She was noticing the feather flies with which I caught the fish, and blamed me for using them.
The swallowflies faster than the Eagle," said the chief, "but where is his strength?
If even a dead one is presented to a young ferret, although he have never seen a rabbit before, he flies at and tears it with fury; but if it be alive, he seizes it by the nose or throat, and sucks its blood.
The paynim shafts buzzed over him; to flies he would have paid greater heed.
Like flies the Turks had scattered; like flies they returned, new hordes making good all loss.
Be sure to select a dry place for your camp, and if you are to stay for any time take care to keep it scrupulously clean, burning every scrap that might attract flies or the smaller wild animals, or might make a stench.
This is of every variety, from the bent pin fastened to a string, and the string fastened to a stick, which most of us began with, up to the elaborate and costly rods, reels and flies of the wealthy sportsmen.
Boys, as a rule, prefer to fish with bait, leaving artificial flies to the seniors.
For the dome was full of fire-flies brought hither in the flowers; full of a causeless glimpsing of pale green fire showing every instant the white heart of some blossom.
The unnatural hollows of the temples emphasised the unnatural prominence of the closed eyelids, round whose ragged margin of clogged lashes the flies settled in clusters.
And, believe, it flies the force of man To rescue thy head from the dogs.
Let him go, no more experience Will his mind long for of my hands, he flies them now so clear.
I remember one fellow who prided himself hugely upon a great oblong patch, placed high upon his back, and who always reminded me of a man with a blister of Spanish flies stuck between his shoulders.
He put me in mind of a choleric fellow, who, after trying in vain to communicate a secret to a deaf man, all at once flies into a passion and screams it out so that every one may hear.
Places infected with flies and other insects, overrun with rats, and the effluvia of which is easily noticeable at a distance of half a mile, are not uncommon and suggest their own condemnation.
The feet of the flies are suction tubes, and when a fly lights on any object, it causes more or less of that material to stick to his feet, and then when he flies elsewhere, he may leave the particles on the object on which he alights.
A little while more, and swish, swish, swish, the Lion himself came stalking slowly along, whisking away the flies with his tail.
They shout aloud as he flies past them, the long stride of the chestnut skimming over the ground, and spattering fragments of torn grass and ploughed-up earth about him as he goes.
There's noflies to be had at this time of night, miss," he said, civilly enough.
He went to his doom as the foolish moth flies to the candle.
True hope is swift and flieswith swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
When he opens his purse to give us our reward, thy conscience flies out.
I ain't one o' the fellers that fan flies off'n 'em at meetin'.
If they draw flies an' gnats that's the'r lookout, not mine.
The piano in Bezuquet's shop mouldered away under a green fungus, and the Spanish flies dried upon it, belly up.
Then there were dogs, scorpions, ravens, and flies--rather flies than anything else.
In the intervals of the yards and booms, what seemed swarms of flies prettily spotted the blue sky.
He usually sees to it that the play goes on properly, and that no one goes astray or flies away; but if one ever gets too far away from the gate, then he whistles on his golden key, which means 'Back!
If the insect flies away, the good weather will come; if not, there will be rain.
He then takes it up and shoots again, and flies on swifter than the arrow.
As an albatross hovers and flies With the running sea.
All men at last a rattling empty pod, All men destroyed like flies for sport of God.
He helped the ants with their heavy loads, the field-mice with their small harvesting, and chasedflies from the patient cows feeding in the fields.
Put up your stings and shake hands, before he flies away to hide from you again.
Take me a little farther, and then you shall have the honey," said wise Bud, who was anxious to get on, and saw that the lazy flies would leave her as soon as her provisions were gone.
The little singing birdflies hither and thither, to the poor fisherman, to the peasant's hut, to many who live far from your Court.
The diddler himself fliesto her assistance, and, giving his friend a comfortable thrashing, insists upon attending the lady to her own door.
Entre nous, I esteem their writings as little as I do artificial flies; but they are the artificial flies at which, in this particular season of the year, the public rise.
Nay, I met a distinguished naturalist in America who maintained that we shall find fliesand spiders in the next world.
Flies will be flies, and spiders, spiders, till the earth is destroyed by a comet.
Involuntarily all heads were turned in this new direction, and it was seen that one of the Stanton station-flies had come to a stand-still just opposite the assembled people, and that a lady and gentleman were hastily alighting.
The flies that infest cattle know so well how to select the most vigorous and healthiest beasts, that cattle-dealers and tanners place entire dependence upon them, and prefer those beasts and hides that are most scarred by maggots.
Wherever I looked there were flies and flies and flies.
