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.

In reference to this, I remember the following passage, in a letter which he wrote to me many years after, when, on mentioning my ever dear and honoured friend the Rev. Dr. Watts, he says, "How often, in singing some of his psalms, hymns, or lyrics, on horseback and elsewhere, has the evil spirit been made to flee: "'Whene'er my heart in tune was found, 'Like David's harp of solemn sound!'

" As though God had said, "To deliver him up would be to recognize the right of the master to hold him; his fleeing shows his choiceproclaims his wrongs and his title to protection; you shall not force him back and thus recognize the right of the master to hold him in such a condition as induces him to flee to others for protection."

A prince was proclaimed emperor; he fled through western and southern China, continually trying to make a stand, but it was too late; without the support of the gentry he had no resource, and ultimately, in 1659, he was compelled to flee into Burma.

Very soon the reformers had to flee; those who failed to make good their escape were arrested and executed.

The Europeans captured Peking (1900); the dowager empress and her prisoner, the emperor, had to flee; some of the palaces were looted.

In the same spirit one of our Elizabethan poets delivered his wholesome advice: "Eschew the idle vein Flee, flee from doing nought!

In the same spirit one of our Elizabethan poets delivered his wholesome advice: "Eschew the idle vein Flee, flee from doing nought!

She stood transfixed, half-minded to flee, yet held by some pitying desire to help; then she saw him reach forward and grope his way uncertainly to the window.

But now it was her turn to flee.

The lone man turned, in mind to flee, but every entrance to the hall was closed, and at each portal stood a grinning Saracen.

When the appalling noise broke upon their ears the young man with Smith started to wheel his horse and flee.

Some of my neighbors buried their effects and prepared to flee.

That dark, stately band, Whose ancestors enjoyed all this fair land, Whence they, by force or fraud, were made to flee, Are brought, the white man's victory to see. Can kind emotions in their proud hearts glow, As through these realms, now decked by Art, they go?

Enough for him, in after-times, When he shall read these artless rhymes, If, looking back upon this day, With quiet conscience, he can say "I have in part redeem'd the pledge Of my Baptismal privilege; And more and more will strive to flee All which my Sponsors kind did then renounce for me.

Merely TO BE Is not a boon to seek, nor ill to flee, Seeing that every vilest little Thing Has it in common, from a gnat's small wing, A creeping worm, down to the moveless stone, And crumbling bark from trees.

GRAY But 'twas pleasanter, when the other saint Resist-the-devil- and-he-will-flee-from-thee Pure-man was overtaken in the act, to plead an illusio visûs, and maintain his sanctity upon a supposed power in the adversary to counterfeit the shapes of things.

Full day upon the plaindistances, contours, the great blooms of space; a swarm of bees, a constellation of suns; the traffic of ants among the dropped twigs of the sand, the communion of angels beyond the veils of heaven; the budding of a primrose, the resurrection of a Godand all for men, when the daybreak and the shadows flee away.

"But if you thus were strong to flee From sweet spells woven of moon and sea, Are you quite sure that you would reach, Without one backward look, the beach?"

The animal-plants sting like nettles; all the monsters without a shell flee from the poison of their tingling organs, and the fragments of their hair burn like pins of fire.

Even the bacteria and infusoria appear to flee from the liquid that envelops these ferocious solitudes.

Flee, Ferragut!....

The voice of good counsel,that prudent voice that always spoke in one-half of his brain whenever the captain found himself in difficult situations,had begun to cry out, scandalized at the first revelations made by this woman: "Flee, Ferragut!...

Were the sea-gull wings of the fishing-boats to flee panic-stricken before those gray sharks of steel!...

Thus was removed for all time the antagonism between labor and capital; thus were envy and class hatreds banished from society, and thus was our glorious Republic secured upon firm foundations, which will endure "until the final day breaks and all earthly shadows flee away.

Before I had gone twenty rods I warned them to flee and leave me.