cockroach

To give the food-catching silk an extreme workout, researchers used big cockroaches.

She suffered no more beatings—just solitary confinement in an underground cell always dark and dank and cockroach-infested.

It was also full of s--t, a coach scrambling like a cockroach.

Cockroach begins with a failed suicide attempt by the protagonist.

It has been, for Dobbs, a Kafka-like metamorphosis from WASPy establishmentarian to angry-populist cockroach.

Some who would face a mad bull coolly enough spring with disgust from a cockroach or a centipede.

The earthworm, the cockroach, and the bed-bug are regarded as peculiarly disgusting, and all have a particularly offensive odour.

Captain Downs bestowed on Mayo about the same attention he would have allowed to a galley cockroach.

Alluding to the fact that the cockroach likes to eat other roaches, he said why not breed a roach that wouldn't eat anything else?

But when England began trading with the Orient, the cockroach grew venturesome, and began putting to sea as a stowaway.