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  • There were two cabaret accordion performers, Susan Hwang, a tall, longlegged brunette who sang oddly amusing love songs about zombies and bed-bugs that she'd herself composed; followed by Phoebe Legere, that chic, gorgeous and very funny Vasser blonde whom Liz Smith once described as "the new Bobby Short."

    Richard Z. Chesnoff: Downtown With Weimar-New York 2010

  • Hecklerspray's tip for the day: try not to book hotels online using hotel review websites – specifically for Parisian hotels – because if you believe the sites, every single hotel has no electricity, an infestation of bed-bugs and is next to a noisy brothel.

    SLACKERJACK – Jane’s Hotel Family Hero 2007

  • IT WAS AS if I had been attacked during the night by a battalion of bed-bugs.

    A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003

  • IT WAS AS if I had been attacked during the night by a battalion of bed-bugs.

    A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003

  • Current Music: crown me king- "don't let the bed-bugs bite"3 gunslingers | crown me king

    mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2002

  • You got just as many bed-bugs and chinches as anybody else, don't come trying to hand me dat rough package bout yo 'house so clean.

    De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Zora Neale Hurston

  • Sometimes bed-bugs are brought in the cleanest houses before the family are aware of it.

    Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

  • The tidy housewife usually places the ant in the same category with cockroaches and bed-bugs and the corn growers attribute much of the injury to young corn to the work of the small cornfield ant which acts as a shepherd of the corn root-louse.

    An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman

  • It concerns a bed-bug trap which he invented, and which he described as a paper pocket which is placed in the bed and scented with oil of pine so as to attract the bed-bugs.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

  • Yeah, but I done seen de bed-bugs munchin 'out yo' house in de mornin ', keepin' step just like soldiers drillin '.

    De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Zora Neale Hurston

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