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[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
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| ... the dreams of a caterpillar with impunity. At a constant pressure, the volume of a given daydream remains inversely proportional to reality. Then, a butterfly unfurls its lovely soul, peels an orange to the ringing of crystalline bells, and peers through a pair of binoculars like a Chinaman in Rome. ... |
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[ DRAMA]
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| ... NICK: Do you think so? ESTELLE: (Sharply) Meaning? NICK: Meaning ... (He laughs nervously. He's on dangerous territory here.) All right, 'E'. Meaning, you're a butterfly. Well, aren't you? ESTELLE: (Awkward pause as Estelle suppresses hurt and anger. To Charity) Would you like a bath? (Embarrassed look) I just meant ... CHARITY: ( ... |
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[ SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES]
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| ... black lace. My hair was frizzed in front, with a cluster of white hyacinths surmounting the top row of curls, and a beautifully embroidered butterfly Aunt Sallie had made for me half-hidden among them, as if seeking its way to the flowers. My train was very long, but I ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... of a naturalist. Accordingly, having made everything snug in camp, the party, Tom and Ned equipped with electric rifles, and the professor with a butterfly net and specimen boxes, set forth. Mr. Damon said he would carry a stout club as his weapon. The jungle, as usual, was teeming with ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... the wing is devoid of quill-structure or division of any kind. Again, some insects have antennae in front of their eyes, as the butterfly and the horned beetle. Such of them as have the power of jumping have the hinder legs the longer; and these long hind-legs whereby ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... most cases of insect copulation this process is speedily followed up by parturition. All insects engender grubs, with the exception of a species of butterfly; and the female of this species lays a hard egg, resembling the seed of the cnecus, with a juice inside it. But from the grub, ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... like a melon-seed, by observing which indication the physician concludes that his patient is troubled with the worm. The so-called psyche or butterfly is generated from caterpillars which grow on green leaves, chiefly leaves of the raphanus, which some call crambe or cabbage. At first it is less ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... other apparent organ. After a little while the outer covering bursts asunder, and out flies the winged creature that we call the psyche or butterfly. At first, when it is a caterpillar, it feeds and ejects excrement; but when it turns into the chrysalis it neither feeds nor ejects excrement. ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... you keep count of these things, but what have we to do with either when their initial duty is done. Look at that painted butterfly swinging on the honeyladen catkin there. What knows she of the mother who shed her life into a flowercup and forgot which flower it was ... |
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| ... sir," observed the girl as she sucked the honey out of the stalk of an azure convolvulus flower and threw the remains at a butterfly that sailed across the sunshine, "you know so little! You have come from afar, from some barbarous and barren district. Here we undoubtedly grow our ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... of remaining like plants in the places in which they grew. Alan has been a caterpillar for untold ages; can he not become the butterfly?" "Since we have found out how to straighten the axis," said Deepwaters, "might we not go one better, and improve the orbit as well?--increase ... |
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