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n. (alternative spelling of ladybird English)
Usage examples of "lady-bird".
And I have held converse with birds and fishes in their degree, and that generation which creepeth on the earth is not held in scorn by me, but oft talk I in sweet companionship with the eft of the pond, and the glowworm, and the lady-bird, and the pismire, and their kind, making them my little gossips.
And I have held converse with birds and fishes in their degree, and that generation which creepeth on the earth is not held in scorn by me, but oft talk I in sweet companionship with the eft of the pond, and the glowworm, and the lady-bird, and the pismire, and their kind, making them my little gossips.
Lady-birds (and their larvae) destroy myriads of the aphides which cause rust, and a flight of Lady-birds should be welcomed as much as a flight of locusts is execrated in other countries.
And they could not understand at all why no swift depredating graces nor any habit of long soft hooting belonged to that lady-bird.