stag beetle

As long as a weaver's beam was each of her two shins, and they were as dark as the back of a stag-beetle.

The hirschkfer (stag-beetle) in its worm state makes its bed-chamber, prior to its metamorphosis, half as long as itself.

The toy called a kite is in French cerf volant, flying stag, a name also applied to the stag-beetle, and in Ger.

A little boy called Bell possessed the stag beetle which was the favourite for the coming races.

A large stag-beetle was crawling laboriously across the dressing-table.