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
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
The Spanish fly is also occasionally found in the south of England.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
As if creation contained any mineral, drug simple, leech, Spanish fly, gadfly, or showerbath, so soothing as a loving wife is to a man in affliction.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles
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
