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- noun Alternative spelling of
ladybird .
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Examples
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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
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I saw several lady-bird larvae the other day, but I don't know the species.
An ugly lady on the sidewalk AYDIN 2007
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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
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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
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“Nothing, lady-bird!” answered Dame Suddlechop; “and do you use to send for your friends out of bed at this hour for nothing?”
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"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
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"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
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_ -- 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
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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
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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
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Lady-bird! Lady-bird! fly away home;
The glow-worm is lighting her lamp,
The dew's falling fast, and your fine speckled wings
Will flag with the close-clinging damp.
- Vachel Lindsay, 'To The Lady-Bird'.
November 8, 2008