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Sentences ending with flies

From time to time I was roused into admiration of the horsemanship of Madame la Vicomtesse, for the restive Texas pony which she rode was stung to madness by the flies. [9]
They kennel together, three families in a room, in unimaginable filth and stench; and disease comes, and they die off like flies. [5]
And they train them, and pet them, and learn them tricks, and they get to be as sociable as flies. [5]
They are all stalls here; nobody has a box except Boldrick, and it is up in the flies. [11]
The old fools seem to be as thick as flies. [8]
Horses stamping on pavement to get off flies. [6]
They work two or three hours at a time, but not hard, and then they knock off and catch flies. [5]
He jumped overboard one day to get away from the flies. [5]
I could hear on all sides the tinkle of bells, the cracking of sticks, and the stamping of cattle that were taking refuge in the thicket from the flies. [4]
This house was occupied by flies. [4]

Short sentences using flies

The flies enjoyed it. [4]

Sentences containing flies two or more times

These settle on the beach to eat the worms that wash ashore--and any time, you can see there a belt of flies an inch deep and six feet wide, and this belt extends clear around the lake--a belt of flies one hundred miles long. [5]
Tenez, I him have seen pose Daniel Webster there upon this plank--Daniel Webster was the name of the frog--and to him sing, 'Some flies, Daniel, some flies! [5]
You must come from a world of upside-down, where the men are as small as flies, and the flies as big as the giants of the past. [10]
He flies into anger and flies out. [11]
He remarks (p. 33) that, "the captured flies utter a peculiar plaintive note, and that this sound causes other flies to disappear. [1]

