How To Use Flea In A Sentence
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Phil always did have the willpower of a particularly suasible flea.
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As many as 30 different species grow, among them Alpine bartsia Bartsia alpina, Alpine bistort Polygonum viviparum, Unalaska fleabane Erigeron humilis and thick-leaved whitlow grass Draba crassifolia.
Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
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We ended up walking the streets with our suitcases and had to spend the night in a flea-bitten youth hostel, with lots of old men and young lads.
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But going back to the days when I was seeing these epics first time round, in the fleapits and bug-hutches of south-east Leeds - most of them converted music halls or disused chapels - we didn't give a hoot what the title of the film was.
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Enfin pourrait-on dire, l´occident, après des décennies de surdité, en vient lentement à combattre ce fléau criminel économique qui gangrène autant le développement de l´Afrique qu´il engraisse l´illégalité fiscale en Europe et de par le monde.
Global Voices in English » Paris court investigates three African leaders
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Clinker perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm with a garter, and, pulling out a horse-fleam, let him blood in the farrier stile. —
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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I find as many homes as I can and keep as many as I can house properly; I spay/neuter, give annual shots, treat for heartworms and fleas, and hold the others in my arms as my veterinarian gives them the shot to euthanize them.
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He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
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Jewish culture in flea markets, used records stores, and auctions all over.
Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography
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Late in life the junk store/flea market bug bit Papa hard.
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I purchased my bee balm from flea and farmer's markets.
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He devoured some duck and turkey cat food while I administered a flea treatment, because he was starting to look ropey again.
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The Watchdog says the word "ash borer" reminds him of his flea problem.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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(Read The Observer's extensive coverage here.) "Save The Hotel" activist Gregory Jones once took issue with my use of the term "fleabag" to describe the dowdy would-be landmark on Seventh Avenue.
Win Trip To 'Luxurious' Hotel Pennsylvania!
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Young F has been reading about it in Brendan O'Brien's The Story of Ireland, and although now reassured that the danger from fleas and rats has been much reduced, and that in any case bubonic plague is treatable with modern antibiotics, he is keen to learn more.
This is a long shot, but...
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The disease is passed onto humans through fleas which jump from the rat when it dies.
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From that point forward I made an effort to look inside old cameras whenever we would stop in antique stores and Sunday flea markets.
Mango Falls | clusterflock
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It was a classic case of large fleas, smaller fleas, and so on ad infinitum.
DEATH IN FASHION
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Also intrinsic to the flea market orientation was an element of bargain hunting.
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(_e. g._ flies and fleas) this union of the sexes results in the production of a _skolex_; while others have no parents, nor do they have congress -- such are the ephemera, tipula, and the like.
Fathers of Biology
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Patients with cat scratch disease are likely to own a cat aged 12 months or younger, to have been scratched or bitten by a kitten, and to have at least one kitten infested with fleas.
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The stray dogs are wormed and treated with flea powder.
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Dr. Edgar Sheaffer, who writes for The Health Care Letter, recommends combining a dietary approach, citrus dips, and remedies such as arsenicum album, lachesis, lycopodium, or ledum palustre to deal with fleas.
250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You
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The monkey scratched about in its mate's fur for fleas.
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No entries will be accepted after this date or on the day for the fleadh.
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Prof. POTTER: Yeah, when a bedbug bites a person, they inject both an anti-coagulant, which allows the bug to extract blood from the human, and also sort of anesthetizing agent, which causes the bite to be painless, unlike say a flea bite, for example.
Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't Let The Bedbugs ...
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We wished to avoid the constant and real threat of bedbugs, fleas, and other insect pests which we had brought home in our bags, topclothing, and soiled linens.
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Some species overwinter near the roots of weeds such as stickweed, plantain, and fleabane.
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He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
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Imagine my horror when I had invited the parents of a Japanese student staying with me and we were all bitten by fleas!
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It wasn't your father -- he hasn't the smeddum of a flea -- but he wouldn't send you to do what he dassn't do himself.
Rainbow Valley
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We are all pretty well, but all but devoured by multitudinous and multivarious beasts of prey -- birds, I suppose they are: mosquitoes, ants, and flies, by day; and flies, fleas, and worse, by night.
