sand-fly

I had been bitten by some sort of sand-fly; but at that, I shook my head, and told him of my dream, and after that, he was as anxious to keep near me as I to him.

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 2007

Mariam watched them cantering uninhibited down the street, sometimes with a man, sometimes alone, sometimes with rosy-cheeked children who wore shiny shoes and watches with leather bands, who walked bicycles with high-rise handlebars and gold-colored spokes-unlike the children in Deh-Mazang, who bore sand-fly scars on their cheeks and rolled old bicycle tires with sticks.

A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

After living there a long while they began to be plagued with swarms of a kind of gnat called the sand-fly, which bit the children, causing them to swell up and die.

A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 Cosmos Mindeleff

Obviously I didn't disclose my foolishness to the MO and so I was diagnosed as having sand-fly fever, that good old stand-by when they didn't know what was really wrong with you and I was sent to hospital.

Coming of Age: 1939-1946 John Cox

His leg was a mass of old scars made by the constant scratching of sand-fly and mosquito bites during the first weeks of our expedition.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

The typhoid began in earnest later on, as well as sand-fly fever.

In Mesopotamia Maurice Nicoll 1918

They give rise to a malady known as sand-fly fever, which is like influenza and drains the body of all vitality for many days.

In Mesopotamia Maurice Nicoll 1918

As regards opium, it was useful, apart from sand-fly fever, in those frayed, sleepless states of mind that prolonged heat induces.

In Mesopotamia Maurice Nicoll 1918

Another sickness of the hot season which now began to claim less victims was sand-fly fever.

War in the Garden of Eden Kermit Roosevelt 1916

I would never again go into mosquito or sand-fly country without it.

VIII. The River of Doubt 1914