“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”
Stephen King book Bag of Bones
Source: Bag of Bones
“In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose,
Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?”
"The Blind Girl"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
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Saftly she goes,
Dark broon een like velvet,
Cheeks like the rose.”
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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist
"Creation by law". Quarterly Journal of Science 4: 470–488 (1867); The hawkmoth of Madagascar was later found and described in 1903, under the taxon name praedicta in reference to Wallace's quote.
Context: I have carefully measured the proboscis of a specimen of [Neococytius] cluentius from South America in the collection of the British Museum, and find it to be nine inches and a quarter long! One from tropical Africa ([Xanthopan] morganii) is seven inches and a half. A species having a proboscis two or three inches longer could reach the nectar in the largest flowers of Angræcum sesquipedale, whose nectaries vary in length from ten to fourteen inches. That such a moth exists in Madagascar may be safely predicted; and naturalists who visit that island should search for it with as much confidence as astronomers searched for the planet Neptune - and they will be equally successful!
“We bring roses, beautiful fresh roses,
Dewy as the morning and colored like the dawn.”
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The new pastoral Book.
“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
"Chaucer," http://books.google.com/books?id=LOdNAAAAcAAJ&q=%22The+question+of+common+sense+is+always+what+is+it+good+for+a+question+which+would+abolish+the+rose+and+be+answered+triumphantly+by+the+cabbage%22&pg=PA185#v=onepage North American Review (July 1870) http://books.google.com/books?id=sAVaov3zePMC&q=%22The+question+of+common+sense+is+always+what+is+it+good+for+a+question+which+would+abolish+the+rose+and+be+answered+triumphantly+by+the+cabbage%22&pg=PA173#v=onepage <br class="br">My Study Windows (1871)
Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) American actor and film producer
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