catterpillar

Every extreme or just plain stupid thing will be flushed down the ol 'memri hole, and the press will greet the new Republican butterfly as if he had never been a catterpillar.

Election Central Debate Roundup 2009

It is like when he was with me he was a catterpillar and now he is a fully grown butterfly that everyone loves to see.

kindofmagic Diary Entry kindofmagic 2003

Anyhow, later on she wrote of him as 'a catterpillar which shall be swept out of the way. '

A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

A truly noble bird, whose legs had the genuine strut, whose eyes shone watchfully, and whose voice had a ring that evidently struck terror into the catterpillar's soul, if it was a catterpillar.

Eight Cousins Louisa May Alcott 1860

I observed here the ravages of the common grey catterpillar, so destructive to forest and fruit trees, in Pennsylvania, and through the northern states, by stripping them of their leaves, in the spring, while young and tender (Phalena periodica.) MR.

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. 1823

At length the canker worms have ceased and the catterpillar begins.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 25 April 1794 1794

With the year 4s, we made legs for the catterpillar, everyone made one and then we put their names on them and stored them somewhere where we could use them later on.

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Princess Beatrice runs the 2010 Virgin London Marathon as part of a 34 person human catterpillar.

Mirror.co.uk - News 2010

Football samwinn like a massive gay catterpillar turning into a beer drinking, football watching ....

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The butter - fly is produced from a catterpillar, which devours garden plants, and which, hav - ing moved for a feafon in its lowly nar - row fphere, falls into a ftate of torpid infenfibiiity.

Interesting Memoirs: By a Lady. In Two Volumes. ... 1785