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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.
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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cockroach, such as: ant, aphid, bee, beetle, butterfly, and dragonfly.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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