Little yellow-winger butterflies hovered over them.

Nearby, a parrot perches on a ring; two butterflies hover above it, a smaller bird is poised atop her chair, a smirky black cat nestles next to her very full skirt.

The butterfly hovered above his face.

A gorgeous butterfly sailed in, hovered above the crowded plate a moment, then settled comfortably beside its companions and examined the blob of cream.

A primrose-and-black butterfly, a swallowtail, hovered over the bougainvillaea round the Priapus arbour; found no honey, and glided away through the trees.

Several clumps of the winter-blooming hardy Cyclamen coum add their elegant touch of flowers like tiny butterflies, some pink, some white, hovering above heart-shaped leaves.

She was exactly the same as ever, and the same immortal butterflies hovered over her cap.

No birds sang there, no butterflies hovered, though we saw several snakes.

No butterflies hovered over the small pots of sand scattered round the garden.

Now, only mosquitoes and butterflies hover over the runway, but in the 1980's cargo planes constantly swooped into this valley with supplies for the American-backed contra rebels fighting Nicaragua's Government just over the mountains to the south.