This preserved housefly is sporting a pair of two-millimeter-wide eyeglasses, engineered with ultra-precise fast-pulse laser technology. From Wordnik.com. [Nanotechnology For Fly Fashion] Reference
Generally speaking the housefly is very susceptible to DDT; unfortunately some fairly resistant species of fly have lately been observed. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1948 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The housefly is the Ferrari of the insect world and can change course in as little as 30 thousandths of a second. From Wordnik.com. [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference
Creepy animals are only too plentiful, the most objectionable at present is the common housefly which is a perfect plague. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. From Wordnik.com. [alivetoyou Diary Entry] Reference
Even a bloody housefly has an eye, for Zarquon's sake. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Clothahump waved him away as one might a large housefly. From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
My thoughts buzzed sluggishly like a housefly in the fall. From Wordnik.com. [CRUEL AND UNUSUAL] Reference
"What happens when you zap a housefly with a red laser," you may ask?. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Like a housefly he started working his way down the side of the tower. From Wordnik.com. [The I Inside]
"Whatever." jody gestured irritably, as though brushing off a housefly. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
A suction device the size of a large housefly contained a small camera. From Wordnik.com. [Call to Treason]
In Fly on the Wall, Gretchen Kaufman Yee turns into no surprise a housefly. From Wordnik.com. [E. Lockhart's Blog:] Reference
He had my brother killed with no more thought than he would swat a housefly. From Wordnik.com. [Ricochet]
Mexico, and Central America and grows to about twice the size of a housefly. From Wordnik.com. [saru-san Diary Entry] Reference
I'm living another day like, how the Chinese saying goes, a headless housefly. From Wordnik.com. [babycartercl Diary Entry] Reference
Several days ago a dirty great big housefly came bi-planeing its way over my keyboard. From Wordnik.com. [This Fly clearly no Woolf Moth] Reference
Aside from the enormous housefly that is buzzing around my head, life is good tonight. From Wordnik.com. [One Hundred Things] Reference
“Shut up,” Conrad barked and, as though swatting at a housefly, motioned him back. From Wordnik.com. [Rainwater] Reference
Because he could identify with the futility of a housefly, he knew he'd hit rock bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Fat Tuesday]
They recalled the British housefly, only they were much larger, and extremely pugnacious. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
He obviously had an enormous intellectual range and apparently the attention span of a housefly. From Wordnik.com. [A Grand and Bold Thing] Reference
He wondered why anybody would be showing him a six-foot-high hologram of a housefly at this time. From Wordnik.com. [Life, the Universe, and Everything]
The hausfrau couldn't... "hug" her housefly hubbie without squashing him like the bug that he was. From Wordnik.com. [BUZZKILL] Reference
But I was a kid with the attention span of a housefly and no interest in extended periods of incompetence. From Wordnik.com. [Bagpipes Teach a Life Lesson] Reference
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you zapped a common, ordinary housefly with a common red laser?. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
A friend designed the 40,000-square-foot building, but painting a housefly in each urinal was Carle's impish idea. From Wordnik.com. [The Surprising Dark Side of the Very Hungry Caterpillar] Reference
These maggots hatch from eggs inserted into the husk of nuts by a light-colored fly about the size of our common housefly. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference
The first two pages convince you that the human race is doomed to extermination within eighteen months by the housefly route!. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Ago] Reference
The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The entries are on a French hunting activist, the town of Beauvais and the housefly. From Wordnik.com. [News24 Top Stories] Reference
Note, this is not a housefly, but a tiny fruit fly. sign in (if you're already a member). From Wordnik.com. [Sylloge] Reference
Players control Darwin, the G-Force team leader, and housefly surveillance commando Mooch. From Wordnik.com. [DS-x2 headlines] Reference
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