They were bitten by pismires an inch long, and by the unmerciful tzetze fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

Some enthusiastic entomologist will, perhaps, by and by discover that insects and worms are as essential as the larger organisms to the proper working of the great terraqueous machine, and we shall have as eloquent pleas in defence of the mosquito, and perhaps oven of the tzetze-fly, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

Some enthusiastic entomologist will, perhaps, by and by discover that insects and worms are as essential as the larger organisms to the proper working of the great terraqueous machine, and we shall have as eloquent pleas in defence of the mosquito, and perhaps oven of the tzetze-fly, as Toussenel and Michelet have framed in behalf of the bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)] Reference