Cockroaches [noun]

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.

Hummel placed under a bell-glass a female cockroach and a perfect egg-pouch, which had only just been abandoned by another female.

If you knew the sort of feeling I have for him—such as you would have if you found a cockroach in your dressing-case.

Naturalists hav also declared that the cockroach has no double teeth.

Later she returns to help her cockroach babies out of their shells.

Who but a man inured to the squalour of a newspaper office would dream of a cockroach as a hero?