He chased the butterfly, he climbed the trees, he would stand in the rain, paint his cheeks with berry juice, dabble in the mud, and nothing was secure from his prying fingers and curious eyes.

She would catch a pretty butterfly, cruelly stick a pin through it, and fasten it in her hair.

" "There is among us," I rejoined, "a saying about 'breaking a butterfly on the wheel'as if one spoke of driving away the tiny birds that nestle and feed in your flowers with a hammer.

Lo! beauty is sorrow, and sorrowful men Have no heart to look on the face of the sky, Or hear the remorseful voice of the sea, Or the song of the wandering wind in the tree, Or even watch a butterfly.

They have been called even by Virginia writers as we have seen, 'butterflies of aristocracy,' who had no influence in affairs or in giving its coloring to Virginia society.

One finds butterflies, too, about these high, sharp regions which might be called desolate, but will not by me who love them.

It so happened that when that stern old lion, Oliver Cromwell, crushed the butterfly named Charles Stuart at Worcester in the dim dawn of the third day of September, 1651, and utterly routed the army of that unhappy prince, one Thomas Stewart fell into the hands of the Roundheads, as, indeed, did near seven thousand others of the Royalist army.

Such a queer little man he is too, with his brown glasses on, and always running this way and that with his little net in which he captures the butterflies that come to the thistles on our old barren fields.

"A money prize offered to boys at Barcombe, Suxxes, for killing cabbage butterflies resulted in over 4,000 insects being destroyed.

"Heads," cried the butterfly.

They brought us no more butterflies, and no more food.

The boy's no fool, As good a heart as hers, but somewhat given To hunt the nearest butterfly, and light The fire of fancy without hanging o'er it The porridge-pot of practice.

At a foreign barrack once, the happiest officer I met, because the most regularly employed, was one who spent his time in collecting butterflies.

The breeze was so strong that it took the butterflies half off their air-legs, and they fairly reeled about in the sun.

Know ye not that we are worms, born to compose the angelic butterfly, provided we throw off the husks that impede our flight?"

Others considered this butterfly as a messenger of heaven, declared that they took the poor insect under their protection, and hindered any injury being done to it.

How still the dancer lies, While color's revelations break, And blaze the butterflies! XVIII.

But when a measurer of tape Turns butterfly and dandy, Assumes their grace, their air, their shape, I wish a pump were handy!

Yet she sighs for each empty swinging nest, And she tenderly holds against her breast A belated butterfly.

On discovering a. butterfly.

Dorothy's acuteness taught her that severity would crush the spirit of the child, and she nurtured him with the gentle care of one who handles a butterfly.

Her lips closed—like a rose that had gone back to be a bud again—and she pondered a moment, slowly freeing and imprisoning the golden butterflies.

The bee is not afraid of me, I know the butterfly; The pretty people in the woods Receive me cordially.

He had lost all his butterflies, and he was not the man to allow himself to be sleepy in the afternoon.

She would lure the butterflies in the garden to her, and the domestic animals obeyed her as if they reasoned.