Records of a Girlhood
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Maggie is $165 which includes desexing, microchipping, first vaccination, heartworm, flea and worm treatment.
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Son of Banquo, Fleance escapes Macbeth's murderous rampage and flees to England where he helps Macduff mount the insurrection that unthrones Macbeth.
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Ships, from small flea-like fighters to gunboats, corvettes and super-battlecruisers are appropriately sized.
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As he walked around the lounge his boots stuck to the floor and he became aware that he was being bitten by fleas.
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Lice are wingless and they cannot jump, unlike fleas, but instead they spread through physical contact.
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Also round about this time fleas and body lice were rampant and so most people shaved their body hair.
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Some evolve to become, like fleas, tiny travellers on the skin of a larger ant.
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We gossip in the same way that monkeys search through the fur of other monkeys for fleas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The arena livens up only on Saturdays and Sundays when a flea market is open there.
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Strutt may be able to deflea a cat with lemon water, but a gifted self-promoter she is not.
Top stories from Times Online
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Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
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Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
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His ankles are reddened by sand-flea bites, his head has been shorn to indicate his reduction in status.
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The virus is spread by biting insects such as fleas, mosquitoes and horseflies.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the bottom, there are hundreds of backpacker hotels, and (away from the fleapits of the Khao San Road, at least) most are clean and comfy, if a little spartan.
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Like other white dogs, the Westie often has problems with skin allergies, usually caused by fleas.
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Soviet Communism had discouraged travel; the old comfortably flea-ridden hans had decayed.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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It's part flea market, part international bazaar, part Dufferin Mall.
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Alongside the Flea's concerns about global colding and fascist medievalism is the gnawing anxiety we are all going to be pasted by an asteroid.
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The club had a dropped pass on a flea flicker, a botched fake punt in its own territory and a halfback option pass intercepted in the end zone in its first four games.
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And while a teenager has the foresight of a flea, her powers of humbug-detection are finely honed.
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The Watchdog says the word "ash borer" reminds him of his flea problem.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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To relieve itching, and to help heal flea bites and skin inflammation, consider giving your pet an herbal skin and coat rinse.
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Or perhaps a flea market, where the detritus of a capitalist culture gets recycled in survivalist fantasia below a mythological rural idyll.
Locavore Utopia
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She laid the fleam against his neck, flicked it into the vein, drew it out.
Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life
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Thomas responded in the second quarter with the top play of the day, a 64-yard touchdown pass to D.J. Davis on a flea-flicker that cut the Green team's deficit to 17-14.
Quarterback competition highlights Oregon spring game
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Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.
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The bureau confirmed it to Anderson even though J. Edgar Hoover had called him "a flea-ridden dog" who was "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures.
A new book reveals depths of columnist Jack Anderson's anti-Nixon tactics
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Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
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Myxomatosis is spread from animal to animal by the rabbit flea.
Food Watch
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In many places around the country, you'll find a monthly antique flea market; sometimes, at the end of the day, sellers actually leave things behind because they don't want to schlepp them home.
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Yet this same day, my local Pressing, where I bring my sumptuous linen sheets to be cleaned (which I bought by being cheap, and bargained for at a flea market), mistakenly overcharged me 60 centimes, which I didn't discover until I got home.
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It's a CD of music from the Swiss alps I bought at a flea market one Sunday when I was in an ironic mood.
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Asters (Aster novi-belgii), butterfly weed, Coreopsis, fleabane, Jupiter's-beard, Lantana, lavender, Sedum, verbena, and yarrow all thrive on dry, sunny sites.
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The apes, saturated and peaceful, lived in sophisticated playfulness, or caught fleas in philosophic contemplation; the Neanderthaler trampled gloomily through the world, banging around with clubs.
Autumn
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She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood.
The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
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The local antique dealers held a flea market and fair on the high - school athletic field.
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She furnished the space with comfortable, stylish pieces, including a chair found at a flea market, an old coffee table, and an antique daybed.
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Not only does it repel mosquitoes, but it repels ticks, chiggers, fleas, and flies, too.
