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 Cutten, George Barton

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 Doyle, A. Conan

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 Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Crabs-claws, Spanish fly, and dragon roots, given three mornings before the new or full moon, was suggested as a specific by Sir Robert Gordon.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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