Spanish fly
Example Sentences
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As if creation contained any mineral, drug simple, leech, Spanish fly, gadfly, or showerbath, so soothing as a loving wife is to a man in affliction.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles
I can remember how he laboriously explained to his examiner that the Spanish fly grew in Spain.
From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by Doyle, A. Conan
It was thought that the poison of the Spanish fly existed in the body, while the head and wings contained the antidote.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton
It quickly induces a sharp burning pain, and it excites a destructive outward inflammation which enters much more into the true skin than that which is caused by an old fashioned blister of Spanish fly.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas
The web of these tarantulas each day Increases, till you shall make common cause: None, save the Spanish fly and Attic bee, As yet are strongly stinging to be free.
From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
