Sentence examples for dead butterfly from inspiring English sources

Because of that dead butterfly history changed, in a whisper or a roar, all down the aeons of time.

Strange, perhaps; or maybe the only sensible answer to a would-be bohemian Paris, fixed like a dead butterfly to the glories of its own past.

Even his one suit, old and dirty, comes back from the cleaners paperized: "The process of cleaning had so shocked the fabric that it was now broken on the creases, papery and crumbling in his hand like the wing of a dead butterfly".

In a sense you are trapped, pinned like a dead butterfly, to the rules of politeness and avoidance of insult that you have been conditioned to obey.

"It's a flyer!" (a butterfly in flight, said as an exclamation); "There's a sunner!" (a butterfly basking, said with a "whoa-dude, check-it-out" inflection; "Eeewww. It's a grounder!" (a dead, or almost dead, butterfly, said with the regret of finding a fallen comrade).

A rug of dead butterflies at my feet,.

"I tell them to read it, and visualize the images — like the resurrection of dead butterflies.

Not already dead butterflies but live ones, plucked from flower petals by her own hands.

The safest dead butterflies are those in the Natural History Museum, where they reside inside the endless drawers of sealed cabinets.

Dead butterflies may look macabre when two-thirds of Britain's 59 butterfly species are in decline.

In another room, dead butterflies were arranged on white canvases placed around a white table with four overflowing ashtrays.