Example Sentences

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When she had showed Shay her pretty morphos, Tally had mentioned how she always started by doubling her left side—that she had always hated the right side of her face.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

Or one of the morphos would flicker among those spectral bastions, aerial and bright as a fairy in Hades.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

As we climbed the tree, to cross upon it, we disturbed several morphos.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

Afterwards I saw many of them; sometimes when walking the forest there would be morphos always in sight.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

We did not see a movement, except when the morphos started from the uprooted tree.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)