croesus

• “One species, Ornithoptera croesus (EN), which is endemic to the northern Moluccas, has a wingspan of nearly 20 centimeters in females.”

  Biological diversity in Wallacea

• “I have it on reliable authority that middle class guy is actually richer than croesus.”

  Obama's big night: "We won North, we won South, we won in between."

• “I had decided to return to Ternate in a week or two more, but this grand capture determined me to stay on till I obtained a good series of the new butterfly, which I have since named Ornithoptera croesus.”

  The Malay Archipelago

• “As the necessity for certain services required by the whole area became more and more pressing, the City of Toronto sat at the centre of this dynamic area, rich as croesus, and well able to provide its residents with the municipal services they required.”

  Metro—Past, Present and Future

• “Describing his first sight of the _Ornithoptera croesus_, he says that the blood rushed to his head and he felt much more like fainting than he had done when in apprehension of immediate death; a similar sensation being experienced when he came across another large bird-winged butterfly, _Ornithoptera poseidon_.”

  Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1

• “Ornithoptera croesus, he says that the blood rushed to his head and he felt much more like fainting than he had done when in apprehension of immediate death; a similar sensation being experienced when he came across another large bird-winged butterfly, Ornithoptera poseidon.”

  Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences

• “There were a lot of the props of San Francisco society, all as rich as croesus, sitting on the veranda crocheting socks or sacks for a crop of new babies that are due.”

  The Avalanche

• “It was not when Wallace saw the Ornithoptera croesus flying about, but only when he held it in his hands, and opened its glorious wings, that the sight of its beauty overcame him so powerfully.”

  The Naturalist in La Plata

• “PTERIS croesus, f P. fiondibus pinnatis, pinnis crenatis, infimis bipartitis pinnatitidis, soris argenteis.”

  Internet Archive: Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas

• “enigmaticcore: I have it on reliable authority that middle class guy is actually richer than croesus.”

  Obama's big night: "We won North, we won South, we won in between."

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