butterfly-net

In that impassive, colourless man, with his straw hat and his butterfly-net, I seemed to see something terrible -- a creature of infinite patience and craft, with a smiling face and a murderous heart.

The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

The sport pits four-rider teams against each other in a contest to fling a ball, rigged up with six leather handles, into a tall, butterfly-net shaped goal.

In Soccer-Mad Argentina, the National Sport Is a Lame Duck 2010

A tin box for botanical specimens hung over his shoulder and he carried a green butterfly-net in one of his hands.

The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

When I found that the best bait or fly caught only half a dozen trout in an afternoon, -- and those the dull, black, California kind, with lined sides, but no spots, -- I gave over bothering the unambitious burghers of the flood with invitations to a rise in life, and took to the meadows with a butterfly-net.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

Naddo will doubtless tell us that this poem is not built broadly on the human heart; there is too much discussion about the difficulty of becoming a Christian, and the subtile genius flits so quickly through the lines that an ordinary butterfly-net does not catch it.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

In that impassive colourless man, with his straw hat and his butterfly-net, I seemed to see something terrible -- a creature of infinite patience and craft, with a smiling face and a murderous heart.

The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

A tin box for botanical specimens hung over his shoulder and he carried a green butterfly-net in one of his hands.

The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

A tin box for botanical specimens hung over his shoulder and he carried a green butterfly-net in one of his hands.

The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

In that impassive colourless man, with his straw hat and his butterfly-net, I seemed to see something terrible -- a creature of infinite patience and craft, with a smiling face and a murderous heart.

The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

A tin box for botanical specimens hung over his shoulder and he carried a green butterfly-net in one of his hands.

The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926