These paintings effortlessly captivate spectators, moth-like, within their orb. From Wordnik.com. [2008 December 24 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
Although moth-like caddis flies hatched sporadically earlier, he hadn't noticed any interest to them from the trout. From Wordnik.com. [The Retreat] Reference
Her hand came up without her volition and fluttered a moment, and, as she watched, detached, it fluttered, moth-like, to the flame of his fly. From Wordnik.com. [The Sun from Under Water] Reference
I find marks against all those sentences which seem to express a sardonic yet passionate nature; a moth-like impetuosity dashing itself against hard glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
Upon hearing this, Ch'ing Wen's ire was actually stirred up, and her beautiful moth-like eyebrows contracted, and her lovely phoenix eyes stared wide like two balls. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Madame de Stafforth's moth-like personality wearied her. From Wordnik.com. [A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg] Reference
Martre, and its moth-like windmills, telling us we were coming to. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2] Reference
And if, moth-like, she desires the star, she is nervously cautious of candles. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
I have got the moth-like wings of a golden snipe for R-'s hat, and those of a beautiful moor-hen. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from the Cape] Reference
Gemma is sincere or not, and one is angry with Sanin for his moth-like flitting about her radiance. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Russian Novelists] Reference
And then to intrude upon her thus, out of nothing apparently but sheer moth-like incapacity to keep away!. From Wordnik.com. [Marcella] Reference
The skipper family are tiny, fast-flying, almost moth-like butterflies which "skip" from flower to flower. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
So, moth-like, I hovered about the perilous subject, with a nervous endeavour to lend natural composure to my voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
And the more I listen the more I realise that perhaps it's the unexpected noise that has drawn me moth-like to the flame. From Wordnik.com. [mp3hugger] Reference
The front yard was enclosed by a thorny locust hedge, and at the gate grew two silvery, moth-like trees of the mimosa family. From Wordnik.com. [My Antonia] Reference
A few minutes later two others came in their place, -- one a tiny, white, moth-like thing, the other a big, bristling bunch of crimson hairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life] Reference
Jinny, her sister, stared and listened with her puzzled, moth-like expression, while Mother watched and marvelled cautiously from a distance. From Wordnik.com. [A Prisoner in Fairyland] Reference
But to him, in his moth-like weakness, ignorance, and blindness, it seemed to be a great thing that he should be allowed to fly near the candle. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
It was brilliant orange on the lower wings, the upper being shaded orange brown, very moth-like, but the antennae were clubbed like a butterfly's. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences]
Ah, how many parents who have fluttered moth-like near the flame, have seen their children destroyed by it, while they themselves have not escaped unscathed!. From Wordnik.com. [A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies] Reference
You're just looking at a whole bunch of people who lost their Police shouted into the crowd, hastily erecting barricades, but New Yorkers and tourists were moth-like in the. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Barack Obama's reform dream nearer as lone Republican's health vote wavers] Reference
DENVER - Federal officials have rejected a petition seeking protection for a small moth-like insect found known to exist in only three sites: two in Colorado and one in New Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference
"moth-like", and in their native Philippines, the wild phalaenopsis orchids are said to resemble flights of moths in the jungle. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Upon hearing this, Ch’ing Wen’s ire was actually stirred up, and her beautiful moth-like eyebrows contracted, and her lovely phoenix eyes stared wide like two balls. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng] Reference
And moth-like stars were flickering out. From Wordnik.com. [Juxtaposition II] Reference
O ye moth-like lovers of His light!. From Wordnik.com. [Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh] Reference
That lures him, moth-like, to devouring flame. From Wordnik.com. [Polyeucte] Reference
Of moth-like mortals in this vale of tears. From Wordnik.com. [Four Score] Reference
A memory fleeting moth-like in the light to be45. From Wordnik.com. [Transformations] Reference
And moth-like stars were flickering out. From Wordnik.com. [Benito's Wine Reviews] Reference
Soft, moth-like, sweet. From Wordnik.com. [Victories of Love] Reference
Shiny. phascolomian -- wombat-like arctian -- moth-like chelonian -- tortoise-like and of course saurian -- lizard-like. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
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