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Meanings of white moth in English

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Usage of white moth in English
1
A white moth caught fluttering in the ray of the torch.
The Thing from the Lake
2
And just behind them came a big white moth, booming and whirring softly.
A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
3
A white moth fluttered round the lamp and fell down on the tablecloth.
Laughter in the dark
4
A large white moth floated suddenly in and began to beat itself against the lamp-shade.
The Lamp in the Desert
5
She flitted from his presence like a fluttering white moth, and he was left alone.
Greatheart
6
A white moth had landed on her face.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
7
The white moth is us, Baas, who are caught in the web and going to be eaten.
Allan and the Holy Flower
8
A cricket chirped just outside the window and a ghostly white moth circled around the evening lamp.
Flower of the Dusk
9
A large white moth sailed out of the darkness to the lit window, but his presence scared it away.
Audrey
10
He looked at the white moth also, and thought that he had never seen one at all like it.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
11
They were as meaningless as the wind that brought them, or the whirring of the white moth at the window.
One Man in His Time
12
He wore white , and amid the throng of black-clad men was like a white moth among a horde of beetles.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910
13
All that was left of the white moth lay on the altar-cloth, among the fruit at the base of the tallest candlestick.
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
14
Clara reached up and poked with her riding-whip at a white moth that was fluttering in the sunlight among the vine leaves.
The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories
15
And when the preacher was just making up his mind to close the discourse, a large white moth fluttered in at the west door.
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
16
He had thought of her as a little blue butterfly-shewas more like a wee white moth, fluttering, fluttering...
Judith of Blue Lake Ranch
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