Moths

Examples

• It was like strange moths, very soft and silent, settling on her from the darkness of her soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This latter fact is well exemplified in the state of the wings of female moths belonging to the same family. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• You're not turning your head to look after more moths, are you? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, replied Estella, with a glance towards him, hover about a lighted candle. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Quatrefages states that the hybrids from two moths (Bombyx cynthia and arrindia) were proved in Paris to be fertile inter se for eight generations. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Measures were taken to select the seed of the heal thy moths and to destroy the others. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Wildeve contemplated her for a minute, and then retreating into the heath beat the ferns lightly, whereupon moths flew out alarmed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• There was nothing but pickled vermin, and drawers full of blue-bottles and moths, with no carpet on the floor. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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