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Meanings of yellow butterflies in English

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Usage of yellow butterflies in English
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Small yellow butterflies hovered amid the topmost branches of this underfoot forest.
Prisoners: Fast Bound In Misery And Iron
2
White butterflies appear to prefer white flowers, and yellow butterflies yellow flowers.
Chatterbox, 1905.
3
She bounded about in the sun and chased the blue and yellow butterflies.
The Trail Book
4
The warm air trembled, and yellow butterflies fluttered up and down in couples.
Dame Care
5
Magda filled her chair, filled her dress, which crawled with thumbnail-sized yellow butterflies.
Flesh and blood
6
The rocks wore vines of crimson, and goldenrod was full of bees and yellow butterflies.
The Witness
7
Brown and yellow butterflies are sown and carried away again by the light air-like thistledown.
Essays of Travel
8
They fleeted by, like a passing of yellow butterflies, and the sea was void again.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series
9
The great yellow butterflies drifted silently through the sunshine and lost themselves in the drowsy shadows.
Love of Life, and Other Stories
10
I have had two clouded yellow butterflies visit my garden on two days in late August.
The Irish Times
11
His gaze lowered to her turquoise nylon shirt with the big green-and- yellow butterflies on each breast.
It Must Be Love
12
Look at those yellow butterflies above the flowers!
Max
13
Amongst them were a few yellow butterflies, but these were not so numerous as in former years.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua
14
Swarms of yellow butterflies rose, and settled to rise again in short flights before Reshid's half-closed eyes.
Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
15
And did you see the yellow butterflies?
The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and C...
16
She pointed one dainty finger at a cloud of pale yellow butterflies in the field beside which they were walking.
The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
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