How To Use Scarab In A Sentence
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The lamellate antennae are often found in the Scarabidae, but we aren't happy with that ID either.
What's That Bug?
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Un '_Amatore_ a cui forse l' ignobile itinerario della _Starke_ ha rivelate quella sublime veduta, sta colassu scarabocchiando uno sbozzo pell 'Album del suo _drawing room_.
Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Utset called the scarab beetle and gave him the sack of stars, telling him to pass out first with them.
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest
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Remember how I said my scarab was the most painful yet?
Here I Go Again
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Plunged into depression, she sought information about the traditions surrounding King Tut and came to believe that repatriating the scarab was the only way to break the alleged curse.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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There are people who believe that their Sony-Ericsson scarab not only spreads sweetness and light, but can also cure chilblains.
IPhone worship has seen the media lose all sense of proportion
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About six inches in diameter, the amulet was a golden heart-shaped scarab, a dung beetle that, the sign said, ancient Egyptians used to symbolize rebirth.
The Welkening
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One level deeper into the scarab is a blend of the Egyptian ankh and the Christian cross.
The Welkening
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There was free choice for the visitors of this pattern-room in the matter of mummy-cases and cloths, as well as of necklets, scarabaei, statuettes,
Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 05
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In 1995, thieves burrowed through the wall of a storeroom used to house artefacts at the Temple of Montu in Karnak, and looted some 55 scarabs and statues.
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The word translated "swarms of flies" most probably denotes the great Egyptian beetle, Scarabaeus sacer, which is constantly represented in their sculptures.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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The preferred diet consists of ant pupae, sawfly larvae, beetles, scarabaeids, longicorn beetle larvae, and the larvae of cossid moths.
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During temple rituals, participants may wear ordinary clothes, or a variety of Egyptian-style robes, headdresses, and jewelry such as ankh pendants or scarab rings.
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Enclosing the scarab was a framework of gold which had held, among other elements, a pair of cartouches containing the names of a pharaoh.
The Curse of the Pharaohs
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There in a small blue and white porcelain dish sat the scarab ring.
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You can get an ancient oil lamp for about $75 or so, or a multitude of Egyptian scarabs and Roman Fibulae for even less, or coins of the ancient world from $20 and up.
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But the scarab also holds deep personal significance for me.
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Scarabeo Stone Camp, a tented retreat set amid the desert highlands of Morocco, is a vanisher's paradise.
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He picked it up, seeing it was a golden scarab.
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The word " scarab " had roused Emerson from his meditations.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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I believe, in contradiction to most etymologists, that the Egyptian scarab, chepera, is our word chafer, French cafard, and possibly Italian scarafaggio.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3
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They were of all kinds, — gray, black, white, scarabaeus-colored: some were shot with gold, some spangled, some chined; some were double-breasted and crossed like a shawl, others were straight in the collar; some had turned-over collars, some buttoned up to the top with gilt buttons.
Eug�nie Grandet
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The cantharus or scarabeus rolls a piece of dung into a ball, lies hidden within it during the winter, and gives birth therein to small grubs, from which grubs come new canthari.
The History of Animals
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In ancient Egypt they worshipped all kinds of creatures even insects and bugs like a scarab beetle.
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And, above all, there are dealers in mummies, offering for sale mysteriously shaped coffins, mummy-cloths, dead hands, gods, scarabaei -- and the thousand and one things that this old soil has yielded for centuries like an inexhaustible mine.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
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Bedouins, who exercise the office of excavators, and sleep hard by in holes like jackals, advance to sell us scarabaei, blue-glass trinkets that are half fossilised, and feet or hands of the dead.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
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The evening started in true daredevil fashion when acrobats from the Scarabeus Theatre Company scaled the walls of the Franciscan Friary in a dramatic performance that was not for the faint-hearted.
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I asked, rubbing my hands over the blaze, and wishing the whole tribe of scarabaei at the devil.
The Gold-Bug
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The most common Egyptian amulet was the scarab, made in the form of a sacred beetle, and this design continued to be used in early Greek and Etruscan work.
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It turns out that only some male horned scarab beetles grow long horns and battle for mates.
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In ancient Egypt they worshipped all kinds of creatures even insects and bugs like a scarab beetle.
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The perpetuity of the transformations or the power to become, whenever it pleased, the form it desired; was everywhere recalled to the mind of the people of Ancient Egypt, by the symbolic figure of the scarab, the hieroglyph of the words: _To become_, _to be_, _to be existing_, as also creator, an amulet of power above all others.
Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.
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Also of Egyptian manufacture is the beautiful glazed steatite scarab inscribed with a knot design typical of the late Middle Kingdom (mid to late Dynasty 13) unearthed on the very first day of the 2001 excavations.
Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubians at Hierakonpolis
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Gently, he turned over the scarab to reveal miniscule hieroglyphics on the back.
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The scarabs appeared to have left the area, but there was no telling when they would return.
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Castellani also incorporated cameos, scarabs, and enamel into pieces of jewelry as had been done in ancient times.
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Anyone thinking their children will be amused, thrilled, or humored by this bilious blob of scarab bile needs to rip out their internal organs, stuff onions up their nose, and apply liberal amounts of gauze to their vacuous person.
