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"Lepidoptera" Quotes from Famous Books

... know about the butterfly. It may be that Wiggs has lost us here a thought on lepidoptera which the world can ill spare; ...

— Once on a Time • A. A. Milne

... Lepidoptera collected at Singapore by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with Descriptions of New ...

— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

... will recompense you at His own time, take the word for it of one who has also been through the Slough of Despond." And then just these ... these hobbies of his, of which he had made so much. Now that he was alone with himself he saw them in a very different light. Lepidoptera collected years since were still unregistered, plants and stones unclassified; his poor efforts at elucidating the Bible waited to be brought into line with the Higher Criticism; Home's levitations and fire-tests called for investigation; while the leaves of some of the books he had ...

— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson

... The Lepidoptera, which before were rare, became more and more common in 1879, 1880, and 1881, and so much so that during the last named year they abounded; and species that had formerly been detected only at certain favored points spread over the entire coast and into the interior of the country. The geometers ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 • Various

... been the Demiurge, he would have put youth at the end of life instead of at the beginning, and would have otherwise so ordered matters that every human being should have three stages of development, somewhat corresponding to those of the lepidoptera. Then it occurred to me that this fantasy was in substance scarcely more than the delicate modification of a most ancient doctrine, common to nearly all the ...

— In Ghostly Japan • Lafcadio Hearn