Flea Bitten

We drove out of the Valley and into the desert, and not long after on account of how we were passing everything in sight although I didn’t know what the hurry was, we entered a little town I recognized, the one that Bernie had called flea-bitten. ❋ Spencer Quinn (2010)

Don't be gnawing on one of those mangey, flea-bitten, critters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I cry, and I am so happy to see my flea-bitten cat. ❋ Jennifer L. Holm (2011)

Newspapers blew across the deserted Ashoka Road and Parliament Street as a handful of officials, outnumbered by hungry-looking, flea-bitten dogs, tried to look busy with no crowd to control. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She even receives an anonymous email from a staff member calling her a "flea-bitten old bitch". ❋ Viv Groskop (2010)

He labels the Palestinians' gambit as an example of "the tail wagging a very flea-bitten dog." ❋ Washingtonpost.com Editors (2011)

The flea-bitten roan, on its four legs up-standing, continued bravely to stand until the lady was removed, whereupon, with a long sigh, it sank down on the ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The rotten Acorn and her flea-bitten crew have sailed to the Americas for plunder! ❋ Unknown (2009)

One, a flea-bitten roan, groaned continually from the moment Mrs. Morgan's burden was put upon him till she was shifted to the other horse. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Who wouldn't want to spend the good part of fifteen months at a hot, dusty, flea-bitten outpost, precariously perched on a mountain ledge overlooking a tree lined valley that provides cover for people who shoot at you daily? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Houses carried away on their little flea-bitten backs! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or do you think Kat brought her beloved pet loon along as well as that flea-bitten little rat of hers? ❋ CAROLYN KEENE (2010)

This is the owner, some kind of decrepit aristocrat, as flea-bitten as the dog you see snuffling about in the garden. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yep, it's this flea-bitten yoyo plummeting earthward from 5,000 feet as that beep-beeping sonofabitch of a bird waves goodbye from above and boogies on into a tunnel or something. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On my [trip] to [Ontario] [my friend] almost got in a fight with some flea-bitten goose! ❋ Mark K. Smith (2005)