273 examples of caterpillar in sentences

That queer old hangs to the library like a caterpillar.

Thou penurious knave, caterpillar, and what's worse?

But if he thinks fit to take his dues in kind, he then either demands his true and utmost right; and if so, it is a great hazard if he be not counted a caterpillar!

But no, the young Crab is as much like a Crab as a caterpillar is like a butterfly.

It was called a zoea; but you can call it a Crab caterpillar or larva.

He is a kind of caterpillar that spoils much good fruit, and an unprofitable creature to live in a commonwealth.

I would not be ready to throw in the teeth of a pretty butterfly that it was an ugly caterpillar once, unless I understood that the butterfly liked to remember the fact.

"If you please," says she,'n' took it from him, 'n' gave him a look that made him curl up like a caterpillar on a hot shovel.

* THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR As an ant, of his talents superiorly vain, Was trotting, with consequence, over the plain, A worm, in his progress remarkably slow, Cried"Bless your good worship wherever you go; I hope your great mightiness won't take it ill, I pay my respects with a hearty good-will.

In the egg of the Papilio, the epidermis or external integument falling off, a caterpillar is disclosed; the second epidermis drying, and being detached, it is a chrysalis; and the third, a butterfly.

that it is the tail of the caterpillar which becomes the head of the butterfly.

The caterpillar weaves its web from its mouth, finishes with the head downwards, and the head, with the six front legs, are thrown off from the chrysalis, and may be found dried up, but quite distinguishable, at the bottom of the web.

I was sitting reading aloud to grandmamma in the garden when from the trees above there fell upon my neck, which was bare, a fat, hairy caterpillar.

I long to ask them when the calmness and indifference set in; how long I shall have to wait before I can really profit by grandmamma's lesson of the caterpillar.

I keep saying to myself when I hear him coming, "remember the caterpillar, caterpillar, caterpillar."

I keep saying to myself when I hear him coming, "remember the caterpillar, caterpillar, caterpillar."

I keep saying to myself when I hear him coming, "remember the caterpillar, caterpillar, caterpillar."

Recently a caterpillar famine began to make itself felt in the parts of the garden near the house, and the enthusiasm of the collectors evaporated at the prospect of searching farther afield.

" Haynes suggested that Philip's behaviour savoured of unpatriotism, and that the one thing needful was the immediate appointment of a caterpillar controller.

Next we festooned the estate with helpful notices, such as "This way to the Trap >" and "Caterpillar Buffet first turn to Left."

The butterfly of the tent-caterpillar saddled her eggs on the very first twig that was formed, and it has since shared her affections with the wild cherry; and the canker-worm also, in a measure, abandoned the elm to feed on it.

Tales of the Caterpillar Club.

Catherine Caterpillar, by Jock Munro.

Catherine Caterpillar, by Jock Munro.

The caterpillar has to mount the twig to find the tender green that is his food, but, he solaces himself for the journey by thinking himself a creature of the light.

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