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"Lepidoptera" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 |
Words linked to "Lepidoptera" : Sphingidae, family Pieridae, family Geometridae, family Danaidae, family Pyralididae, Saturniidae, family Nymphalidae, family Saturniidae, Bombycidae, animal order, Lasiocampidae, family Lymantriidae, Satyridae, Insecta, Hexapoda, family Tortricidae, order Lepidoptera, superfamily Tineoidea, Danaidae, lepidopterous insect, family Lycaenidae, class Hexapoda, family Satyridae, Noctuidae, family Noctuidae, Lymantriidae, family Pyralidae, class Insecta, caterpillar, Tineoidea, family Gelechiidae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae, Pieridae, lepidopteran, Pyralididae, Tortricidae, Pyralidae, Arctiidae, lepidopteron, family Lasiocampidae, Gelechiidae |
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