| 单词 | bluebottle |
| 例句 | Every creature bigger than a bluebottle was sheltering from the heat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I brushed at a bluebottle buzzing at my head. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He wrinkled his nose in disgust at the odor, which filled the wood around and was already attracting ants and bluebottles. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s bad enough in the winter when everything flows over and seeps under our door but worse in the warm weather when there are flies and bluebottles and rats. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In poor neighborhoods garbage mounded in alleys and overflowed giant trash boxes that became banquet halls for rats and bluebottle flies. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Three bluebottles fiercely fought the gauze doors, wanting to be let in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, it’s only Fiver,” said the black-tipped rabbit, “jumping at bluebottles again. Come on, Buckthorn, what were you telling me?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Hornets circled me, and shiny bluebottles buzzed in my face. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z One of them wailed and whispered, the other buzzed like a fat and angry bluebottle at a windowpane, but the voices said, as one person, “Thief! Give it back! Stop! Thief!” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “Personally, I had always thought that a big, juicy, caught-in-the-web bluebottle was the finest dinner in the world—until I tasted this.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Ugly, shiny bluebottles darted by me, as if trying to determine whether I was a tasty morsel, too. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There was a bluebottle buzzing around, and for a minute we had a laugh playing “blue bottle tennis,” throwing our hands about to make the demented creature go from one to the other of us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z An ugly bluebottle crept along his cheek before buzzing off. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Suddenly a swarm of bluebottles rose into the air with an angry whining buzz, revealing the rotting corpse beneath. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z For the next minute, Gaga is mostly dressed as a giant leather bluebottle. Who's most offended by Lady Gaga's Alejandro? 2010-06-09T14:32:00Z He loathed bluebottles, rocking chairs and the washing machine on spin. Dog funerals may sound self-indulgent, but there should be no shame in pet grief | Grace Dent 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Crouch's hectic, resentful persona is that of an angry bluebottle trapped in a jar. What Happens to the Hope at the End of the Evening – review 2013-07-14T14:11:00Z Claire Morgan arranges bluebottle flies in the form of a grid, rather than a swarm, by stringing them on lengths of transparent thread. Art Review: ?Dead or Alive? at Museum of Arts and Design 2010-04-29T21:13:00Z They married in 2007, wearing outfits of "iridescent blue and green" that made them look, in the words of Moore's eldest daughter, like a pair of bluebottles. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z “Oh baby,” he said, after I shouted at that bluebottle, “you’re so terrified by the world.” Sounding it out: ‘Listening to white noise put my life back on track’ 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z In Britain, they include the common bluebottle and greenbottle, and they are the forensic entomologist's raw material. Lords of the flies: the insect detectives 2010-09-23T07:00:00Z At times Sam Brown's production makes Gill's subtext overly apparent: the cast are onstage throughout so that, when Dennis goes to kill a bluebottle, he attacks his father seen praying behind Annemarie Woods's set. Over Gardens Out - review 2010-10-21T23:38:00Z The morning I stood on the bend of the stairs and watched a spider trap then eat a bluebottle. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z The astronomer was in mid-flow when a bluebottle flew into his mouth. Sir Patrick Moore: the eccentric amateur who became a TV star 2012-12-09T20:31:32Z "It could also attract vermin into our houses as well as flies and bluebottles." Edinburgh bin strike: Residents told to keep rubbish inside 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z My mother laughed at me one fateful beach day as she pulled a Pacific man o’ war jellyfish — known in Australia as a bluebottle — from my body as I screamed. An Australia Homecoming, Mixed With Yearning and Trepidation 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Surf Life Saving Queensland said a "whopping" 3,595 people were stung by bluebottle jellyfish on southeast beaches in the northern state. Thousands stung by 'wall' of jellyfish in Australia 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z More than 5,000 people were stung by bluebottles on Queensland’s Gold and Sunshine coasts over the weekend as weather drove a wall of jellyfish onto the shore. Jellyfish sting more than 5,000 holidaymakers on Queensland's coast 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z It is the length of a bluebottle, the thickness of a pocket diary, the width of the nail on a little finger. 11.7mm from glory: now Liverpool must brush off narrow defeat | Jonathan Wilson 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z It’s the length of a bluebottle, the thickness of a pocket diary, the width of the nail of a little finger. Manchester City 2-1 Liverpool reaction and FA Cup third-round buildup – live! 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The maggots of these flies, like the very attractive bluebottle larva, devour corpses of mice and men and everything else. Trillions of Flies Can’t All Be Bad 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Surf Life Saving Queensland said on Saturday a "wall of bluebottles" was approaching Rainbow Beach, prompting a closure. Thousands stung by 'wall' of jellyfish in Australia 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Across Queensland, but mostly in the south-east, 22,282 people sought treatment for bluebottle stings between 1 December and 7 January compared with 6,831 in the same period last year. Jellyfish sting more than 5,000 holidaymakers on Queensland's coast 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z “Really beautiful iridescence, like a bluebottle, or a fly’s eye,” he says, skipping a beat. 48 Hours With London’s Favorite Off-Beat Designer 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z According to Surf Life Saving Queensland, more than 22,800 swimmers were treated for stings by another jellyfish species, the bluebottle, on the Sunshine Coast from 1 December to 31 January. Jellyfish wash up 'like wallpaper' on Australian beach - BBC News 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish, also known as a bluebottle, is considered part of the siphonophore class. Origin of mystery deep-sea mushroom revealed - BBC News 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z "Due to the northeasterly winds, we will continue to see bluebottles hanging around," the agency said in a separate post. Thousands stung by 'wall' of jellyfish in Australia 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z In a matter of hours on Sunday, 476 bluebottle stings were treated on the Gold Coast and 461 on the Sunshine Coast. Jellyfish sting more than 5,000 holidaymakers on Queensland's coast 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Elm Farm has produced bluebottle larvae for decades, as bait for recreational fishers. Feature: Why insects could be the ideal animal feed 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z But I wouldn't mind being that bluebottle on the wall at Chequers tonight, assuming the government's fly-swotters aren't up to much. EU citizens not eligible for referendum vote, says No 10 - BBC News 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z As far back as 1937, George Orwell bemoaned the "bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come flocking towards the smell of 'progress' like bluebottles to a dead cat". Why are lattes associated with liberals? 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z It all sounds eminently reasonable, but there are two bluebottles in the ointment. Creaking internet needs to get the rebuilders in 2013-01-13T00:01:04Z But like a bluebottle repeatedly bashing its face against a windowpane, it continually tries and fails to turn him into yet another easily digested celebrity. Charlie Brooker 2012-07-08T13:56:44Z Not even the sound of snoring was audible; nothing indeed was audible except a bluebottle's buzz on a window of ground glass that seemed alive with sunlight. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia c?rulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z A spider ain't, when he's got a bluebottle in his web. Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel 2012-03-13T02:00:28.227Z I have indicated only a few by way of a hint, and in previous papers on the bluebottle and figwort have described others, but none quite similar to the barberry. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z Also, there was a tame bluebottle which worried me very much. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z But he's very clever at killing bluebottles; he will smash them on the window-panes. Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show 2011-09-19T02:00:13.900Z With a physical meaning of soft to the touch, the word is used substantively of the maggot of the bluebottle fly, used as a bait by fishermen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Bronze fly, bluebottle, and droning bee are secured alike, for all serve as food to the loveable pied fly-catcher. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z The whole is covered with a piece of muslin to keep off the villanous bluebottles. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z The kinds of flies that most people think of as flies, including houseflies and bluebottle flies, are truly day fliers, Dr. Grimaldi said. Q & A: Flies in the Dark 2011-06-06T19:12:55Z Or bluebottles, of course, if you prefer it. Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show 2011-09-19T02:00:13.900Z The highest form of emotionalism on one hand: a hole in the ground full of bluebottles and smells on the other.... Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z Did you ever see an Irishman throw out a pint of his chalk mixture because he saw a bluebottle in the measure? Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z Except for the sound of breathing and the buzzing of a bluebottle against a window screen, the place was absolutely quiet. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z The copper saucepans on the wall gleam and glitter in the rays of the declining sun, and the bluebottle flies crawl and buzz about their shining surfaces. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z They fed upon this soup, this gruel, and a surplus dripped to the ground below, where the bluebottle drank eagerly. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z Talk about ants and bluebottles running over the paper with inky feet, that’s nothing, sir. Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z This was broken by one of the Scotsmen trying to locate the bluebottle with zo�logical exactitude. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z She had been dreaming that she was falling down an abyss, or gliding down a staircase or bumping her head against the ceiling, like a giant bluebottle. Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z Dear me, now there's a bluebottle gone swaggering past. The Cat and Fiddle Book Eight Dramatised Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Performers 2010-12-29T03:00:28.543Z A great bluebottle fly, shining with a metallic luster, reposed in an ecstasy of feasting, sipping through its long proboscis the dark-colored liquid that dripped slowly from a mushroom. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z Where the bluebottles go to in the winter I suppose. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The bluebottle buzzed on the pane, otherwise a profound silence reigned. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z "Oh, I'm not afraid of a bluebottle," said Mrs. Frith haughtily. Sinister Street, vol. 1 There did not seem anything else she could want; so, having killed a bluebottle with a tartan pincushion, he came down-stairs. Plashers Mead A Novel Well—say sometimes, my dear; but you know you are orful nubbly now and then, and you say things to me that buzz in my ears like bluebottles in a stable window. Sir Hilton's Sin “Five hundred a year,” he murmured, “to be henchman to a bluebottle!” Jacob's Ladder There were three characters in the story, a bluebottle and two Scotsmen. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z A bluebottle buzzed upon the window-pane; pigeons flapped from pinnacle to pinnacle of the chapel; sparrows cheeped on a persistent note; pens scratched paper; Mr. Kirkham turned a Blue Book's page at regular intervals. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The bluebottle is abundant in these Yosemite woods, ever ready with his marvelous store of eggs to make all dead flesh fly. My First Summer in the Sierra The little Fish took the eye and replaced it in the elder Fish's head; then they both flew out, making a buzzing noise like gigantic bluebottles. The City Curious A bluebottle fly slipped out of a crevice and buzzed in the sun by the attic window. Old Plymouth Trails Hitherto he had only felt safe in the inn, and then only when he was quite alone with his glass and the buzzing bluebottles that flew up and down the dull window-pane. Absolution You buzz about," his peroration ran, "Like a bluebottle in a sugar-bowl. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 Lions, tigers, jackals, hyaenas, boa-constrictors, kangaroos, eagles, owls, bees, wasps, bluebottles, with Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and their wives, all in one fierce melee. Bible Romances First Series Member exactly as the policeman treated the bluebottle—with perfect indifference, not even troubling to brush away the trifling annoyance. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 On the other hand, should a piece of beef or a bluebottle fly be placed in it, it will remain firmly closed until all the matter is absorbed through the leaf. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad The bluebottle buzzed towards the window, swirled about, hit Chris on the nose again with remarkable stupidity, and blundered off once more towards the window. Mr. Wicker's Window Wait till I’ve done telling you before you pull faces, you old bluebottle! The Madcap of the School Fancy Noah occupied in a wild-goose chase, or selecting specimens from a wasps' or hornets' nest, or giving assiduous chase to a vigilant and elusive bluebottle fly! Bible Romances First Series I really believe a swarm of wasps would not have roused them to activity, for I noticed a bluebottle resting undisturbed upon the nose of one of Inspector Horsley's staff. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 Then she saw a fly—a huge, buzzing, bluebottle fly—settle for a moment on the round, bald pate of the innkeeper, and still the sleeper did not stir. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 The bluebottle fly buzzed upward from the table, flew directly at Chris's nose, hit it, flew around his head, and bumped into his ear. Mr. Wicker's Window Very gingerly she pulled aside the torn pieces of paper, and disclosed to view four little atoms not much bigger than bluebottles. The Madcap of the School Still Mr. Lightowler was an unpleasantly constant bluebottle in his ointment. The Giant's Robe A bluebottle buzzed about the ceiling; a slant of sunlight crossed the floor. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Valentine began to have a creepy feeling up and down his back, for he didn’t relish the idea of being caught in a spider’s web like a bluebottle fly. Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country There were several ordinary flies and at least one bluebottle exercising themselves on the meat. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 Neither buzzing bluebottles nor the fall of dynasties disturbed them. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 There was only a bluebottle on the fly-paper besides Faithful, Jimmy says, so that it wasn't very crowded; but by the buzz the bluebottle kept on making you would think it owned the fly-paper. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 “Why do you take all that trouble?—said a lazy bluebottle Fly; “I never work.”—“That is the reason,” answered the Beaver, “why so many of you die of cold and hunger, in winter.” Rock A Bye Library: A Book of Fables Amusement for Good Little Children The deep digging is now accompanied by a continual buzzing noise, resembling that produced by a bluebottle fly held captive between one's fingers. My Studio Neighbors No! he was not dead yet, but the bluebottle soon would be. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Piles upon piles of manuscripts had he written upon the forms and classification of the bluebottle fly. Kate Coventry An Autobiography Jimmy says his bloodhound had never shared a fly-paper with a bluebottle before, and he kept stopping to answer the bluebottle back instead of keeping to the spy trail. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 A bluebottle had flown in through the open window, bringing with it the suggestion of warm sunshine, fields, gardens, flowers, and the blue sky and waving trees. Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel Class distinctions were apparently forgotten in the common enthusiasm; the plebeian bluebottle and blowfly now consorted with Aphrodite and sipped at the same drop. My Studio Neighbors He sank back heart-broken, and the bluebottle circled solemnly overhead, buzzing, buzzing, buzzing. and left a bewildered kitten at the top. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Great swarms of bluebottle flies buzzed lazily in the warm sunshine. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army Jimmy says Faithful had just sent an ultimatum to the bluebottle when there came the sounds of the hand-organ from a house close by. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 “Booz!” said the bluebottle, and it dashed away, leaving a profound silence, broken by the scratching of the doctor’s pen. Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel Flies: —Robber, 8; bluebottle, 8; harvest ichneumon, 45, 77, 96. My Studio Neighbors He was back in the wheat-stack once more, listening to the dull humming of ten thousand bluebottles. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Elliott brushed away a persistent bluebottle fly, a lonesome survivor which the unseasonably warm day had reawakened. Then I'll Come Back to You Angelo was proud, self-centered, independent, and he sometimes lashed the critics into a buzzing, bluebottle fury by his sarcastic speech. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Ah, those dear butterfly creatures will come to the nasty sticky papers that were meant to catch bluebottles only; well, then, they must take the consequences. Adrien Leroy You blow the candle out, and then a bluebottle fly in good voice comes out too, and is accompanied by very fair imitations of mosquitoes. Lost Leaders There are no imaginal discs for the nervous system; the brain, nerve-cords and ganglia of the butterfly or bluebottle are the direct outcome of those of the caterpillar or maggot. The Life-Story of Insects This fly is very like our British bluebottle, with a somewhat greener head, and a body entirely yellow. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 As like as two peas, and equally keen about sport—they would go twenty miles to chase a bluebottle round an attic, sooner than not hunt something. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men The bluebottle at the Cathedral service; the stray dog which rushes athwart the regal procession; the straw hat blown through the traffic! The Hawk of Egypt Think of me, shut up in a dark little three-room cabin with one elocutionist, one chronic grouch and one human bluebottle fly that does nothing but buzz! The Lookout Man The correspondence of parts in butterfly and caterpillar just referred to, may still be traced, though less easily, in bluebottle and maggot. The Life-Story of Insects There was one big bluebottle that had got stuck there on his back with his wings in the sticky stuff. Captivity M. It seems to me there's a bluebottle, or something, got inside mine—I can 'ear im! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 30, 1892 The bluebottles buzzed about the wall, and a little old mouse picked over the rubbish among the jam pots. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies She kept on her knees, and repeated the prayers in so loud a whisper that it seemed as if a swarm of bluebottles had taken possession of the nave. Abbe Mouret's Transgression "Allow me to ask," said the cheerful bluebottle, "how you knew him for a Mason like yourself?" Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Hearne relates that they will eat with a relish whole handfuls of maggots that have been produced in meat by the eggs of the bluebottle fly! Pioneers in Canada After that comes silence; and we are able, in our hot, baking trenches, assisted by clouds of bluebottles, to get on with the day's work. The First Hundred Thousand An old gentleman, maddened by a bluebottle, smashes all his furniture and breaks every window-pane but one—where the bluebottle is. Social Pictorial Satire A buzz and hum go up around me, as if the boys were so many bluebottles. David Copperfield I found my bluebottle professor to be a Swiss, thirty years resident in the city, very accessible and talkative, and, like every citizen by adoption, more patriotic than even the native-born. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 I have been buzzing over this town like a bluebottle fly, looking for you high and low. An Outcast of the Islands These trenches are badly sited, badly constructed, difficult of access from the rear, and swarming with large, fat, unpleasant flies, of the bluebottle variety. The First Hundred Thousand And he began touching the notes here and there, and humming to himself like an angry bluebottle. Sylvie and Bruno It was a judge of knots because it had a habit of tying up unfortunate bluebottles. The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter The bluebottle buzzed, buzzed noisily against the windowpane. Of Human Bondage A big bluebottle fly flew in recklessly into the cool verandah, and darted with loud buzzing between the two men. An Outcast of the Islands Lord Loudwater dipped his pen in the ink, transfixed a struggling bluebottle, and drew it out. The Loudwater Mystery Not even the presence of his bishop could make him spare a bluebottle. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I The profusion of sweet-peas, double poppies, bluebottles, stock gillyflower, and roses, I never saw equalled. Life in Mexico Was he not a tall, broadshouldered, graceful lad, with a complexion like milk and blood, and eyes the colour of a bluebottle, and did he not trim his moustaches and beard like a nobleman? Selected Polish Tales Surprised at such doings, he whispered his teacher— "If 'tisn't impertinent, may I ask why "Should a Bullock, that useful and powerful creature, "Be thus offered up to a bluebottle Fly?" The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes He made his way there, and in the dingy back shop, all amongst the dust and bluebottles, settled down to a thoughtful perusal of chapter six. Mike The office was very still, except for two bluebottle flies butting against the ceiling and buzzing up and down the window-panes. Life at High Tide If I could catch the man who made that remark I would have him tied up and teased by trained bluebottles. William Tell Told Again Red-headed and with an iridescent blue body, he is very similar to the bluebottle, and lives in huts and dwellings. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign But this place being open was full of flowers, such lovely azure cornflowers which the people call bluebottles. The Open Air Presently he will have to leave all this, and become a cockroach, or a gnat, or a bluebottle. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 The long-drawn cawing of a crow on the opposite hillside, and the buzzing of a bluebottle fly who had sought retreat in the cavern, had a like effect, and he felt himself falling asleep. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers A bluebottle fly buzzing up and down the window dropped on the sill, then began to buzz again. The Awakening of Helena Richie "Where is Uncle Bullfrog?" he asked a big bluebottle fly, who was buzzing away at a great rate. Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog "I do not believe that it is a bluebottle fly," exclaimed the emperor. Andreas Hofer Attracted by the effluvia from the dead meat, the bluebottles haunt my laboratory, the windows of which are always open. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography And with that deeply felt remark the agent put out his leathery-yellow thumb and finger and nipped a second bluebottle. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works Her head throbbed dangerously. what matter to her that the king bird pitched jovially from the maples to catch a wandering bluebottle fly, that the robin was feeding its young, that the bobolink was singing? Main-Travelled Roads There was a pleasant light in this church; the hum of a country bluebottle made all the difference to the quality of silence. Saint's Progress "Your majesty will surely enjoy one day the pleasure of crushing Bonaparte, the huge bluebottle fly, under your heel," said Hudelist. Andreas Hofer In addition, graver disasters decimate her family, if, as I do not doubt, we can apply to the bluebottle what I have seen happen in the case of her rival, the flesh fly. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography When we were not at the conference, I spent long hours, among crumbs and bluebottle flies, in the coffee-room of this hotel, my Father being busy at the British Museum and the Royal Society. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments And with that deeply felt remark the agent put out his leathery-yellow thumb and finger and nipped a second bluebottle.... The Freelands Each movement of the leathern-hided, wall-eyed steed which did our bidding was accompanied by a swishing of a sandy tail which had for its object the brushing away of autumn's harbingers, the bluebottles. Through Russia It is Bonaparte, who has transformed himself into a bluebottle fly, as Jove once transformed himself into an ox; and he came hither to annoy me and din my ears until I am quite sick. Andreas Hofer With her maternal foresight, the bluebottle knows to perfection the choice surfaces, the only ones liable to soften and run under the influence of the reagent dribbled by the newborn grubs. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography He could sympathize with the bluebottle buzzing against the sunny windowpane in its efforts to reach the free world outside. The Vision Splendid What the greenbottles, the bluebottles and the flesh flies do in the open air, at the expense of every kind of corpse, other flies, narrowing their province, do underground at the Wasps' expense. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Let us continue to study the bluebottle, while varying our means of information. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Yes, yes, Hudelist, believe me, Bonaparte is a huge bluebottle fly, which drives all Europe mad. Andreas Hofer Any meat, no matter whether of a higher or lower order, suits the bluebottle for the settlement of her family. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography From time to time, the bluebottle and the flesh fly perch on the trellis-work, make a short investigation and then decamp. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Yes, of a certainty, the offspring of the flesh fly and the bluebottle are expeditious workers. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography I place fifteen bluebottle pupae, obtained in winter, at the bottom of a wide tube closed at one end. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The owl's eyes, glazed in death, were hidden under a thick mass of eggs, which I recognized as a bluebottle's. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The author of those offences is Calliphora vomitoria, the bluebottle, who is of a stouter build and arrayed in darkest blue. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography To emerge from underground after the perfect insect is hatched, the bluebottle's device consists in disjointing her head into two movable halves, which, each distended with its great red eye, by turns separate and reunite. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography With a tied thread, I keep the two mandibles in absolute contact; and I place a second bluebottle in the presence of the linnet, which the colonists have already entered by the beak. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Then the bluebottle, the flesh fly and other flies whose grubs batten on dead bodies are kept at a proper distance. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography I put the bluebottle's eggs to hatch on a piece of meat and leave the worms to do their work as they please. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography I next place in the cage a bluebottle, one only, to avoid confusion. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography This failure to act upon the epidermis explains why the bluebottle at work on the animal declines to lay her eggs on the first part that comes handy. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography In short, a frontal pouch, with deep pulsations momentarily renewed, becomes the instrument of deliverance, the pestle wherewith the newly hatched bluebottle bruises the sand and causes it to crumble. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The bluebottle comes to my apparatus, guided by scent rather than sight. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The larvae of the bluebottle hatch within two days in the warm weather. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography As digestion, after all, merely means liquefaction, we may say, without being guilty of paradox, that the grub of the bluebottle digests its food before swallowing it. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The bluebottle frequents our homes during autumn and a part of winter, until the cold becomes severe; but her appearance in the fields dates back much earlier. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Here swarm in common the grubs of the greenbottle, the flesh fly and the bluebottle. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Scrupulous though she be in choosing exactly where to lay her eggs, the bluebottle does not trouble about the quality of the provisions intended for her family's consumption. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The wretched owl, with his shattered backbone, teaches us, first of all, that a temperature twelve degrees of frost does not endanger the existence of the bluebottle's germs. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography On the top of the contents, I sprinkle the eggs of the bluebottle, eggs free from the least stain, taken from those laid on the outside of tins baited with meat and not absolutely shut. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography We have seen the bluebottle refusing to lay her eggs on the paper bag, notwithstanding the carrion fumes of the Linnet enclosed; yet now, without hesitation, she lays them on a sheet of metal. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography It is an exact repetition of what the liquefiers of meat, the grubs of the grey flesh fly and the bluebottle, have lately shown us. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography |
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