The intellectual muscle developed by straining at gnats is remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Life Speech “Upsetting” and “Not OK” for the Duke University Women’s Center] Reference
February sunbeam calls gnats out of the dead earth and sets them spinning. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference
In the meantime, let's get rid of the "gnats" too. From Wordnik.com. [More than 100 Folks Crowd City Hall for Hearing on Burgess’ Panhandling Ordinance « PubliCola] Reference
SEATTLE - The "gnats" delivered a big bite Friday night for the Seattle Mariners. From Wordnik.com. [Kitsap Sun Stories] Reference
The difficulties of faith are 'gnats' beside the 'camels' which unbelief has to swallow. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark] Reference
The gnats danced before her and buzzed in her ears. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
The measures against mosquitoes also work for gnats. From Wordnik.com. [Dr Luisa Dillner's guide to . . . Holiday pests] Reference
Mosquitoes, gnats and jellyfish – be careful out there!. From Wordnik.com. [Dr Luisa Dillner's guide to . . . Holiday pests] Reference
"I'm not afraid of gnats, or mosquitoes, or, or on-wees!". From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
A pile of dishes sat gathering gnats in the evening light. From Wordnik.com. [Holy Mothballs] Reference
Are locusts and gnats generally believed to enjoy immortality?. From Wordnik.com. [Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8] Reference
Multitude who, like the gnats, fly towards every thing brilliant. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations from Georg Ebers] Reference
Humanists against those who, being gnats themselves, tried to swallow camels. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
Be patient: The media gnats are about to descend on Bradley, the Goreans know. From Wordnik.com. [The Buzz About Bradley] Reference
They simply follow the flies and gnats, which remain in the warm strata of the air. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
"So let me turn to the subject at hand," he said, "before these gnats eat me alive!". From Wordnik.com. [The Buzz About Bradley] Reference
When he left the office, Ostreich's rolling phrases buzzed in his head like swarming gnats. From Wordnik.com. [Get Out of Our Skies!] Reference
The evening was then advancing, and the gnats from the trees and shrubs plagued the horses. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
I'm still outside, slapping at gnats and mosquitoes, and I tell her I'll sleep on the couch. From Wordnik.com. [Promises] Reference
Now they looked like a flock of starlings ... now like a cluster of flies ... now like gnats. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
The buffalo-gnats, gadflies, and other flies do on the whole a large amount of damage each year. From Wordnik.com. [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference
And with that he sprang forward with open jaws, thinking he could easily swallow a million gnats. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
The little girl who answered had read that the Pharisees "strained at gnats and swallowed camels.". From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
Desert; but instead of them came the south-east, bringing clouds of locusts, musquitoes, and gnats. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
The miasma was strongly perceptible to the smell, and our horses were plagued with flies and gnats. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
Chaerephon the Sphettian asked him whether he thought gnats buzzed through the mouth or the breech. From Wordnik.com. [Clouds] Reference
They walked into a cloud of gnats and thousands of them, it seemed, instantly adhered to his sweaty face. From Wordnik.com. [s do something with this] Reference
Among these organisms there are several species of worms, spiders, gnats, and, above all, crustaceans of the lower class. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference
Oh, and then there are gnats and biting flies from time to time, so add "buggy" to that list of not-so-comfortable adjectives. From Wordnik.com. [A Farmer’s Labor of Love] Reference
The only thing my mom bought from the Avon lady, that perfumey oil had a reputation for keeping the mosquitoes and gnats away. From Wordnik.com. [The Cone of Uncertainty] Reference
His weary limbs are robbed of rest by fear of the lightning and the wild thunder and of the furious swarms of gnats and flies. From Wordnik.com. [A Sampling of Stormy Classical Music] Reference
Critics who suspect the intelligence data about Saddam's nuclear program was hyped are brushed aside like gnats on an elephant. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: The Masters Of Spin] Reference
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