"butterfly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This is a pity: viewers reluctant to penetrate the Bronx will miss the best art - items like Philip Guston's preposterous pink-and-red butterfly perched on a mug in the same colors.
- Her eyes were made up with blue paint and gold leaf and her eyebrows had been twisted, and stiffened with wax to form long tapering points, giving the effect of a butterfly perched on her face.
- The lace securing her topknot looked like an enormous black butterfly perched on her head.
- She rose a little as she lost sight of Lily, then spotted her crouched down, examining a butterfly perched on a blade of grass.
- Euphemia stared at a vivid butterfly perched near her head.
- Me, Allukah, queen of the Horlas, a fragile butterfly perched on the edge of a daffodil?
- The common was peaceful and sunny; butterflies perched on thistle flowers and grasshoppers serenaded each other with their ceaseless cadences.
- In one of the notebooks was a paper cutout of a butterfly, believed to be the same butterfly perched on the poet's hand in a photograph of him taken in the 1870's, Mr. Kiffer said.
- I stood there looking at a fritillary butterfly perched on the golden-brown cushion of a purple coneflower, sipping nectar from the hundreds of tiny florets that make up each cone in the flower's center.
- I saw a little way ahead a brown and crimson butterfly perched upon a cornflower.
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