"Moths round a candle," said the doctor.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
Our riflemen and light infantry did not break before this advancing furnace, but fired into the heart of it, and saw some of the "flammenwerfer" men go up in their own flame like Moths bursting in the light of a candle with loud reports, "a loud pop" as the men describe it, so that nothing of them was left but a little smoke and a few cinders.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
And yet- Herr Dremmel's laboratory windows were open, for the evening was heavy and quiet, and they could see him in the lamplight, with disregarded Moths fluttering round his head, bent over his work.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim