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Definition of Fly on
1. Verb. Continue flying.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fly On
Literary usage of Fly on
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, George Washington Bethune (1847)
"A tail, end, or stretcher fly, on a No. 4 (Limerick) hook. Body, light slat*
drab, wound with the smallest ... For a tail-fly on No. 5, for a drop on No. b. ..."
2. The Bookman (1908)
"THE fly on THE WHEEL* BY KATHERINE CECIL THURSTON CHAPTER XXVI EARLY an hour
after the car had sped silently down the Kilmeaden Avenue, Daisy-—placid, ..."
3. The Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe (1803)
"One of his first essays, when he began to study under Cimabue, was to paint a
fly on the nose of one of his master's portraits, which the deluded artist ..."
4. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1908)
"I 'm only a fly on the wheel. 7 do n't have to bring it about. ... But I know I
am a fly on the wheel. Victor Berger does n't. ..."
5. ... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons by Adolphus Frederick Schauffler (1888)
"A fly on the cathedral pillar. (111.) Agassiz dining with Oken. (111.) . Agony in
the Garden of Gethsemane 299 296 79 A greater than Solomon is here 327 I51 ..."
6. Recollections of fly fishing for salmon, trout and grayling, with notes on by Edward Hamilton (1884)
"The water meadows had been flooded, and the small canals down each meadow were
full of fish, taking the May fly. On the main river were two fly- fishers, ..."
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