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Would they not soon burst from the grovelling crysalis; and, spreading out the wings of the soul, go abroad in the glad sun-shine, inhaling the pure air of liberty?
Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge Frances Harriet 1838
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That there may be no confusion with regard to the place where the objects and notes are deposited, it would be for the person who sends them to verify all the numbers and arrange them in such a manner that they form a series, so that it may be certain that such a butterfly belongs to such a crysalis, such a shell-fish to such a shell.
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We urge travellers, likewise, to look for cheniles and the other larvæ, and to preserve some of them alive, in order to obtain a perfect insect, or, at least, a crysalis.
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Stand-out passages include a boy jumping grandly about the stage before extending his arms out like wings and then folding them about himself as if forming a crysalis; a girl and two boys, lowering themselves together towards the floor like retracting peacock's feathers; a quartet of dancers gambolling about the stage with one arm raised like an antenna or a tail.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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I may yet emerge from my first life crysalis to face the second stage, but for the time being it’s quite nice in here.
I quite like the first life, thank you very much « Imaginary Potential 2008
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I may yet emerge from my first life crysalis to face the second stage, but for the time being it’s quite nice in here.
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