| France shipped boatloads of demoiselles bien choisies, or filles du roi, to raise the numbers and help settle New France. |
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| Summer brings sudden sights of the bright red cardinal beetles and banded demoiselles throng the riverbank. |
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| As we neared the bow, schools of blue maomao, sweepers and demoiselles gradually thickened. |
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| The goddess, clad in a diaphanous robe, overawes the medieval demoiselles who have gathered to admire their reflections in a mountain pool. |
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| Dozens of demoiselles hovered, waiting for the combfish to remove their parasites while the goatfish below seemed oblivious to the free grooming services available. |
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| Cape Brett, where you find the famous Hole in the Rock, is a nice scenic dive with huge shoals of demoiselles, blue maomao, koheru and the odd eagle ray. |
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| Every inch is taken up by plants and animals in a riot of colour, a living mosaic over which patrol vividly coloured wrasse and dense shoals of demoiselles and blue maomao. |
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| Beautiful demoiselles bounce above streamside vegetation like iridescent yo-yos. |
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| Unlike Versailles, where the splendid vista of palace and park can be taken in with a single, sweeping glance, the gardens of Suzhou are hidden behind narrow streets like demoiselles in a boudoir. |
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| He saw Picasso's Demoiselles d' Avignon in the artist's studio in 1907, and soon began carving heads with elongated faces, long thin noses, slitty eyes and tiny mouths. |
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| Les Demoiselles d'Avignon are the raunchy daughters of Burne-Jones' wan succubae. |
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