When our sane and learned lunatic made that very statement of how he used to consume life, his mouth was actually nauseous with the flies and spiders which he had eaten just before Mrs.Harker entered the room.
This seemed to puzzle him, so I followed it up, A nice time you'll have some time when you're flying out here, with the souls of thousands of flies and spiders and birds and cats buzzing and twittering and moaning all around you.
The first step was to restore confidence, so I asked him, speaking pretty loud so that he would hear me through his closed ears, Would you like some sugar to get your flies around again?
With a laugh he replied, Not much! Flies are poor things, after all! After a pause he added, But I don't want their souls buzzing round me, all the same.
When our sane and learned lunatic made that very statement of how he used to consume life, his mouth was actually nauseous with the flies and spiders which he had eaten just before Harker entered the room.
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. William H. Gass
A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence. Marc Racicot
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. Jackie Kennedy
I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs! Bobby Thomson
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. Charles de Montesquieu
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. Jean Paul
You must make your conversation regarding my dear new country of England less interesting, so that I may not forget how time flies by us, and with a courtly bow, he quickly left me.
