blue-bottle

• “And in the silence that followed, a blue-bottle fly buzzed rowdily against an adjacent window-pane, with occasional loud bumps against the glass tokening that he too had his tragedy, a prisoner pent by baffling transparency from the bright world that blazed so immediately beyond.”

  CHAPTER XX

• “But Brown declined to swat Clegg down like an irritating blue-bottle.”

  Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me

• “  The flies, her dress, they were the same blue-bottle color.”

  Fictionaut: Mother's Angels

• “The flies, her dress, they were the same blue-bottle color.”

  Fictionaut: Mother's Angels

• “Build me an ark, fill it with prairie moths, split-winged fritillaries, blue-bottle flies.”

  A Poem I Liked: Vex Me by Barbara Hamby

• “Now they come in droves like flies rap would be the blue-bottle species, with a similar degree of distinction; and they die out just as quickly.”

• “The blood ran into the ground, the brains oozed out of the cracked skull and were licked up by the trenchrats, the belly swelled and raised a generation of blue-bottle flies.”

  The body of an American / The lowlands of Holland

• “Sorry, man — they're maggots, namely, blue-bottle fly larvae.”

  Everything You Need to Know to Start Ice Fishing

• “Hungry I mean to a man who has known what absolute starvation is — when a man would thank God for a blue-bottle fly who had taken his own nip any where.”

  Erema

• “The flies that troubled me most were a large kind of blue-bottle or blow-fly.”

  The Malay Archipelago

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