fleabite

• “I am not interested in your provincial attempts to diminish and enclose the question to a fleabite.”

  Whose Hand Have You Refused to Shake?

• “About how terrific everything smelled this minute, and how great that scratch behind the ear felt on a fleabite.”

  Simon & Schuster: Night World No. 1

• “And I tried to make her feel a fleabite on her ankle.”

  Lord of Chaos

• “And then, still in a reasonable voice, "I've never found it necessary, Dr. Quental, to seek medical aid for a fleabite.”

  River Of Desire

• “His most towering rage, controlled only by supreme expenditures of effort, was met with no more reaction than the bite of a flea; less, for a fleabite is at least scratched.”

  The Clan of the Cave Bear

• “I had paid six hundred pounds for one and four hundred and fifty for the other; they were a fleabite in the total value of my aeroplanes, and both of them were pretty well written down in the accounts.”

  ROUND THE BEND

• “It was a fleabite to them apparently, but it was the hell of a lot of money to me.”

  ROUND THE BEND

• “The water problem is still unsolved, and we get very thirsty; but thirst is a small fleabite, after all.”

  Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front

• “It is eighty miles third-class and more; it is thirty or less first-class; it is a flash in a train _de luxe, _ and a mere fleabite as a bribe to a journalist.”

  The Path to Rome

• “It thus appears that even the proverbially trivial fleabite may at times prove a serious injury.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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