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I lingered around them, under the benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

— 1925  The Great Gatsby, ch.3.

Tags: blue, gardens, men, girls, whisperings, champagne, stars, Gatsby, great

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Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.


— 1910  Literary Lapses,'A Manual of Education'.

Tags: Electricity, two, kinds, positive, negative, difference, presume, one, little

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Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name.

james thomson

— James Thomson, Liberty, Part IV, line 609.

Tags: Slander, silly, eat, honest, name

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Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

lord byron

— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I (1812), Stanza 9.

Tags: Maidens, caught, glare, Mammon, wins, seraphs, despair

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Please, take care of my beautiful moths.


— Who: Oscar Botcherby
— Source: The Two Doctors: Episode 3 (1985)
— Notes: .

Tags: care, beautiful

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Unfading moths, immortal flies, And the worm that never dies. And in that heaven of all their wish, There shall be no more land, say fish.


— 1915  'Heaven'.

Tags: immortal, flies, worm, never, dies, heaven, wish, There, more

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