When, oh! when indeed, will the real human creature emerge from its age-long chrysalis? FOOTNOTES: And even the hundred and one humane Associations of to-day derive a great part of their enthusiasm and vitality from fighting each other! Put into English by Lady Gregory.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

In Leeming-street it was in the chrysalis state; in Fishergate the butterfly epoch has been reached.

The presence of Chou Nu served merely to stress the sense of unreality: for, obviously, only the heroine of a true fairy tale could have broken from a chrysalis stage of sordid Soho to the brilliant butterfly existence of a Russian princess domiciled in the most aristocratic quarter of London and attended by a Chinese maid!

I had known this before; but never did I so realize the significant symbolism of the act as when I looked at this lifeless yet lifelike thing, to be made into the beauty of a woman, called by her name, and cherished after her death,and saw that only through this chrysalis of the clay, so cared for, moistened, and moulded, could the marble obtain its soul.

The golden-haired woman spoke again, writing further: "Alcibiades, for cakes on honey from Hymettus for Hetera Chrysalis, three minae.

And then that Chrysalis!

scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin, codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin^; aurelia^, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha^, orphan, pupa, staddle^. girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden; virgin; hoyden.

He made leaps for sun-spots which he saw on the ground; and for a poor little butterfly that had come out of his chrysalis too soon.

If Love, red Love, with tears and joy,if Want with his scourge,if War with his cannonade,if Christianity with its charity,if Trade with its money,if Art with its portfolios,if Science with her telegraphs through the deeps of space and time, can set his dull nerves throbbing, and by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and free,make way, and sing paean!

"Say, rather, that you left him a chrysalis and come back to find him a butterfly.

And who would have thought that my little ugly chrysalis of troubles would have turned out such beautiful butterflies of blessings?

So long as her body did not move, it ceased to exist altogether and set her spirit free, like a pale-winged luna moth from its chrysalis to adventure into the night.

She had the wit to perceive that Charlie Benton had emerged from the chrysalis stage, that he had the will and the ability to mold his life after his elected fashion, and that her coming was a relatively unimportant incident.

They are not merely people who are beginning to prosper and have only just emerged from the chrysalis state of modern civilization, but are citizens who have been prospering for some time, or are the children of men who have been prosperous, and they "live up" accordingly.

In every Italian school the butterfly breaks loose from the chrysalis.

And often ancestors, after passing a long life in illegal slavery, sprung at last, like the chrysalis in autumn, into new existence, beneath the genial rays of the sun of liberty, which shed at the same time its benign influence upon their children, and children's children.

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.

Nobody can mistake Chuzzlewit Hotel and Chrysalis College.

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.

In some, however, the original plural is not so formed; but is made by changing is to ~ides; as, aphis, aphides; apsis, apsides; ascaris, ascarides; bolis, bolides; cantharis, cantharides; chrysalis, chrysalides; ephemeris, ephemerides; epidermis, epidermides.

Then Angeli, who guessed what was the matter, laughed and said that what she saw before her was only the chrysalis, from which the butterfly would come forth in time.

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in its chrysalis.

It is only by love that understanding comes, and no one ever understood children better or painted them half so well: they are no mites of puny perfection, no angels astray, no Psyches in all the agonies of the bursting chrysalis, but real little flesh-and-blood people in pinafores, approached by nobody's hand so nearly as George Eliot's.

I am as empty as a chrysalis-case, that the butterfly has gone out of to dwell amid sunshine and flowers.