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- noun Plural form of
cockchafer .
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Examples
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"Though the cockchafers are a temptation, I will stop here.
My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883
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As in “Gone to Earth”: by the way what are cockchafers in Systema Naturae by Carolus Linnaeus
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That scene with the cockchafers and the Bible razor.
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“Yes,” replied the two copying-clerks and the engrosser, whose pens forthwith began to creak over the stamped paper, making as much noise in the office as a hundred cockchafers imprisoned by schoolboys in paper cages.
Le Colonel Chabert 2007
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“Yes,” replied the two copying-clerks and the engrosser, whose pens forthwith began to creak over the stamped paper, making as much noise in the office as a hundred cockchafers imprisoned by schoolboys in paper cages.
Le Colonel Chabert 2007
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Poets have been swarming like cockchafers for two years past.
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Masses of starlings flitting through the air and hopping about the walks were noisily chattering as they hunted for cockchafers.
The Wife 2004
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Then there were the moths — tiger moths, yellow moths, and horrid cockchafers.
The Voyage Out 2004
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It was the big cockchafers we had for a year or so that decided her.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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Before the queen had recovered from her surprise, cockchafers, red-breasts, mouse and children had all flown, singing, to the window, and disappeared from view.
The Olive Fairy Book 2003
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