More example sentences with the word flies in them

The four monks, who had leaned their heads against the cornice of the wide, closed fireplace and, in spite of the flies which buzzed around them, had fallen asleep, awoke. [10]
Where was it when the blue flies were buzzing over the coffins of the unburied dead piled up in the cemetery of New Orleans, at the edge of the huge trenches yawning to receive them? [3]
The horses alone were stirring-flicking off the flies with their flowing tails, or turning to bite the burning stings they inflicted. [10]
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. [12]
And, as we went southward, our hands and faces became blotched all over by the bites of mosquitoes and flies, and we smothered ourselves under blankets to get rid of them. [9]
The Queen's fool was standing near, seemingly engaged in the light occupation of catching imaginary flies, buzzing with his motions. [11]
This young man--it was our kind friend Marcus, of course--crossed the court, taking a zigzag at first, as a snipe flies, and then came towards our door. [10]
Leaving the indolent village behind, I passed the Palace, where I beheld the sacred majesty of Tonga on the veranda sleepily flapping the flies from his aged calves, and I could not find that flag. [11]
When Seth whirls up the sand, and a grain of it flies up his nose, he waxes angry--so it is Paaker's nose, and that only, which is answerable for all your blue bruises. [10]
He got him up so in the matter of ketching flies, and kep'him in practice so constant, that he'd nail a fly every time as fur as he could see him. [5]
He got him up so in the matter of ketching flies, and kep' him in practice so constant, that he'd nail a fly every time as fur as he could see him. [5]
Sawing off stumps under the water, knocking poisonous snakes by scores from the branches, while the river rose and rose and rose, and the rain crept by inches under their tent flies, and the enemy walked the parapet of Vicksburg and laughed. [9]
A curtain of transparent gauze screened him from flies and gnats, and a tightly-woven mat of lilies and other flowers covered his feet and exhaled sweet odors for him and for the pretty singer who sat by his side. [10]
Where game flies toward us in such quantities, hunting becomes almost murder. [10]
But it flies too high for me. [5]
Away she flies to put them on. [9]
All things have their uses and their part and proper place in Nature's economy: the ducks eat the flies--the flies eat the worms--the Indians eat all three--the wild cats eat the Indians--the white folks eat the wild cats--and thus all things are lovely. [5]
Sweetest spot beneath the skies When the canker-worms don't rise,-- When the dust, that sometimes flies Into your mouth and ears and eyes. [6]
Epidemics swept away the people like flies, and the burials were conducted secretly and by night, for public funerals were not allowed, lest the revelation of the magnitude of the plague's work unman the people and plunge them into despair. [5]
This bird, during the pairing-season, flies to "perhaps a thousand feet in height," and after zig-zagging about for a time descends to the earth in a curved line, with outspread tail and quivering pinions, and surprising velocity. [1]
When it comes, the news flies from room to room in the house, there are bangings on the doors, and shoutings, "The ice-storm! [5]
He burrows in the ground so that you cannot find him, and he flies away so that you cannot catch him. [4]
It bars out the flies, and has healing properties, and a nip to it which makes the sheep skip like the cattle on a thousand hills. [5]
Whether or not the flies were all that troubled them I could not tell, and no sound save the tinkle of their bells broke the noonday stillness. [9]
I've been brushing the flies off this sore on the hump of Egypt while waiting. [11]
You think all the flies of the year are dead and gone, and there comes a warm day and all at once there is a general resurrection of 'em; they had been taking a nap, that is all. [6]
Fifteen miles as the crow flies is the usual limit of vision. [5]
The storm-bird has swallowed up all the stars as if they were flies, and the poor old mountain is so grieved at it, that streams of tears are everywhere flowing over his stony cheeks. [10]
There flies the standard, for he has warned the sentinels. [10]
The beauty my sovereign lord is limping after flies unbidden into your arms! [10]
Hope revived his soul, and Hope is the sun before which despair flies as the shades of night flee at the rising of the day-star. [10]
On the other side of Mr. Sweet, next to the parlor organ and the quartette, is the genial little railroad president Mr. Merrill, batting the flies which assail the unprotected crown of his head, and smiling benignly on the audience. [9]
Yes, when rage seizes upon me, when my beard begins to tremble, my small share of sense flies away as fast as your doves when you let them go. [10]
Life as yet seemed a festal hall, and as the bird flies from bough to bough wherever a red berry tempts him, my heart was attracted by every pair of bright eyes which glanced kindly at me. [10]
As Donovan Pasha said, it isn't easy holding down the safety- valve all the time, and when it flies off, there will be dark days for all of us. [11]
Every spring the queen comes out of the hive and flies away with one of her sons and marries him. [5]
See what a pleasant path; and there's the bird--the same bird--now he flies to another tree, and stays to sing. [12]
Their house lies over the crest of the moors which rise above Haworth, at about a dozen miles' distance as the crow flies, though much further by the road. [14]
The millet-seed sifted out on one side--the ants told me that; the honey leaked out on the other--the flies told me that. [5]
If a great one, and he is sensitive--and sated--he flies, he seeks seclusion. [11]
There was only one cruet left, and that was a stopperless, fly-specked, broken-necked thing, with two inches of vinegar in it, and a dozen preserved flies with their heels up and looking sorry they had invested there. [5]
But if we once begin to doubt the validity of this charter, as the Reformers did, the whole system flies to pieces, like sticking a pin into a soap bubble. [9]
It is an old and a true maxim that "a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. [7]
After the killing of thirty-nine men and one woman, the fakeer appears on the scene: "Approaching Doregow, met 3 pundits; also a fakeer, mounted on a pony; he was plastered over with sugar to collect flies, and was covered with them. [5]
Yet probably neither of the artists, but Philotas, would lead home the bride, for he was related to the royal family--a fine, handsome man; and, besides, her father preferred him to the other suitors who hovered around her as flies buzzed about honey. [10]
The hawk flies not swifter than Diaz will act. [11]
But we shall not forget the two eggs, fresh from the hens, whose temperature must have been above the normal, nor the spring-house in the glen, where we found a refuge from the flies and the heat. [4]
The dog is not a good hunter, and he isn't worth shucks to watch --but he scratches up the dirt floor of the cabin, and catches flies, and makes himself generally useful in the way of washing dishes. [5]