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Grab your bumbag and hit the flea market where the characters love picking up 'treasure'.
The Sun
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I nosed into the shadow and turned on my searchlight and the cone of brightness showed me nothing but the dreariness of pea-sized rubble and the flats of rock dust and little boiling areas where the dust, electrified by the inpouring solar radiation, hopped and jumped and skipped like a frying pan of fleas.
The Trouble With Tycho
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Tuesday night was ‘old movie night’ at the local fleapit.
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‘Oscar's far too old for rabbiting’ said George sharply, eyeing the flea-bitten beagle snoring in the corner of the room with distaste.
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And why should they be living in that clean house in a reasonable suburb when there's a rat-infested fleapit well away from public transport available for twenty bucks a week less?
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Fleas store the energy in resilin and then release it for their hops.
BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Aliens Among Us
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Horrified by the lice and fleas, she had thrown her clothes away and was covered only in a blanket, although it was midwinter.
Times, Sunday Times
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I tend to come late to films that are on limited release, so that they are usually only showing in an art-house fleapit.
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Your little company may be nothing but a flea in a corporate elephant's patch of jungle but just how much might the elephant be willing to pay to be rid of you, or to buy you out?
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Rickettsial diseases are vector-borne illnesses usually carried by ticks, lice, fleas, or mites, and are widely distributed throughout the world.
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The king loses his grip when he becomes obsessed - and this is a sight to behold - with a giant flea.
Times, Sunday Times
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DARGIS: Come back here, you flea-bitten monster!
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I don’t want to call your great-aunt and tell her I murdered you by flea bomb.
THE EXTRA MAN
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He burst into our meeting and got sent away with a flea in his ear.
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Tightly-contested games receive high marks, but the system also takes strange and rare occurrences into account, such as a flea-flicker or a fake punt.
There's No Trophy for Being Exciting
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As the rat scurries along the rafters and through the thatched roofs of 14th Century England the infected fleas would drop down off their backs onto the humans below.
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Two came recently: the winningly inventive Opening Ceremony, selling pioneering, quirky international fashion — long black Brazilian capes, finely knitted German undershirts — by designers and manufacturers you’ve almost certainly never heard of; and De Vera, a sort of hyper-curated flea market — a Wunderkammer, really — where necklaces made from ancient intaglios are displayed in artfully crammed vitrines alongside antique opium pipes and Victorian mourning jewelry.
A Bit of Punctuation
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Would it seriously hurt the company, or would it be just a flea bite?
THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
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The selection of textiles range from a fragment of printed cotton purchased at a flea market to Parisian couture gowns, African wall hangings and Turkish robes.
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Despite the ridic weekend heat wave, over 12,000 made it to the first L.A. Flea Market at the Dodger Stadium on Sunday.
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Organophosphates act like a nerve gas, paralyzing the nervous system of the flea.
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He squats beside the machine, threading a screw the size of a flea, his eyes watering, face crimson and swollen.
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Bird's-foot trefoil and bugloss, poppies and cornflowers, fumitory and fleabane – there were about 20 species all in bloom and, aside from the great surge of colour, the highlight for me was the bumblebees, mainly common carder and red-tailed bumblebees, that trafficked through the flowers all day long.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Babystars, fleabane, and the aptly name fireweed, post-fire denizens of the vegetation world, had already sprouted and were laying claim to the barren slopes.
News Review - Top Stories
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She described some James-controlled rooms which have since been cleaned as abhorrently dirty and disorganized, randomly stuffed with personal belongings, important Club documents, flea market trinkets and infested with vermin and insects.
Arts Club Hearing Blocked by Court
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I'll put a flea in his ear if he bothers me once more.
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He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
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Giving her the name Emily, I decided to adopt her, bought a packet of flea powder and that was that.
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Even before the sun grew high the dhow was a comfortless indecent thing, more crowded than anything Noah can have had to tolerate: and we lacked Noah's faith in omniscient guidance, in addition to sailing in a hotter latitude, and having more fleas on board than the pair he is reported to have carried.
The Ivory Trail
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Pet shops and supermarkets sell a huge variety of flea dips and shampoos for your pet.
