wood-lice

Another pleasure consists in suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice.

Les Miserables 2008

He had lain down to rest on the fallen trunk of a giant tulip tree, preferring the tickle of wood-lice to seeping damp.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

Beetles, spiders, and wood-lice held a carnival in my room after dark, and the presence of horses in the same house brought a number of horseflies.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

In the sea, lice are found on fishes, but they are generated not out of the fish but out of slime; and they resemble multipedal wood-lice, only that their tail is flat.

The History of Animals 2002

Another night he was catching the wood-lice creeping over our bedroom walls, and must have caught fifty.

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

A few score years ago, sick people were made to swallow burnt toads and powdered earth-worms and the expressed juice of wood-lice.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

There they were and no mistake, all tucked in among the rocks like wood-lice.

With Rimington L. March Phillipps

Perhaps the dust is also caused by the innumerable wood-lice which work in the wood and make a fine wood-dust.

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

They had prescribed the horrid potions of the age: tinctures of earth-worms; confections of spiders and wood-lice and viper's flesh; broth of human skulls, oil, wine, ants 'eggs, and crabs' claws; the bufo preparatus, which was a live toad roasted in a pot and ground to a powder; and innumerable plaisters and electuaries.

The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

The wood-lice of West Ham are proverbially of an irritable nature, and the attitude of the

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-19 Various 1898