horse-flies

Walking quickly, we passed a family of nobles on their doorstep, one atop the other, horse-flies swarming near a handsome man's face.

Mother's Angels 2009

Walking quickly, we passed a family of nobles on their doorstep, one atop the other, horse-flies swarming near a handsome man's face.

Mother's Angels 2009

The foes are stirring again, as horse-flies and hornets become busy so soon as the storm-blast is over.

The Abbot 2008

It floated on the surface of the water, penetrated into our clothes, hair, eyes, and ears, our provisions were covered over with it, and our blankets half buried when we lay down at nights, — it was a perpetual and never-ceasing torment, and as if to increase our miseries we were again afflicted with swarms of large horse-flies, which bit us dreadfully.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

It is a dreary region, which man dearly disputes with tipulae, gnats, mosquitos, horse-flies, and millions of microscopic insects which are not visible to the naked eye; but, although they are not seen, they make themselves felt by their intolerable stinging, to which the most callous Siberian hunters have never been able to inure themselves.

Michael Strogoff 2003

Murphy and Junor, the pilots, settled down to the horse-flies which gambolled in the air about their juiciness.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Both of us were batting away horse-flies and other unpleasant swarming insects.

Cat & Mouse Patterson, James 1997

But once, when some tests hung over our heads, a group of boys evaded them entirely by stinging our hands with horse-flies.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

He knew how the house-fly passes its early stages in a dung-hill, and how the grubs of the big horse-flies and Tabanids live in decayed wood; how certain little flies or gnats are engendered (as he calls it) in the slime of vinegar.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

We have no beds open yet; the hospital is still being got on with; our site is said to be on a swamp between a Remount Camp and a Veterinary Camp, so we shall do well in horse-flies.

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous