"The crumbs to catch the birds, especially the ladybirds," he said with a sweep of his hand, then took me through the shop into a passage and thence to a room on the right.
"The Virgin of the Sun"
H. R. Haggard
Then there are the discoveries, the feathery grasses, especially those which were hidden, the ladybirds, that sand is really "tiny tiny stones"-has every adult noticed that, or is sand "just sand"?
"The Child Under Eight"
E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith
His little boy and girl are crawling about near him, digging in the sand or catching ladybirds in the grass.
"The Wife and Other Stories"
Anton Chekhov