Flea Ridden

Researchers found that the immune systems of flea-ridden wild rats are busy fighting off everything from germs to parasites, whereas the immune systems of lab rats had nothing major to occupy them. ❋ Donna Jackson Nakazawa (2008)

Mrs. Lovett is preparing pie crust in a flea-ridden bakery in the wrong part of London Town. ❋ Mickey Rapkin (2010)

A man with a broken nose and a greasy, flea-ridden beard …a dull knife, heated in the fire …the reek of his own vomit as he lay on the ground and— ❋ Anna Elliott (2010)

Aaron jerked his hand out of mine and started to claw at his stomach like a flea-ridden dog. ❋ Jeri Smith-Ready (2010)

The bureau confirmed it to Anderson even though J. Edgar Hoover had called him "a flea-ridden dog" who was "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The only reliefs were provided by our halts at the way-stations - poor, flea-ridden places with atrocious accommodation and worse food. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

Instead, I get one less card than flea-ridden Darren. ❋ Tim Collins (2010)

They obviously just wanted the flea-ridden pup out of their sight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In one courtyard, a mangy, flea-ridden griffon lay couchant, chained to the wall, flies buzzing around its slow-blinking head. ❋ M. T. Andreson (2009)

You're branded for life as a bleeding-heart liberal, a Castro-commie or some other excoriation unworthy even of a flea-ridden mongrel dog. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In fact, I'd react the same way I would if some manky flea-ridden stray dog crawled in through the back door and started licking my feet. ❋ Juliette (2008)

The distaste for koala perhaps is not surprising, as a few years ago even our Tourism Minister John Brown notably described them as "flea-ridden, piddling, stinking, scratching, rotten little things." ❋ Unknown (2008)