Before puberty, the ova have lain asleep, as it were, in a cocoon state.

Brain, without them in solution, without enough of them in that wonderful solution, the blood, sleeps or remains dormant like the butterfly in the cocoon.

Maximum three juveniles are hatched from each cocoon.

It was as if she had witnessed the exercise of some secret gift, had seen a cocoon open or an egg hatch.

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She was philosophically trying to make her bed up for a single, by doubling the poncho over lengthwise into a cocoon effect, when she heard a sniffle coming out of the bushes beside her.

You know perfectly well that out of the butterfly egg there comes the caterpillar, and that caterpillar goes into a cocoon, and during the life of the cocoon every organ is changed there and it comes out a butterfly.

That is, the girl whom you left at nine years old and on coming back find her sixteen, has dropped down her skirts, has drawn up her hair, and that is the butterfly cocoon, and it is a mighty pretty butterfly cocoon.

That is, the girl whom you left at nine years old and on coming back find her sixteen, has dropped down her skirts, has drawn up her hair, and that is the butterfly cocoon, and it is a mighty pretty butterfly cocoon.

This process he repeats with an incessant simplicity of renewed commencements, which is almost like the blind acting of instinct leading the insect, which is conscious of its coming change, to spin afresh and afresh its ever-broken cocoon.

Even at a garden-party, where the guests of honor are two English subjects, the young women would be required to veil themselves up to the nose-tips and hide themselves within a veritable cocoon of soft garments.

He tried to howl in the hyacinth web, and chokedand then he merely fought in his close-pressing cocoon, thrusting one hard fist to grasp the broad leaves.

I feel as though I'd been a silkworm all winter, coiled up in a cocoon, and had now suddenly grown my wings!

Later on a calm fire will be lit down there, behind the pointed mountaina circle of glistening rose-color in the gray-blue of the nighta sort of luminous cocoon from which will burst the dazzling edge of the moon.

The ground was soft enough to let the earthworms come up to breathe, so that Robins could catch them easily, and the air was full of all kinds of insects newly out from their long winter sleep in their soft cocoon beds, much to the delight of the Swallows and Flycatchers.

Her most successful exhibitions have been those at Rome, in 1883, when her "Silk-cocoon Carder of Quimper" and "Charity" appeared; and at Turin, in 1884, when "The Three Ages," "The Poor Blind Man," and a portrait of the Prince of Naples were shown, all exquisite in sentiment and excellent in execution.

The "Silk-cocoon Carder of Quimper" has been thus noticed by De Rengis: "If I am not mistaken, Signora Margherita Pillini has also taken this road, full of modernity, but not free from great danger.

Her 'Silk-cocoon Carder' is touched with great disdain for every suggestion of the old school.

The traces of the insects in the winter are prophetic,from the delicate cocoon of some infinitesimal feathery thing which hangs upon the dry, starry calyx of the aster, to the large brown-paper parcel which hides in peasant garb the costly beauty of some gorgeous moth.

When the worm is fully grown, it spins round itself a small ball of silk, called a cocoon.

If this cocoon were left to itself, the worm would change to a moth, and the moth would eat its way out of this little house.

As soon, therefore, as the cocoon is made, it is put into hot water to kill the worm.

XXV. COCOON.

My cocoon tightens, colors tease, I'm feeling for the air; A dim capacity for wings Degrades the dress I wear.

From cocoon forth a butterfly As lady from her door Emerged a summer afternoon Repairing everywhere, Without design, that I could trace, Except to stray abroad On miscellaneous enterprise The clovers understood.