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In the spring of 1999, The Mummy was released and unleashed hordes of decomposing corpses, flesh-eating scarabs, and Biblical plagues onto an audience in the glory of digital special effects.
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Pollination of petaloid geophytes by monkey beetles (Scarabaenidae: Rutelinae: Hopliini) in southern Africa.
Succulent Karoo
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The ladybirds are suburban scarabs - there is something jewel-like about them, like tiny ladybird cufflinks set with emeralds and diamonds, or enamels, etched with intricate engravings.
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The wide range of trophic resources consumed by Geotrupidae dung beetles and the generally accepted saprophagous habits of the Scarabaeoidea ancestors suggest that the consumption of acorns constitutes a faculty that takes advantage of previous morphological adaptations.
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Flying insects have absolutely no tail, and so drift along like a rudderless vessel, and beat against anything they happen upon; and this applies equally to sharded insects, like the scarab-beetle and the chafer, and to unsharded, like bees and wasps.
On the Gait of Animals
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The scarab, which is a very small one, Leo had insisted upon having set in a massive gold ring, such as is generally used for signets, and it was this very ring that I now picked up.
She
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Khepri was the sacred scarab, whom the Egyptians believed was associated with the power of renewal, rebirth and resurrection.
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One day I found him making scarabaei out of bits of agate and lapis lazuli.
My Life as an Author
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The wife of King Albert, Queen Paola, commissioned Fabre, who used the jewel-like shells of scarabs culled from the Far East.
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Egyptian scarabaei were perched on an Alpine mountain; there a clay amphora, of the shape of the Greeks or Romans, was adorned with gaudy plates cut out of fashion magazines.
The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879
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The forefeet of scarabs are so little destined for modelling and rolling mud balls that their tarses are worn out in the process.
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He let it in, caught it, and it turned out to be a common rose chafer—a beetle closely resembling a golden scarab.
ENTANGLED MINDS
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Khepri was the sacred scarab, whom the Egyptians believed was associated with the power of renewal, rebirth and resurrection.
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The scarab is accompanied by a man with a brush whose job is to sweep the litter into the road so that the scarab can lift it.
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Another exhibit is a basalt and gold amulet in the shape of a scarab beetle, with a blank space on the back where the buyer's name could be written.
Book of the Dead Comes To Life At British Museum
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It sat there like some leech or scarab that nothing could shake off
COMPULSION
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This marked the end of the first phase of -- so to speak -- the scarabaean side of his life.
Something New
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These words are to be inscribed on a hard green, gold-coated scarab, which is to be inserted through the mouth into the bosom of the deceased.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
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Give me the names of the better-known species of the British scarabaei," said he.
Tales of Terror and Mystery
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And there are no bugs there, like the one I encountered yesterday when the Hasbro game refused to let my friend Austin play, and I'm serious about this, play the word, scarabaei - S-C-A-R-A-B-A-E-I, which is the plural form of scarab, a beetle.
Word Score! Scrabulous Returns As Lexulous
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The pollinators of Asclepias woodii and Sisyranthus trichostomus were chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniini) belonging to two species, Atrichelaphinis tigrina and Cyrtothyrea marginalis.
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This is borne out by scarabs dating from the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, which suggest that he was still worshipped some 2,000 years after his death.
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Puzzled by the unknown cause of all this barely subdued commotion, Stephanie absently fingered the scarab pendant suspended by a gold chain to nestle in the valley between her breasts, the loose weave of her white rollneck sweater providing a backdrop for the jewelry.
Heart Of Stone
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Both adults and immature coleopterous insects belonging to 28-families were collected in the entire agro-forest area with the dominance of scarabaeidae, carabaeidae and coccinellidae.
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It turns out that only some male horned scarab beetles grow long horns and battle for mates.
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The ancestral shift in feeding habits from saprophagy to coprophagy in the Scarabaeoidea probably coincided with the appearance of large terrestrial herbivores, particularly grazing Mesozoic reptiles and subsequently mammals
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This scarab is invariably engraved with a special formula (chap. xxx.,
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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The scarab image was used for recording historical events.
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It was some sort of ancient Idol, and I found a necklace with a scarab in it.
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They included an Egyptian scarab whose hieroglyphics told how Amen Hotep III of the 18th dynasty shot 102 fierce lions with his own bow.
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The dung beetle subfamily Scarabaeinae is a cosmopolitan group of insects that feed primarily on dung.
Archive 2009-01-01
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-- As he got out the word larvae, a faint sense of the ridiculous seemed to take hold of the Scarabee, and for the first and only time during my acquaintance with him a slight attempt at a smile showed itself on his features.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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For the moment, the scarabs were lost from sight.
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Each merchant's tales of how the scarabs came from the tomb of Tutankhamun grew less and less likely with every member of the caravan.
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Castellani also incorporated cameos, scarabs, and enamel into pieces of jewelry as had been done in ancient times.
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For he that carries this scarab is the guard of many a sacred and coveted secrets.
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And if anyone wants to read a really good romance with some mystery, check out Scarab by Penning Fantasy.
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I need not detail how at the sale he put buyers on their guard, exposing the fraud, and condemning the peccant scarabaei to extinction.
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