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Flea-infested dogs may scratch mainly on the lower part of their bodies while cats may scratch more around their heads and necks.
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A far cry, I suggest, from the usual fleapits he inhabits, such as the Hotel Tivoli in Luanda.
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Cockroaches, scorpions, earwigs, mosquitoes, termites, beetles, ants and even fleas, present different challenges to homeowner ... read more fauna how-to lifestyles
Mi Pullman: remodeling a Mexican Art Nouveau townhouse I
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The crevices at the sides of chairs provide an ideal refuge for fleas at all stages in their lifecycle.
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It shouldn't be one of the best hotels, but not a fleapit either.
HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
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As the band lets the dueling guitars heat up, Johnson barks like a flea market pitchman, bargaining with wary shoppers for humanism and attention.
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The Stockholm picture and one of the drawings show a woman searching for fleas.
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He was afraid for her, at her being involved, but it was a minor, fleabite emotion beside the anger which plagued him.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.
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Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
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Some cats and dogs have this, I don't know, neurological crosswire or something and will do this automatic "flea-biting" behavior when a person scratches in a certain spot, usually at the tail.
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
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The king loses his grip when he becomes obsessed - and this is a sight to behold - with a giant flea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
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The speaker in the poem asks the object of his affections to observe the flea.
Times, Sunday Times
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~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~ tchatche (tchatcher) = to chat; la brocante (f) = second-hand goods, fleamarket; le brocanteur (m) = seller at a fleamarket; portugais = Portugeuse; français = French; le funambulist = tightrope walker; le pichet = pitcher; le papier (m) à bulles = plastic wrap with "bubbles
Brocante / Antiques
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Synthetic biologists have genetically engineered E. coli to produce resilin, the rubbery protein that enables fleas to jump and insect wings to flex.
Boing Boing: October 9, 2005 - October 15, 2005 Archives
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In the end, I obeyed and fell into a comfortable sleep, ignoring the fleas that were jumping around me.
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It is said that in other society there is sometimes a great scramble for the first place, for the leadership, as it is called, and that women, and men too, fight for what is called position; and in order to be first they will injure their neighbors by telling stories about them and by backbiting, which is the meanest kind of biting there is, not excepting the bite of fleas.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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The birds do not normally use it again because old nests can be full of fleas.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this kooky flea circus is still worth a visit.
The Sun
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Maunder explained that flea eggs, the worm-like larvae, are born in autumn and survive in nests around the household over winter.
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A glacier species of particular note is the glacier flea Isotoma saltans, a species of springtail.
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
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He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
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While it may not win the fight against ragwort on its 'own, it still has a part to play when used with other ragwort control agents such as ragwort flea beetle and ragwort plume moth.
Museum Blogs
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In the next bed were the medicinal herbs she used in potions for sick folks: squaw weed, hepatica, goldenseal, ginseng for the brain, jewelweed for poison ivy rash, wolf milk for warts, and fleabane and pale hergamot, which Granny would rub on her face and arms to keep off mosquitos and gnats.
Archive 2007-06-01
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All entries and fee for the fleadh must be in before Thursday May 1.
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One Hanson Place (1 Hanson Pl. at Ashland Street in Fort Greene), www. brownstoner.com/brooklynflea.
NY Post: News
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This was always my family's final destination: to spend a couple of nights in a much-loved fleapit of a hotel set on the edge of town.
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Pennyroyal, a type of mint, is effective against fleas so attach a few dried pennyroyal leaves to your pet's collar.
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Excuse me; Ce n'est pas grave = It's nothing; la brocante (f) = flea market; la bricole (f) = trifle, trinket; le potager (m) = vegetable garden; la mère (f) = mother
French Word-A-Day:
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Yes | No | Report from chuckey wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago mith busters should try thiswelda steel plug in a 50 bmg rifleand put a can of coke a side of the muzzle breakit will disapear
Why Rifle Makers Go Gray
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If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
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This cat was not in terribly good shape; he was thin and half-bald from a bad flea problem that his neglectful owners never saw fit to address, but even so, he's one of the sweetest boys in the world.
