Sentence examples for chasing a butterfly from inspiring English sources

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In the first, our hero is walking along a country road, with Snowy chasing a butterfly at his side.

And the pair are great together: Gallo all grisly and jaded; Ehrenreich as cute as a puppy chasing a butterfly.

What he remembers well out of those years are the points of sanity -- a Red Cross lady, a child chasing a butterfly, etc.

Suddenly the group's strapping drummer, Tyler Stewart, leapt forward and pirouetted across the stage as if he were Bambi blissfully chasing a butterfly.

In one of his poems Wordsworth describes himself and his sister Dorothy (named Emmeline in the poem) chasing a butterfly: "A very hunter did I rush upon the prey … But she, God love her, feared to brush the dust from off its wings". That Wordsworthian delicacy is present in this portrait.

This production (despite the staged Overture with some sort of chamber maid chasing a butterfly -- will directors please stop staging the Overture!) was hysterical.

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But to pontificate thus is to chase a butterfly with a hammer.

You start down one path, find an interesting patch of ferns, chase a butterfly, and before you know it you are lost in the entomology pages of some high school biology department.

If you tried to hold the butterfly, you'd wound it and it wouldn't be able to fly, and if you chase a butterfly like that, you can't catch it because they dart around.

Cat Toy (free), offered four objects to chase: a spider, a butterfly, a red dot and a tiny mouse that squeaked when tapped.

If they were talking you off a ledge or chasing you with a butterfly net, then you might want to do a little more than stop at the Hallmark store.

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