Large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds.
1 There was the house fly, the horse fly, the dangerous blue-bottle, the impecunious blow fly , the indefatigable buzzer, and others.
2 Galbraith gasped as a blow flung him hard against the tiller bar.
3 The blow flung a spoonful of stew into Trudy's face.
4 The blow flung him three metres across the grass.
5 From the bridge over the Yeuse on certain days one could hear oaths and blows flying about.
6 Keep away from blow flies .
7 "Mr. Trew- Blow flew in extra special for this today," Rickfield orated.
8 The blow flung the victim forward, so that he pitched from the saddle and tore the weapon from the corporal's grip.
9 The blow flung me a good twenty feet and I hit the ground rolling, until said ground vanished from underneath me.
10 The force of my blow flung her into the far console, but I didn't stop to see if she'd get up.
11 They fell about, sometimes four or five at once, and his blows flew thick and fast, yet he never seemed to weary of his ill-doing.
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