Horseflies

In the afternoon, the wind being westerly and blowing strong in squalls, some butterflies and other insects like what we call horseflies were blown on board of us. ❋ William Bligh (1785)

The horseflies and gnats Seena shooed for months swarm her now. ❋ Christina Meldrum (2011)

She wants to apologize—to acknowledge directly the horseflies, the gnats. ❋ Christina Meldrum (2011)

He was busy untangling the hermeneutical threads in the horseflies and wasps of Canto Three. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have neverdone anthing on that scale, but I have burned three horseflies out of the air with a can of skeeter spray and a BiC lighter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From inside the trees, he could hear horseflies buzzing and see them clustering on the ground and rising suddenly in the air. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

Christopher Smith has an incredible feel for the characters he creates, allowing for plenty of emotional investment by the time your favorites start to drop like bloated horseflies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What would make the land appear more valuable—little sheep capering over the terrain or a bunch of cattails and horseflies? ❋ Gwyn Cready (2010)

Because he tells her to, she puts on a vintage Easter dress one size too small and sprawls in a circle of light on the dusty floor, then pretends to watch two plastic horseflies stacked as if mating. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cow tails are scrawny and just long enough to swat away horseflies and not much else. ❋ Carole Nelson Douglas (2009)

There were soft lumps in his facial skin, similar in size to the bites of horseflies. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)