Ah, if the big, bluff fellow only knew what the gift meant to poor little Ladybirdstruggling not to forget and to still keep the heavenly vision in sight.
I must be getting back, or it will be dark before I see Ladybird Fold again.
The house was considerably smaller than Ladybird Fold, although built on the same principle.
The taxi deposited the two chums at the door of Ladybird Fold at precisely the same moment that a telegraph boy was delivering a couple of telegrams.
Let me give you a shakedown at Ladybird Fold," suggested Peter.
When in due course the car arrived at the narrow lane leading to Ladybird Fold, Entwistle, somewhat to his companion's astonishment, insisted upon driving right up to the house.
He's my nearest neighbour and he lives at least half a mile from Ladybird Fold.
Ladybird and I are planning a trip," Nina had further confided.
Nina's inseparable Ladybird would find little to interest her in Crownlands now, Harriet suspected, and they would not long be troubled by her company.
And I won't go to California or Bermuda or any-where else unless Ladybird comes!
But the commonest rhyme addressed to a ladybird is: Cowlady, cowlady, hie thee way whum!
Children in Northumberland call a scarletladybird a sodger.
Her gaze wandered to butterflies, to a lizard that disappeared with a glint of bronze into a cranny, to a ladybird that alighted on her forearm.
On leaving the house she had dared me to notice anything about her eyes; but it is another matter when a tear so engulfs a ladybird that it is a question whether the creature's pretty wing-cases will ever be the same again.
I suppose the ladybird was all right again, for it was nowhere to be seen.
Another pest, of olive trees, is devoured by an imported ladybird of another species.
Tom did not know what winter was, but when he saw that the whole Ladybird kingdom had disappeared and that all the creatures were preparing for a long sleep, he felt that they must surely perish in the lonely wood.
We will think of your poor Chrysomela until the Spring comes, and then I can drive you to the Ladybird kingdom.
One day, as he was standing on the window ledge and looking into the garden, he perceived on a fuchsia near the window a beautiful, red ladybirdwith shining wings, crawling on the blossoms and looking sideways at him.
Mirmex went himself to announce the sad news to Chrysomela and the Ladybird kingdom.
Many of our ladybird rhymes refer to the danger that is threatening, probably from sunset or the direction of the West, but one person is safe.
This request to the ladybird to bring down gifts from heaven has a parallel in our rhyme which entreats it to "carry up ten pounds, and bring down eleven.
Mannhardt was of opinion that the ladybird rhyme originated as a charm intended to speed the sun across the dangers of sunset, that is, the "house on fire" or welkin of the West, which is set aglow at sundown.
The ladybird is the representative among ourselves of a large class of insects which were associated with the movement of the sun from the earliest times.
Those of our ladybird rhymes which call on the insect in matters of love divination have their closest parallels in Scandinavia.
This latter association lingers in the Scottish ladybird rhyme, in which the ladybirdis addressed as landers, i.
A like importance attached to the chafers that had the power of flying, especially to the ladybird (Coccinella septem punctata).
The ladybird is known by a variety of names both in England and abroad.
Nan or Ann reappears in the corresponding ladybird rhymes of Switzerland and Swabia.
A Prussian ladybird rhyme also mentions the boat that sailed across heaven.
Engelland, that is Babyland, and the disabled condition of the human mother, which are mentioned in these games, reappear in the ladybird rhymes.
Among ourselves the ladybird is always addressed in connection with its power of flight.
But Jeremy will feed hisladybird with his own hand three times a day--nor shall his sister Aphra put so much as a pot stick in the cooking, for fear of mistakes!
He will keep this little ladybird safe--oh, very safe, till the wedding dress is ready!
Most important of these is the natural enemy of the orange-tree scale, the ladybug, or ladybird beetle.
A ladybird beetle, which has also been imported, is the most effective agent in keeping this pest in check.
Several lines in the second German version are evidently borrowed from the Ladybird or Maychafer rhyme which has been pronounced a relic of Freya worship.
It is pointed out that the ladybird was Freya's messenger, whose business it was to call the unborn from their tranquil sojourn amongst celestial flowers, into the storms of human existence.
