cockroach

This frustrated Irene Tobler, a sleep physiologist working at the University of Zurich in the late 1970s, who had begun to study the behavior of cockroaches, curious whether invertebrates like insects sleep as mammals do.

Tobler soon laid out her case that cockroaches were either sleeping or doing something very like it.

Some companies charge $175 or less for a single treatment for cockroaches, while others charge $300 or more.

To give the food-catching silk a good workout, researchers used big cockroaches.

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.