In short, it will cry no more, and have no further desire to kill you; and fleas are often encountered who die from pleasure at being thus converted to our holy religion.
Make a small trench under a bed, and pour goats' blood into it, and it will bring all the Fleas together, and it will allure those from your clothing.
Fleas infesting beds were attributed to the envy of the Devil.
When Ray and Willughby were traveling, they found "at Venice and Augsburg Fleas for sale, and at a small price too, decorated with steel or silver collars around their necks, of which Willughby purchased one.
During the winter of 1762, at Norwich, England, after a chilling storm of snow and wind that had destroyed many lives, myriads of Fleas were found skipping about on the snow.
Mr. Southey states that in Brazil "the Spaniards pulverize the nests of the Termites, and with the powder form a flooring for their houses, which becomes as hard as stone, and on which it is said no fleas or other insects will harbor.
The Hungarian shepherds grease their linen with hogs' lard, and thus render themselves so disgusting even to the Fleas and Lice, as to put them effectually to flight.
Clarke was informed by an Arab Sheikh that "the king of theFleas held his court at Tiberias.
I am told that there are some Indian Brahmins so very compassionate, that they hire beggars to let fleas feed upon them: I doubt whether it might not be better to let the fleas starve.
The remains of Articulate Animals are not very abundant in the Trias, if we except the bivalved cases of the little Water-fleas (Ostracoda), which are occasionally very plentiful.
Some of these are little double-shelled creatures, resembling our living water-fleas (Ostracoda).
As before said, they belong to the same great group as the living Water-fleas (Ostracoda).
The Water-fleas (Ostracoaa) are extremely abundant in the Carboniferous rocks, whole strata being often made up of little else than the little bivalved shells of these Crustaceans.
Thereupon Gilman incontinently left, and then the fleas with vicious vigor and voracity assaulted me.
Immediately Gilman insisted that we should change our apartment and go out on the prairies near a haystack; but I stubbornly insisted that, as the fleas had not bitten me, I would continue indoors.
But the sand fleas of the Platte are not easily discharged or diverted, from a fair and juicy victim.
The Indians must have taken the fleas with them when they moved to Oklahoma, for we seldom see one now.
He laughed merrily over the fleas and Douglas forgot all about her worries and laughed, too.
I sho' did want to turn the fleas loose on Minnie Brice but the big boys was afraid I might not be able to open the little purse right and so one of them done it.
An intolerable annoyance experienced in visiting the theatre at Lima is caused by the swarms of fleas which infest every part of the house, but most especially the boxes.
Fleas propagate in the sand in almost incredible multitudes, especially in the neighborhood of the Indian huts, and any person entering them is in a moment covered with hundreds of those tormentors.
I don't want dat houn' in dis house scratchin' his fleas all over de rooms.
I could sympathize with them; none of them could have had as manyfleas as I had, for their superficial area was not as great; but perhaps they had as many per square inch.
Some ten or a dozen natives were drinking and talking until nearly morning; and to my personal knowledge some ten or a dozen thousand fleas were doing the same.
In regard to fleas or lice on the young stock, a good wash in not too strong a solution of any of the standard tar products is usually perfectly effectual.
Some fleas carry the germs of plague, which a few centuries ago swept across Asia and Europe destroying hundreds of lives daily.
He went to bed with them, and just like fleas they would not let him sleep or get a moment's rest, and the broken stitches of his stockings helped them.
She would have to think of the presence of fleas while I thought of the absence of dinner.
There are fleas here," he said, "you must not stop any longer.
The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.
In a few moments the rooster was crowing with uncommon spirit and a party of fleas were throwing double somersaults about my person in the wildest disorder, and taking a bite every time they struck.
If he did no work on Sunday very likely the fleas would remain until Monday, the rat dying slowly and remaining warm and not in rigour mortuis.
But having had plague I did not trouble about the fleas that would leave his body when it grew stiff and cold, in search of food.
Some rub their ears and between their toes with a suffusion of bitter almonds steeped in water because flies, ticks and fleas usually develop sores in those parts, unless it is your practice to so anoint them.
Fleas and bugs not half so bad as in France, as far as my experience goes, and I have poked about in queer places.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fleas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