For a time it was a serious pest of citrus, until the introduction and establishment of its natural enemy, the ladybird beetle (Novius cardinalis).
An important natural enemy of this scale is the steel-blue ladybird beetle (Orcus chalybaeus), introduced from Australia.
This pest is held in control by means of the black-ladybird beetle (Rhizobius ventralis)--Fig.
Ladybird has learnt to know then that his mind is walking up and down, walking up and down, in his old prison.
I don't suppose anything about it but what Ladybirdtells me.
On seeing a Ladybird fly off CELIA's Neck, after having perched on it for many minutes.
However, the ladybirddisdained the insect, and flew away among the flowers.
One bright morning in the spring-time, a green caterpillar, on the bough of a tree, was gazing at a ladybirdand seemed bent upon making her acquaintance.
Some time after, in the summer, the ladybird was earnestly admiring a beautiful butterfly which was fluttering about near her.
The butterfly then spread out its light wings and flew away, leaving the ladybird to her own reflections.
The field and the butterflies gave her ever so much more pleasure than the poetry of Alois, ladybird and poet.
Take good care of yourself, please, while I am away; and--take care of my Ladybird as well.
During one of these songs, Ladybird slipped out to the kitchen in search of Martha and Bridget, who were as yet unacquainted with the character of the Primrose Hall guests.
I love you," said Miss Priscilla, and the embrace in which she held Ladybird left no doubt in the mind of anybody present.
Mr. Humphreys was most willing to sing, so Ladybird brought the banjo, and Stella began to play.
Ladybird had bounded down from the piano-stool, and with her eyes flashing, and her voice rising to a higher pitch at each word, she flew out of the room, and was heard stamping up the stairs.
Ladybird to herself, as she walked slowly along the hall.
It happened thatLadybird came in from school that day in an unusually docile frame of mind.
With a smile that seemed to compel a comfortable confidence, he motioned Ladybird back to her grassy seat under the plum-tree, and then sat down by her side.
Arriving at the Blakes' small and exceedingly unattractive residence, Ladybird entered and seated herself with her most conventional calling manner.
Miss Dorinda fluttered about, brought a piazza chair and cushions to make their guest comfortable, while Ladybird seated herself on a cricket, took her chin in her hands, and sat gazing at the young man.
Reassured, Ladybird went back to the parlor, to find her party still going on beautifully.
Her smile faded as she caught sight of Miss Priscilla's face; but before that irate lady could say a word, Ladybird came in from the front hall, marshaling her guests in a decorous line to be presented.
The Ladybirdhad seen to it evidently that the report was not denied!
It was simple enough; but it held a deadly significance in its proof of the fact that there were no obstacles too great, no details too minute to stand in the way between the Ladybird and the end he sought.
It's no wonder I never tumbled to that lay until the Ladybird opened the bag!
Counting those who got on at Selkirk, they're all here to the last man--except the Ladybird and his wheel chair!
Where another might bellow and roar his rage, and threaten, theLadybird lisped his words--and struck.
In a word, every move that had been made by Larson and MacVightie at the instigation of the Secret Service men, and, presumably, in particular by one Birks, was known to the Ladybird and the Wire Devils.
The Ladybird was craned forward again in the wheel chair listening intently, he sank back now and scowled murderously at the Hawk.
Dick was studying the movements of a ladybird with red back and black spots, which was crawling up a grass-stem, and wondering how such a pretty creature could eat a green juicy aphis, as it has a habit of doing.
How the start is made I do not know, but it is evident that between the base of the wing covers of the ladybird and her neck or thorax is a weak spot in her armor and the assassin thrusts his beak into this crack.
Perhaps this is heightened by the contrast between the pretty, trim form of the ladybirdand the ugliness of the assassin bug.
It must be admitted that, as things go in Nature, the ladybird has met her just fate, for she has spent her life devouring bugs, the sucking aphids and scale insects of our rose bushes and cherry trees.
One of the most active of these predaceous insects is the spotted ladybird (Megilla maculata DeG.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ladybird" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
