Lady-bird Sentence Examples

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  • The lady-bird weighs 150 times less than the stag-beetle, and possesses 5 times more of surface, &c. It is the same with the birds.

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  • The former attacks apple and pear; the latter, which selects orange and citron, was introduced into America from Australia, and carried ruin before it in some orange districts until its natural enemy, the lady-bird beetle, Vedalia cardinalis, was also imported.

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  • Of the other birds mere mention may be made of the wild pigeon, raven, indigo-bird, English lady-bird and linnet.

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  • Head Start was launched with much fanfare by Lady Bird Johnson, Lyndon Johnson's wife.

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