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.

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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.

Mother's Angels

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

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.

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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.

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

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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