Sentence example with the word 'cockchafers'

cockchafers

Last update: August 30, 2015


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The vegetable-feeders attack leaves, herbaceous or woody stems and roots; frequently different parts of a plant are attacked in the two active stages of the life-history; the cockchafers, for example, eating leaves, and their grubs gnawing roots.   [Please select]

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"Though the cockchafers are a temptation, I will stop here."   [Please select]

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The moss was dry and the plants green, while the grass seemed all alive with the hum of bees and cockchafers.   [Please select]

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They were troubled also, once or twice, by cockchafers and locusts, which annoyed them, not indeed by biting, but by flying blindly against their faces, and often narrowly missed hitting them in the eyes.   [Please select]

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