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Letter "F" » flea
«After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.»
«Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.»
«I do honor the very flea of his dog»
«HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. _House of Correction_, a place of reward for political and personal service, and for the detention of offenders and appropriations. _House of God_, a building with a steeple and a mortgage on it. _House-dog_, a pestilent beast kept on domestic premises to insult persons passing by and appal the hardy visitor. _House-maid_, a youngerly person of the opposing sex employed to be variously disagreeable and ingeniously unclean in the station in which it has pleased God to place her.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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appal, appropriation, appropriations, bacilli, bacillus, cockroach, Cockroaches, detention, disagreeable, disagreeable person, domestic, edifices, erected, flea, habitation, Hardy, hollow, house of detention, ingeniously, microbe, microbes, mortgage, mosquito, Mosquitoes, offenders, pestilent, service station, steeple, steeples, The Station, unclean, variously
«KNIGHT, n.Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow --no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.»
«A flea on the top of a bald head.»
«a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat»
«Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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flea, hunt, hunt down, innuendo, innuendoes, misrepresentation, misrepresentations, obliged, run down, uttered
«Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens»
«One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.»
Author: Turkish Proverb
| Keywords:
blanket, blanketed, blankets, burn, flea, get rid of, rid, rid of
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