National Treasure
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If one bends over backwards to avoid such epithets as spend -, slip - or slidethrift, spillgood, or scattergood, one incurs hostile mutters of sparethrift or sparegood, scrapepelf or scrape-good, pinchfist or skinflint (also flay - or fleaflint), pinchgut
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
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Typhus is caused by rickettsia, bacteria-like microorganisms transmitted through blood-sucking insects such as fleas, lice, and ticks.
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Advertisements for pawn shops, bail bondsmen and flea markets confirm a crisis.
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Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.
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The company blamed the weather while pointing out that a hot spell last year had boosted demand for flea collars.
The Sun
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They're so plagued by lice, fleas, dander and mange that their coats are spotted with huge bald patches and pocked with weeping sores.
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Some herbs that repel fleas include: juniper, pennyroyal, citronella, eucalyptus, cedar and Canadian fleabane.
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In addition, numbers of gynandromorphic daphnia rose when they were exposed to a particular pesticide - pyriproxyfen - and the effect increased when the water fleas were also exposed to warmer temperatures.
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If that isn't enough there are other creepy-crawly threats that jump around trying to kill you, like spiders and fleas.
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The team tried a flea-flicker, but that failed.
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He headed back towards the flea market and was quickly swallowed up in the crowd.
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It's not about the cost of materials: he scrounges and scours flea markets and online auctions for things that can apply to the tables.
Roasting Rich and Famous
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Where are the serious people who can displace this flea-bitten ragtag circus of charlatans, illiterates, hucksters, kooks, and dumbells?
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But after a trick play in the first minute of the second quarter, called a flea-flicker, resulted in his being sacked by three Giants, including all-pro linebacker Lawrence Taylor, Theismann was left sprawled on the bermuda grass of RFK, his lower leg pinned under his body.
Strasburg, Theismann and D.C. sports injuries
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Well, after over 20 years of searching used book stores, thrift stores, flea markets, little kids 'backpacks and the pockets of dead bums in alleys, all with no luck, my long search for the Conan Endless Quest adventure books came to a conclusion thanks to the amazing generosity of a Geek Orthodox reader named Kevin.
Archive 2009-01-01
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We wished to avoid the constant and real threat of bedbugs, fleas, and other insect pests which we had brought home in our bags, topclothing, and soiled linens.
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Coptic medical documents indicate that galbanum was used to rid the home and body of fleas and other vermin.
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Aquillius then supplied the address where the Seven Sights group were staying, in some fleapit called the Helios.
See Delphi and Die
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The things inside came from Rayburn's magpie collection of boxes, art supplies and flea-market treasures, and they were arranged to suggest the way they'd once been stashed in his studio.
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It is spread by biting insects such as fleas, mosquitoes and horseflies.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you have been bitten by fleas, mites, or bedbugs you may have an infestation in your home, such as on one or more of your pets, and should try to find the infestation and get rid of it.
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Farage in media flea circus?
Times, Sunday Times
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More recently, in Canada at least, it is associated with cheap and dirty accommodation (such as fleabag motels and run-down rooming), as well as with prostitution and other disreputable or illegal activities.
The Big Apple
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An army of dirty children ran passed me, trying to chase a flea-bitten dog.
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The flea-bitten gray pony was saddled by a sleepy saice, and brought round from his open-sided thatch stable in the rear.
Rung Ho
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The monkey scratched about in its mate's fur for fleas.
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Still, when all around were dining on quails' eggs, Orwell was roughing it in the kitchens of swanky hotels, dossing down in flea pits and blundering in the Spanish Civil war.
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If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
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And the farmer wouldn't have the straw back in his yards, because of his animals getting the fleas and the lice.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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Gary the guide reported that for all Beijing's attractions, westerners are magnetically attracted to the local flea market, the Silk Alley Market.
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Fleas desert a dead rat faster than rats desert a sinking ship, and that makes sense.
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He that lies down [sleeps] with dogs must rise up with fleas.
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Flea beetles like this crop a lot and the best way for me to get broccoli and cauliflower is to start the seedling in flats.
