The thing looked a little like a huge beetle supported on metal legs, with glass eyes around the front of its head.

Its grinning face and red cap were covered with huge lumbering beetles.

His hands were crawling with huge and sightless beetles.

From the ledge they watched the sergeant climbing the mountain, following the railway tracks like a huge, stout beetle.

He had leaped upon the broad, hard back of a huge, meat-eating, nocturnal beetle.

Jake yanked his own hand out of the hole in the floor and saw it was covered with huge trundling beetles.

He wore heavy black glasses and his eyes swam like huge waterlogged beetles behind the thick lenses.

He held a huge black beetle between his hands.

"My eyes were opened to bugs in the Amazon - to leaf cutter ants, huge beetles, water insects," she said.

The tractor was moving away in the opposite direction, lumbering like a huge metallic beetle.