"Horsefly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the lady, dad,' said Jendrek; 'she is just like a horsefly, yellow with black spots, and thin in the waist ...
— Selected Polish Tales • Various
... as mad as a horsefly that's been slapped off. He says there is no will. But he doesn't really know. He's zooning around wondering if he'll be able to light again on the flanks ...
— The Co-Citizens • Corra Harris
... well," replied Sampson, flicking at a horsefly on the sorrel's back, "an' Jim, he's well en buried. Marse Tom sot up er boa'd des' like ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... be right scarce and he haster be kinder sparing with them. I calculate you'd like to have a hatful of them balls, leastwise most folks would; cause the Wild Hunter don't use no common low-flung lead for his bullets, no-sir-ree bob-horsefly! Tain't good 'nuff for a high-cock-alorum like him—he shoots balls ...
— The Black Wolf Pack • Dan Beard
... balancers of a horsefly be removed, the insect at once loses its equilibrium; it cannot direct its flight, but plunges headlong to the ground. The same can be said of Chrysops niger—in fact, of the entire family of Tabanidae, of the gall gnat (Diplosis ...
— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir |
