With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.
The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.