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"Lepidoptera" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hard times and financial depression and about our great President who is in a class all alone with himself and soon to become extinct; I thought about art and why there isn't any when it's talked about; I thought of macro-lepidoptera, of metagrammatism, monoliths, manicures, ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers
... afternoon in the British Museum, and discussed Mollusks and Lepidoptera with surreptitious pauses to yawn behind the glass cases, until the first barriers of formality were broken down by the fascination of Egyptian mummies, and the thrilling, imaginary histories which Peggy wove concerning their life on earth. They went over the Tower, and enlivened ...
— More About Peggy • Mrs G. de Horne Vaizey
... were Professor Girdelstone and Mr. Monteagle, of Prince's College. I looked after the scientific welfare of the museum with Lowestoft as my understudy—he was practically a nonentity and an authority on lepidoptera. Now, whenever a grant was made to the left wing of the building, as I call it, I always used to say that science was being sacrificed to archaeology. I mocked at the illuminated MSS. over which Girdelstone grew enthusiastic, and the musty theological folios purchased by Monteagle. ...
— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross |
Words linked to "Lepidoptera" : family Tortricidae, family Gelechiidae, family Pyralidae, Saturniidae, Pyralidae, Tineoidea, Gelechiidae, Bombycidae, family Noctuidae, family Saturniidae, class Insecta, family Geometridae, lepidopterous insect, superfamily Tineoidea, caterpillar, Insecta, Satyridae, family Pyralididae, order Lepidoptera, family Lymantriidae, Nymphalidae, class Hexapoda, family Sphingidae, Tortricidae, lepidopteran, Lasiocampidae, Danaidae, family Arctiidae, family Bombycidae, family Pieridae, Arctiidae, lepidopteron, Pieridae, family Satyridae, Hexapoda, family Danaidae, Noctuidae, family Nymphalidae, Geometridae, family Lasiocampidae, Sphingidae, Lymantriidae, family Lycaenidae, Pyralididae, animal order, Lycaenidae |
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