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Flea-bite   Listen
noun
Flea-bite  n.  
1.
The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.
2.
A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea.





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"Flea-bite" Quotes from Famous Books



... recovered. As for flagellation, you have nothing to fear, and nothing to hope, on that head — There has been but one printer flogged at the cart's tail these thirty years; that was Charles Watson; and he assured me it was no more than a flea-bite. C— S— has been threatened several times by the House of L—; but it came to nothing. If an information should be moved for, and granted against you, as the editor of those Letters, I hope you will have honesty and wit enough to appear and take your trial — If you should be sentenced ...
— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett
... cut across the knuckles was a flea-bite. Dr. Livesey patched it up with plaster, and pulled my ears for me ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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