Flies

Examples

• In the periodical publications of June, 1914, may be read the eloquent announcement: Langley's Folly Flies. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You would be amazed to hear how my brother, Mr. Suckling, sometimes flies about. Jane Austen. Emma.
• When he leaves go of his hat to use his telescope, his hat flies off, with immense applause. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Hunted, she flies. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• At the opening of one of the bottles, at the house of a friend where I then was, three drowned flies fell into the first glass that was filled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Time flies; it's getting on for one o'clock. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The crow flies straight across Chancery Lane and Lincoln's Inn Garden into Lincoln's Inn Fields. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I have seen an instance of common flies preserved in a manner somewhat similar. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• With the flies a falling into the gallipots by fifties! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The buzz of the great flies was loud again. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She flies from him at last, returns to England, changes her name, and starts her life, as she thinks, afresh. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The flies were happy, the child was contented, and so the mother did not interfere. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• When I have spun the web they may take the flies, but not before. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mind that dog, sir, said the groom; he flies at everybody! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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