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We gossip in the same way that monkeys search through the fur of other monkeys for fleas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet relative to body size, fleas jump 150 times their height - the equivalent of a human jumping about 1,000 feet.
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My daughter holding a Muley mount I bought at a flea mkt.
Field & Stream
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The key is that the OBR is strong enough and independent enough to send them away with a flea in their ear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mrs. Lovett is preparing pie crust in a flea-ridden bakery in the wrong part of London Town.
Theater Geek
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A man with a broken nose and a greasy, flea-ridden beard …a dull knife, heated in the fire …the reek of his own vomit as he lay on the ground and—
Dark Moon of Avalon
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Sur un plan plus négatif, le Botswana a le taux le plus élevé d'infection à VIH et de sida dans le monde, mais s'est doté des programmes les plus avancés et les plus complets d'Afrique pour lutter contre ces fléaux. site Web Botswana Facts
Archive 2010-07-01
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She had a prolapsed uterus and anus, with massive mucous discharges, was paralysed and oedematous from the waist down and her entire body was covered with abrasions and flea bites.
Bedlam
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- Snow fleas are not really fleas, but belong to a group of primitive organisms called springtails (Collembola).
Rich Wolf: Boulder's Heart-Warming Fleas
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And it reigned in British fleapits for more than ten years.
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If you lie down with dogs you're gonna get fleas, and the jury realized that Hamdan was hanging with the mangiest of dogs.
Jonathan Diamond: Why Bush Is Quiet on Hamdan Verdict
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If Jack thinks I'm going to promote anything in that fleapit he's got another think coming.
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There's still more than enough fleabags to go around!
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There never was a rock that bounded like a kangaroo, never a pebble that crawled like a beetle seeking a mate, never a sand grain that swam like a water flea.
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A thousand attics and flea markets must have been raided to yield the album's menagerie of castaway ukuleles, autoharps, Marxophones, Aqualins and peck horns.
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But basing a film on a giant flea who turns out to be a guitar virtuoso is pushing the boundaries of CGI charm.
The Sun
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I thought this might be a reaction to the antibiotics I had him on to heal sores from the original flea bites.
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I prepared unfruitful year with Mr. Fleagle and for a long time was not disappointed.
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Other buzzing entrepreneurs would zoom up and buy your rejects to peddle at flea markets.
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Ye are a bonny lass, too, an ye wad busk up your cockernony a bit; and a bonny lass will find favour wi’ judge and jury, when they would strap up a grewsome carle like me for the fifteenth part of a flea’s hide and tallow, d — n them.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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That dog is having a good scratch. It must have fleas.
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When he came to ask for his job back, we sent him away with a flea in his ear.
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The honesty of her descriptions, which included stories of fleas in the bed and poor sanitation, shamed some parts of her family.
Times, Sunday Times
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Piloted by its builder, the Flea flew successfully and featured a cowling underneath the engine - perhaps a unique modification.
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Inspecting the marsupial in question, I noticed it was crawling with fleas.
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The company blamed the weather while pointing out that a hot spell last year had boosted demand for flea collars.
The Sun
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He fumbled in his pockets as he spoke, and, as chance would it, the "fleam" (or cattle lancet) was somewhere about his dress.
A Dark Night's Work
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The barracks was extremely crowded and infested with fleas.
Christianity Today
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Saints 14 49ers 20, 5:42 3rd quarter Three and out for the 49ers, a failed flea-flicker derailing the drive, as Smith pitches the ball back to Gore before the running back attempts to return the ball to him with a short backwards pass which, had it succeeded, would have allowed the quarterback to take a shot downfield with the defence out of position.
New Orleans Saints 32 San Francisco 49ers 36 - as it happened | Paolo Bandini
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Others come home with unfamiliar diseases, such as leishmaniasis, a nasty infection transmitted by the bite of a sand flea.
Wounded Veterans
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Deet protects troops on the ground from mosquitoes, deer ticks, biting flies, chiggers, fleas and other insects.
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His ankles are reddened by sand-flea bites, his head has been shorn to indicate his reduction in status.
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The word reminds me of when I was a boy eagerly looking forward to the Saturday matinees in our local fleapit.
