"Pupa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... appearance, the Capricorn is powerless to leave the tree-trunk by his unaided efforts. It therefore falls to the worm, to the wisdom of that bit of an intestine, to prepare the way for him. We see renewed, in another form, the feats of prowess of the Anthrax, whose pupa, armed with trepans, bores through rock on the feeble Fly's behalf. Urged by a presentiment that to us remains an unfathomable mystery, the Cerambyx-grub leaves the inside of the oak, its peaceful retreat, its unassailable stronghold, to wriggle towards the outside, ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre
... Transactions of the Linnaean Society, for 1868, he has argued strongly in favour of Mr. Bates' views as to the higher position of the Danaidae and the lower grade of the Papilionidae, and has adduced, among other facts, the undoubted resemblance of the pupa of Parnassius, a genus of Papilionidae, to that of some Hesperidae and moths. I admit, therefore, that he has proved the Papilionidae to have retained several characters of the nocturnal Lepidoptera ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace
... gracious condescensions of a private nature. I may however state, as a curiosity of literature, that the 35th of my "Three Hundred Sonnets," published by Virtue in 1860, is headed "India's Empress," written certainly twenty years before such a title was thought of, even by Lord Beaconsfield in his pupa phase of D'Israeli. As very few have the volume, long out of print, I will here produce that fortunate prophecy; the "way ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... well-known bibliographer, having found 27 volumes so pierced in a straight line by one worm, a miracle of gluttony, the story of which, for myself, I receive "cum grano salis." After a certain time the larva changes into a pupa, and then emerges as a small ...
— Enemies of Books • William Blades |
