp first seizes a cockroach by the edge of its thorax and stings it in the thoracic region, then seizes the cockroach by an antenna and pulls and leads it to the nest.
Ischnoptera rufa rufa, Puerto Rico (Wolcott, 1950): A dead specimen of this cockroach was found stuck to a leaf and covered with this fungus.
If a hole is eaten in one side of the capsule, the cockroach may devour the eggs and leave a portion of the ootheca.
Sundevall (1831) found only one larva per cockroach except one host which, when crushed, yielded five.
The cockroach as an experimental vector of the virus of spontaneous mouse encephalomyelitis (Theiler).
The bacterium digested cellulose rapidly in vitro and these workers believe that this cockroach and other related wood-feeding species are dependent on symbiotic bacteria for the digestion of their food.
The cockroach was in a stupefied state, and its antennae were bitten off to about half their length.
Very well, scream and run if you want to; the cockroach won't care.
See, the upper wings are different; the cockroach does not fly with them, he merely uses them to cover up the under wings, and we call them wing covers.
Illustration] If you dislike to touch the cockroach so much, perhaps you will look at this picture of a croton bug.
I don't know anybody who thinks a cockroach pretty.
The female of this species of cockroach has no wings at all, only little hints of wings, as it were.
These cases remain attached to the abdomen of the female cockroach until the eggs are all laid.
Now, do look again at thiscockroach I have taken such pains to catch for you and put into the tumbler.
Our cockroach is drawing one of its antennæ through its mouth?
After all, the cockroach is a knowing little fellow.
Besides, there is a large American cockroach that belongs to tropical America, but that has found its way pretty well over the country.
The residue of the teacup was carefully examined, nothing was found there, but on examining the tea-pot a dead cockroach was discovered.
So it was concluded that this infusion of cockroach did the gentleman a world of good.
He then said the Indian cockroach is used in cases of asthma and he knew several cases had been cured with it.
The Indian cockroach is used not in cases of dropsy but in cases of Asthma, a most obstinate disease to deal with.
The Giant Cockroach (Blaberus giganteus) is one of these.
The cockroach is never silly enough to approach the door of the hen-house.
Cockroach is never in the right where the fowl is concerned"--(lit.
I go for a little walk, and when I come back this--this infernal cockroach has got its arm round my daughter's waist.
I don't say anything," he remarked; "but even a cockroach does a bit of thinking sometimes.
There is a cockroach that makes his home on our desk that has got more sense than a delinquent subscriber.
If a man comes in to pay money, the cockroach looks glad, a smile plays around his mouth, and he acts kitteny.
But when the paper is out, and there is a look of cheerfulness about the place, and we are anxious to have friends call, the cockroach flies around over the papers and welcomes each caller as pleasantly as he can, and seems to enjoy it.
When a handsome lady comes in, the cockroach is in his element, and there is a good deal of proud flesh about him.
We don't know how he does it, but when a man has a bill the cockroach begins to look solemn and mournful, and puts his hands to his eyes as though weeping.
The cockroach walked through the violet ink and got his feet all covered, and then he walked all over that book, and left his mark.
Since that day he looks at us a little suspicious, and when the paste smells a little peculiar he goes and gets another cockroach to eat some of it first, and he watches the effect.
The cockroach came out to breakfast, and we never saw a person that seemed to enjoy the meal any more than the cockroach did.
The Cockroach is characterised by Huxley as one of the aEurooeoldest, least modified, and in many ways most instructive forms of insects;aEuro and both he and Rolleston take its anatomy as typical of that of the class.
On the other hand, the recent discovery of a cockroach and two species of Scorpion in the Silurian, proves the existence of land animals as well as plants at this period.
And now a rumor comes to us that the cockroach carries cancer.
Later she returns to help her cockroach babies out of their shells.
Housewives may be surprised to learn that a cockroach can live five years, and that it takes a year to develop to maturity from the egg.
When they reached the deck there was something that looked like an enormous drowning cockroachtrying to crawl out of the water four hundred yards away.
He was a slippery creature and his fellow countrymen had often admired his "slimness" in former crises; but it was difficult to discover a cranny big enough for a cockroach here, unless he made a clean breast of it to the captain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cockroach" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crab; flea; insect; jigger; louse; mite; nit; parasite; roach
