Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarabees
Literary usage of Scarabees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker (1897)
"He may be master of everything about the great subject of scarabees, but it
scarcely occurs to him to explain the scarabees themselves, still less to use ..."
2. Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes by Catherine Gasquoine Hartley (1917)
"The scarabees are among the most beautiful of all insects, and the female and
male share the same glory. It is my belief that the secondary sexual ..."
3. Italy: Handbook for Travellers : Second Part, Central Italy and Rome by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1875)
"3rd R- : Idols and ornaments ; scarabees (stones cut in the shape of ... 4th and
5th R.: Several mummies of animals, scarabees, bronzes of animals (ihis, ..."
4. Notes During a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis Boeris, Mount Sinai, and by Frederick Henniker (1824)
"Among the relics that I procured, are earthenware rings, scarabees, pocket idols,
and representations of the devil playing the harp ; also various animals. ..."
5. The Oriental World: A Record of Travel, Adventure and Exploration in Russia by Thomas Wallace Knox (1889)
"There was one man with a string of scarabees and another with a miniature bust
of one of the old kings that I think offered their wares as often as once in ..."
6. The Poet at the Breakfast-table: He Talks with His Fellow-boarders and the by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
"The insect population of the world is not even catalogued yet, and a lifetime
given to the scarabees is a small contribution enough to their study. ..."
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