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.

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

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