Word: swallowtail
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...geeminy, what a stir there is! What a calling of meetings! What an appointing of committees! What a furbishing up of swallowtail coats...
...beloved, this certificate of Honorary Member for Life. May you continue to give valuable service to our country through the years to come in shaping the highest and best of public policy." Charlie Bishop, who had celebrated his own 68th birthday a week before, stood up in his ancient swallowtail and gracefully accepted the tribute...
...Congressional appropriation financing U. S. Peace Commissioners for winding up the Spanish-American War, Mark Twain wisecracked in 1899: "At a public function in a European court all foreign representatives except ours wear clothes which in some way distinguish them. . . . But our representative appears in a plain black swallowtail. . . . It is found in all countries; it is as international as a nightshirt...
...sweet grass. The orange clover's scent resembles heliotrope. If a cloud obscures the sun it at once seeks a resting place, preferably on something yellow. It is very social. The cloudless clover smells of violets and musk, the cabbage butterfly of mignonette and sweet briar, the yellow swallowtail of "certain brands of honey biscuits." The milkweed butterfly has an odor like "the faint sweet fragrance of red clover blossoms." The female smells like a cockroach...
Butterflies are strong and brave. The milkweed has been seen 100 miles at sea. It flies 10 to 15 feet above the water at a speed of 20 m.p.h., always in a straight line. Mr. Clark says he once saw a blue swallowtail chasing an English sparrow...