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We have him, Watson, we have him, and I dare swear that before tomorrow night he will be fluttering in our net as helpless as one of his own butterflies.

From The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

"I've taken the depth to a fathom," he cried,   "And I'll sink with a right good will: For I know when we're all of us under the tide   My flag will be fluttering still."

From Collected Poems 1897 - 1907, by Henry Newbolt by Newbolt, Henry John, Sir