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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.
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But Brown declined to swat Clegg down like an irritating blue-bottle.
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But Brown declined to swat Clegg down like an irritating blue-bottle.
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The flies, her dress, they were the same blue-bottle color.
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The flies, her dress, they were the same blue-bottle color.
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Build me an ark, fill it with prairie moths, split-winged fritillaries, blue-bottle flies.
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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.
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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.
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Sorry, man — they're maggots, namely, blue-bottle fly larvae.
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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.
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