The butterfly was also often represented upon the seven strings of the lyre, and upon a burning torch.
The little pig of St Anthony; thebutterfly as a phallical symbol.
Yes, that butterfly breaking from its chrysalis in my hand shaped my future career.
Neither Grimm, nor Laboulaye, nor any of the masters of fairy-lore, seems to have discovered that a fairy has no right to those butterfly wings which the pages of books show us.
I never found a bug, caterpillar, or butterflythat I did not compare my specimens with the Marsh pictures.
It was no caterpillar, but a tiny, black bird with a beautiful rosy band in his tail, and which proved to be that butterfly among the birds, the redstart.
The polyphemus, for instance, whose cocoon, filled with hopes of a beautiful butterfly existence, yields only a swarm of wasps.
I've counted at least seven, three bees, one or two beetles, a butterfly and a worm.
The butterfly spread his wings to the sky, As the sweet-faced child again tripped by, And he thought: "How envious she will be My beautiful azure wings to see!
I speak of its three lives, but we must not forget that they make after all but one life, and that the Caterpillar is as truly the same being with the future Butterfly as the child is the same being with the future man.
All know the story of the Butterfly with its three lives, as Caterpillar, Chrysalis, and Winged Insect.
Now how am I to know whether I was then, Chwangtse dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am Chwang?
But Butterfly Chwang, the rascal, undertook to let us know; and wrote it out in full.
The great lack in him is his failure to appreciate Confucius; and to explain that, before I go further with Butterfly Chwang, I shall take a glance at the times he lived in.
All these ideas are a natural growth from the teachings of Laotse; but Butterfly Chwang, in working them out and stating them so brilliantly, did an inestimable service to the ages that were to come.
Giles, known to this day as "Butterfly Chwang"; and the name is not all inappropriate.
I followed my butterfly fancies, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man.
In the deep recesses of his mind, he created a clear picture of a typical, prototype butterfly gimmick.
You'll never know how warped until that butterfly folds its wings down--and they kiss like little angels.
I tell you that you shall mew your city slough, and change from the caterpillar of a paltry lane into the butterfly of a prince's garden.
The butterfly that seems the child of the summer and the flowers--what wind will not chill its mirth, what touch will not brush away its hues?
Let the pretty butterfly go, because Evy said it was cruel to put it in a card-box; kiss Sophy.
When I was a little child I used to ask her to play at butterfly on my cheeks with her long lashes, and she would put her face close to mine and open and shut her eyes, tickling my cheeks whilst I lay back breathless with delight.
When the paper was spread open, in the midst of its whiteness a magnificent black butterfly with outspread wings was to be seen.
If that is a butterfly I am right, and if anything else, no matter what, I am wrong.
Especially did he appear interested in her silky brown hair, and in the color of her cheek, faintly sprayed and soft, like the downy bloom of a butterfly wing.
The beautiful butterfly trick, however, consoles our eyes for what our ears have suffered.
But, the thing which continued to stir and puzzle him most was the fancy which now and then came, that he might have this wonderful creature precisely like the butterfly he had thought her.
At first there was the sense of having found a butterfly by the dusty roadside of his duty which might yield a moment of joy.
One of the most remarkable and mysterious of the Pictish symbols, found alike in Picardy and Pictland generally, is the so-called butterfly design of which three typical examples are here illustrated.
She had taken the measure of the grown-up butterfly and found it easy of management.
Alfred Russel Wallace in his "Malay Archipelago" writes of this butterfly as he found it in its native element.
The mimicry of this butterfly is purely protective and not for the purpose of deceiving its prey.
Europa, who was a little wearied with playing all day long, did not chase the butterfly with her brothers, but sat still where they had left her, and closed her eyes.
From the very hour that he left following the butterfly in the meadow, near his father's palace, he had done his best to follow Europa, over land and sea.
Before entering into details, it will be as well to sketch some of the broad features of butterfly decoration.
For ages thebutterfly has been acquainted with greens, and browns, and yellows, they are every day experiences; but it has no acquaintance with aniline dyes, and therefore cannot copy them.
A butterfly is, indeed, little more than a beautiful flying machine; for the expanse of wing, compared with the size of the body, is enormous.
A golden butterfly poised for a moment above the white holly hocks and then drifted off over the flaming scarlet poppies and was lost to sight.
And fitting the deed to the word Ruth bent over and gave Doctor Philip a fluttering little butterfly kiss.
Laura LaRue's daughter isn't going to settle down to being either a butterfly or a blue-stocking.
He knew Tony, and knew that in such an environment as Mrs. Norman's home offered the girl would all but inevitably drift into being a gay little social butterfly and forget she ever came to the city to do serious work.
The professor never carries anything more harmful than a butterfly net," replied Jerry.
Over one shoulder was a long-handled butterfly net, and slung on his back was a green box.
They talked of former trips, of his pursuit of the wonderful butterflyin the everglades of Florida, and of his search for the horned toad in California.
He now stood waiting on the beach, armed with his butterfly net; as his butterfly net was attached to a long green pole, one end of which rested on the ground, he had the air of a sort of marine shepherd with a crook.
But the clergyman had nodded his head in approval, a butterfly could certainly mean a great deal; he himself had long been of the opinion that they possessed reasoning powers--he had so seldom been able to capture one.
Mr. Moore, who had been standing with his hands patiently folded over his butterfly pole, now had an inspiration; it was that he himself should remain with "Cousin Rosalie.
Nature is now a very literary personage and a butterfly can mean a great deal.
As the periwig shortened and manners relaxed, he had cultivated the more careless style of the Hanoverian era, with all its butterfly graces and audacious swagger.
The sight of a butterfly calls to the poet's mind the pleasures of the early home, the time when he and his little playmate "together chased the butterfly.
The Hens, the Grey Fox, and the Coyote The Woodpecker made a guitar and gave it to the Butterfly to play on, and the Cock danced a pascual, and the Cricket danced with the Locust, and the Hen was singing.
