Spanish fly
Example Sentences
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It was thought that the poison of the Spanish fly existed in the body, while the head and wings contained the antidote.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
The web of these tarantulas each day Increases, till you shall make common cause: None, save the Spanish fly and Attic bee, As yet are strongly stinging to be free.
From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
The tendency to the formation of the bony growth, and the increase of its development after its actual formation, may often be checked by the application of a severe blister of Spanish fly.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
I can remember how he laboriously explained to his examiner that the Spanish fly grew in Spain.
From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by A. Conan Doyle
Next fierce LIEBRIECH, quite a savage, has declared that we shall die Shattered and exacerbated by attacks of Spanish fly.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 by Various
