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Now, without an elected office, Tancredo is Colorado’s Lord of the Gadflies, spending his days on cable news talking about illegal immigration and holding meetings with fellow members of an unofficial “liberty movement.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2015

The Gadflies were vexed with the Deer, because he had put them up on a bet, therefore they were very willing to sting the Deer, and they have been stinging him ever since.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl

The Swarm of Gadflies At that time Tilton was "swimming on a sea of glory."

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary

The stakes were twenty-five Gadflies, and they asked the Crow to be a witness to the contest.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl