Piqui means "flea"; llacta means "town, city, country, district, or territory."

This may not kill the fleas, but it drives them off.

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

It is important, too, that no scraps of rejected food or bones should be left lying about to become putrid or to tempt the visits of rats, which bring fleas.

"I knew a flea once, who" "They had a regular form of procedure," continued Mr. Tutt, brushing the flea aside, "which was adhered to with the utmost technical accuracy.

Another army officer said: "Catching Filipino outlaws with the Army is like catching a flea in a twenty-acre field with a traction engine.

The gentlemen and ladies At court were sore distressed; The queen and all her maidens Were bitten by the pest, And yet they dared not scratch them Or chase the fleas away.

The camp contains no fleas, lice, or bugs.

"He is capable of crushing a flea on his arm," the sailors of his village used to boast when trying to emphasize the hardness of his biceps.

Then was I in my dead sleepe, cursing the fleas.

He adds, that he destroyed the fleas of his puppies by once bathing them in warm water impregnated with oil of turpentine.

The room, although it was dirty, was cheerful; for the sunshine streamed in through the open window, and the view of the green valley beneath and the woods beyond soon drove the fleas out of mind.

'Oh, bast!' observed her husband; 'monsieur in his travels has doubtless already encountered a flea or two.' 'Yes, and other bestioles,' said I. Madame's local knowledge did not deceive her, but her expression 'a few fleas' did not at all represent the true state of affairs.

I turned in with a feeling of relief not easily imagined, and forgave the fleas willingly, in the comfort of a shelter from the storm.

"Why," he said, "for the first time for twenty years we ain't got no performing fleas down here."

" "What did he rub for?" "I thought he'd got a flea.

"I knew a flea once, who" "They had a regular form of procedure," continued Mr. Tutt, brushing the flea aside, "which was adhered to with the utmost technical accuracy.

I have occasionally observed him even eating Sequoia seeds and nibbling a troublesome flea, without ceasing or in any way confusing his "Pee-ah! pee-ah!"

There is not a single one of us who does not think that he understands everything, from strategy to picking the fleas off a dog, better than professionals who have devoted their lives to it.

As the ear-wax in animals seems to be in part designed to prevent fleas and other insects from getting into their ears.

He was a "fundi" at taking out jiggers, and sat for hours at the feet of our foot-soldiers; quickly adopting an air of authority that occasionally brought him swift blows from East African troopers, who do not tolerate easily such airs in a native, he produced the unbroken jigger flea with unfailing regularity and prescribed the pail of disinfectant in which the tortured feet were soaked.

design'd As gifts to pleasure human kind; I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!' 'Not of the importance you suppose,' Replies a flea upon his nose.

Three times in the night I went out to shake the fleas from my clothing in the cold night air, and when the first daylight came we turned out and made our way back to Ragusa.

A British official assured me they were "good blokes" and an Armenian told me they could skin fleas for their hides and tallow; but the Armenian was wearing a good suit, and eating good food, which he admitted had been given to him by the American Colony.

But as you’d be dozing off to sleep a flea will wake you up, Which makes you curse the vermin in the old bark hut.