367 examples of flea in sentences

I bowed and the audience cheered, and I stood on my hands and scratched at an imaginary flea, and pa, who was leaning against the platform, whispered to me that I was making the hit of the season.

For fights are few, and, in this thick bush country, frequently degenerate into blind firing into a blinder bush; but the "jigger" flea is with the soldier always.

At the end of eight-and-forty hours from the occurrence of the rigor (in the majority of cases), the eruption comes out; and shows itself first on the face and neck in minute flea-bite spots.

" "Oh, Adam!" "Lord love you, Miss Anthea!that weren't nothing,that were only a flea-bite, as you might say,he give moreah!

You just watch him like he's watching you, Mr. Mershone, and if anything happens you skip as lively as a flea.

"Flay" is usually, if not always, written "flea" in old authors.

And here I think it were not amiss to take a particular how he is accoutred, and so do by him as he in his Siquis for the wall-eyed mare, or the crop flea-bitten, give you the marks of the beast.

But that is no reason why a man should indulge in fretful complaints, and, like Beresford, pull a long face over the Miseries of Human Life,and not a single hour is free from them; or still less, call upon the Deity at every flea-bitein pulicis morsu Deum invocare.

The devils are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark pooly places, ready to hurt and prejudice people, &c. "The angel's like a flea, The devil is a bore;" No matter for that!

The less flea that bites little fleas!

"The less flea."

Remembering Swift's lines in "On Poetry, a Rhapsody": So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

But the shadowy nature of the observer fails to give to the necessarily disconnected incidents even the slight unity possible in the adventures of a lap-dog, a cat, a mouse, a flea, or a guinea.

There was something rather disturbing in the dry, quizzical smile that I encountered and the reflection that I had been under observation, and I felt as much embarrassed as I should suppose a self-conscious water-flea might feel on finding itself on the illuminated stage of a binocular microscope.

A true believer will not harm an insect, not even a mosquito or a flea.

One popular story is that when a flea lights upon the body of a Jain he captures it carefully, puts it in a receptacle and sends it to an asylum where fat coolies are hired to sit around all day and night and allow fleas, mosquitoes and other insects to feed upon them.

They believe in peace, and are so tender-hearted that they will not even kill a mosquito or a flea.

"Of course, it was the pison, Sir,a baby like that wouldn't harm a flea.

"Who was that son of a flea?...

Who was that son of a flea daring to doubt what I myself have seen?..."

The steel flea.

The steel flea.

SEE MEIER, NORMAN C. The steel flea.

The steel flea.

There was some kind of an animal inside my shirt, and one that made a mosquito, black-fly, or flea seem tame.

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