It seems, therefore, necessary that there should be an organized effort to deal with this pronunciation, and clubs will no doubt be formed all over the country, in imitation of the one mentioned, until the broad a will become as common as flies in summer. [4]
I give you my word that there are no flies on his personal integrity, if that's what you mean. [8]
The atmosphere of memory is one in which imagination flies more easily and feels itself more at home than in the thinner ether of youthful anticipation. [6]
It couldn't be like anybody, or anything that flies in the air, or creeps upon the earth, or swims in the waters under the earth. [8]
The boat flies like a swallow. [10]
The artist, who kept his flies a good deal of the time out of the boat, frankly confessed that he would prefer an honest worm and hook, or a net, or even a grappling-iron. [4]
For the money just flies --first come first served. [5]
I wonder if it ever occurs to our dried-up neighbor there to ask himself whether That Boy's collection of flies is n't about as significant in the Order of Things as his own Museum of Beetles? [6]
Who, besides yourself, is more to me than the flies on that cup? [10]
Elk Cross Roads is a dirty grocery store, encumbered with dry-goods boxes, fly-blown goods, flies, loafers. [4]
That Boy steals into his room sometimes, and stares at them with great admiration, and has himself undertaken to form a rival cabinet, chiefly consisting of flies, so far, arranged in ranks superintended by an occasional spider. [6]
The flies droning in the hot office made the only sound. [9]
The only book in sight, Whewell's--"Elements of Morality," seemed to attract flies. [4]
Something I find in me that well might claim The love of beings in a sphere above This doubtful twilight world of right and wrong; Something that shows me of the self-same clay That creeps or swims or flies in humblest form. [6]
Rich tiger-lilies thrust in at the sill, and lazy flies and king bees boomed in and out of the window. [11]
The room was hot, and still save for the buzzing of the flies. [9]
But what avails his Conquest now he lyes Inter'd in earth a prey for Wormes & Flies? [4]
Why, I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this flor--Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog--and sing out, 'Flies, Dan'l, flies! [5]
Why, I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this floor--Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog--and sing out, 'Flies, Dan'l, flies! [5]
We are to her neither more nor less than the wretched flies which we hit at when they trouble us, and may the gods be merciful to those on whom this queen's hand may fall! [10]
Caesar declared that he scorned these flies, but that their buzzing annoyed him. [10]
Tenez, I him have seen pose Daniel Webster there upon this plank--Daniel Webster was the name of the frog--and to him sing, "Some flies, Daniel, some fifes! [5]
This morning we had one of those whizzing green Ballarat flies in the room, with his stunning buzz-saw noise--the swiftest creature in the world except the lightning-flash. [5]
Another bugle blast--the gate flies open, the bull plunges in, furious, trembling, blinking in the blinding light, and stands there, a magnificent creature, centre of those multitudinous and admiring eyes, brave, ready for battle, his attitude a challenge. [5]
The woods was full of teams and wagons, hitched everywheres, feeding out of the wagon-troughs and stomping to keep off the flies. [5]
As I hear from Mr. Doubleday, the common white butterfly often flies down to a bit of paper on the ground, no doubt mistaking it for one of its own species. [1]
The older brother found this but natural, and he liked to lie still, and be fanned, or have the flies brushed away from him, and to have some one read fairy stories, which he loved, aloud to him until he dozed off to sleep. [10]
Perhaps the love for made flies is an artificial taste and has to be cultivated. [4]
France will send for him then, and he will sweep these English and Burgundian armies into the sea like flies. [5]
He watched the flies on the wall abstractedly; he listened to the early peripatetic salesmen crying their wares in the streets leading to the Palace; he stroked his cadaverous cheek with yellow fingers; he listened anxiously for a footstep. [11]
The heated room, filled with buzzing flies, was crowded with travellers. [10]
It seemed to draw all the flies from far and near. [10]
But Thought, the divine power that flies to the infinite, and enables us to form and prove our opinions, has its seat here--Here in the brain, behind the brow. [10]
It is not difficult to learn to cast; but it is difficult to learn not to snap off the flies at every throw. [4]
Where are the cradles of the young flies? [6]
They follow him close and they follow him fast, And he flies like a mountain deer; Then a mad, wild leap and he's safe at last! [11]
It has a centre-pole of excellent fir, and from its peak flies a strip of snake-skin, dyed a red which never fades. [11]
They cleared Cape Carteret with a fair wind from the north-east, which should carry them safely as the bird flies to the haven of Rozel. [11]
Our flies are carried in wagons, and our utensils and provisions. [9]
Each of us carried a boat, a pair of blankets, a sack of bread, pork, and maple-sugar; while I had my case of rods, creel, and book of flies, and Luke had an axe and the kitchen utensils. [4]
I think I can answer the Judge so long as he sticks to the premises; but when he flies from them, I cannot work any argument into the consistency of a mental gag and actually close his mouth with it. [7]
This attempt to cajole ourselves out of an ugly fact always reminds us of those unhappy flies who have been indulging in the dangerous sweets of the paper prepared for their especial use. [6]
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. [6]
I told Cowan, but he laughed and said it was the flies. [9]
In 1120 a bishop of Laon excommunicated the caterpillars in his diocese; and, the following year, St. Bernard excommunicated the flies in the Monastery of Foigny; and in 1510 the ecclesiastical court pronounced the dread sentence against the rats of Autun, Macon, and Lyons. [4]
His tail has been chopped off or else he has sat down on it too hard, some time or other, and he has to fight the flies with his heels. [5]
Perhaps it is because a bird flies with his white-fleshed limbs and walks with the dark-fleshed ones. [6]
Why didn't Job ask where the flies come from and where they go to? [6]
These two questions are like those famous household puzzles,--Where do the flies come from? [3]
Only the physicians and the hearses hurry through the streets; and out of the distance, at intervals, comes the muffled thunder of the railway train, which with the speed of the wind, and as if hunted by furies, flies by the pest-ridden city without halting. [5]
He flies wide and far; he sees all; he feeds on novelty; he passes from experience to experience--liberal pleasures of mind and sense all the way. [11]
I reeled in, and changed the flies (that is, the fly that was not snapped off). [4]

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