deathwatch
deathwatch beetle
Anobium pertinax latin

Then he had been moved to the prison's deathwatch area.

He heard low voices behind him, the deathwatch around her bed.

Through the open door, they could see the deathwatch continuing around the old teacher's bed.

It had better be important to interfere in a deathwatch.

I stayed there by the window all night, keeping a sort of deathwatch.

Daddy's last days brought a classic country deathwatch into our house.

Everybody else had sort of given up, just on a deathwatch at that point, but I couldn't.

Ordinary folk may see autumn as something of a deathwatch.

All by the mere touch of a bone finger on the Deathwatch!

Ellis Cooper was the only prisoner on deathwatch at that time.

"It sounds to me like the ticking of a deathwatch.

This was more than a deathwatch, less than a wake.

He would say that that is the tapping of a deathwatch.

Suddenly, there were hands on me, lifting me from my deathwatch.

A party of Deathwatch Guards would be easy to locate.

Tapping deathwatch beetles are located by sound rather than sight.

In any event, war had always been a second calling for the Deathwatch Guard.

Had the deathwatch beetle of metal fatigue got into the wings?

Debating such issues may be evidence of another way in which the long deathwatch subtly liberated the nation.

This is a life watch, not a deathwatch.

It's a bit of an Irish deathwatch we're having tonight.'

And after awhile he began to hear it in the walls: the low, soft ticking of the deathwatch.

Ranks in the Deathwatch Guard stood half a step higher than those outside.

His friends-he was a snare for them, a walking deathwatch.

Instead it sounded like the closing of the condemned prisoner's deathwatch cell.

Tapping deathwatch beetles are located by sound rather than sight.

Had the deathwatch beetle of metal fatigue got into the wings?

Weakness in one member is the deathwatch beetle in the total structure.

"Some deathwatch beetle settling down to a banquet off the old chateau.

The deathwatch beetles begin to gather around me, clicking their mandibles in mourning.

One of the very ancient ones, who was barely holding himself together, made a noise like deathwatch beetle finally conquering a rotten tree.

Deathwatch beetles-- carrion eaters, the funeral attendants of the waste.

Woodworm will flourish in most softwoods, and in the right conditions deathwatch beetle will attack hardwoods.

"Staff," Jackson said, "eithercheer up or shut up; we don't need to hear you ticking away like a deathwatch beetle."

'Deathwatch beetle,' Leo said.

In addition to this, woodworm and dry and wet rot had set in, and the deathwatch beetle was rife.

"And wet rot, rising damp, woodworm, deathwatch beetles- you name it," Joram replied, pulling on gloves.

Less commonly, it can also be used to control rodents, powderpost beetles, deathwatch beetles, bark beetles, and bedbugs.

The tell-tale signs are pin holes and dust in both soft- and hardwoods; the mighty deathwatch beetle leaves larger holes in hardwoods such as elm and oak.

Recalling his part in the West Port murders long ago, he announces his intention to kill Wolverine and feed him to the deathwatch beetles to steal his adamantium skeleton.

That which the tireless assault of wind and weather had not achieved without, had been amply accomplished within by wood-worm and a multifarious variety of fungi, dry rot and deathwatch beetle.

When reading through church magazines it seems it is one long appeal for cash, even until the present with appeals for the heating, eradication of deathwatch beetle and the most recent, for tiles for the church roof.

The fan vaulting was installed in the 1950s after the wooden roof (there was no money for a vault to be installed in the 15th century after King Henry VI was deposed) became infested with deathwatch beetle.

Like a deathwatch beetle, its mandibles tick-tick-ticking as it quarried tunnels deep within a mass of wood, the Other Martie squirmed in Martie's flesh, bored through her bones, and chewed at the fibers of her soul.

This subject may send shivers down your spine, but you are right to be alarmed, for whether it is the lowly woodworm or the dreaded deathwatch beetle, whether it is dry rot or wet rot, all weaken the structural timbers of a dwelling.

A) Fallow deer or possibly snoring badger, blackbird, foxes , Pheasant B)Buzzard, deathwatch beetle, frogs, siskin, grasshoppers, puffin C) yellowhammer, prawn , Muntjac, Bees, tern D) Red deer, wren, Swans, roe stag.

His voice called to her in all the sounds that had ever frightened her-spoken soft, it was the tick of a deathwatch beetle under the stairs, telling that someone loved would soon pass over; spoken loud it was the afternoon thunder rolling amid the clouds that came out of the west like boiling Armageddon.