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Definition of Flyblows
1. flyblow [v] - See also: flyblow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flyblows
Literary usage of Flyblows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the by John Ray, Edwin Lankester (1848)
"A third, to try whether insects will be bred in a beef's bladder so close that
no passage be left for any flyblows. And because flies may be said to have ..."
2. The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits edited by William Carew Hazlitt (1886)
"... flyblows an author's style, and picks out detached words and phrases for
cynical reprobation, simply because he feels himself at home, or takes a pride ..."
3. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1883)
"No vermin is more easily trapped than the cat; in summer, when rabbit-paunches
will not last, but get full of flyblows, a little valerian root will serve ..."
4. Labrador by William Brooks Cabot (1920)
"When we came back four or five days later, there were some small flyblows on it,
but no harm done. But we had had a very cold storm meanwhile, ..."
5. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1810)
"There was something like flyblows, but i can't say they «XT« fly-blows. Hanson.
My lord, I did not see them. [Then the people laughed.] . ..."
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