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Meanings of great moth in English

We have no meanings for "great moth" in our records yet.
Usage of great moth in English
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Next morning I met with a disagreeable surprise: I found the little Mantis devouring the great moth.
Social Life in the Insect World
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Only a great moth, that had fluttered inside the lamp chimney thudded heavily from side to side.
A Village Ophelia and Other Stories
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A humming filled the room; the great moth darted hither and thither, beating, buzzing, on ceiling and wall.
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
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A great moth beat to and fro and dashed itself madly against the ceiling, the walls, the glass bookcase.
The terror
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A great moth had singed its wings in the lamp, and was fluttering to the ground-itwas still in mid-air.
The Ghost Kings
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With a view to mating, the sole end of its life, the great moth is endowed with a marvellous prerogative.
Social Life in the Insect World
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He was quite still and dead, so still that a great moth had settled on his forehead, fluttering away when they lifted him up.
The terror
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A great moth goes humming by me; it alights on a plant at Mr. Rochester's foot: he sees it, and bends to examine it.
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
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They had come down near where their fires had brought the great moth to them, at the base of the foothills of the Tornos range.
Empire in black and gold
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The madman was Mohuho, whose name means Great Moth of the Night.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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Great moths, pale and sphinx-like, fluttered about the flowers, with a little whirring sound.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
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The madman Great Moth of the Night; story of the famine and the one family that ate pig
White Shadows in the South Seas
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Arthur read it and handed it to me, while the great moths and transparent delicate flies came and blundered against it.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge ...
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Through the cool, dark depths where the forest monarchs had been untouched by the woodsmen, great moths winged their lazy flight.
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret
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"See what a great moth the hawk has in his bill," cried an owl that they passed.
The Story-teller
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