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Meanings of many flies in English

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Usage of many flies in English
1
From within comes the steady, somnolent buzz of a great many flies.
Black house
2
There were so many flies buzzing around the mass it was sickening.
Beyond exile: day by day armageddon
3
It was a hot day and there were many flies in the room.
A Farewell to Arms
4
Hence second-class hotels, with first-class prices; hence hard beds, no gas, and many flies.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870
5
Why, they would just crush us like so many flies.
The Rise of David Levinsky
6
Too many flies come here to see you, and we do not like flies.
The Talking Beasts: A Book of Fable Wisdom
7
We still have too many flies and mosquitoes today.
Wired
8
The grand impulsion of man to woman brushes aside lesser considerations like so many flies.
The Great Amulet
9
I kept trying, but I didn't catch many flies.
The frog princess
10
Until now, the wing colors of many flies and wasps were dismissed as random iridescence.
Wired
11
There weren't many flies on her, I tell you.
Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland
12
It seem like there wasn't so many flies.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
13
There were many flies which disturbed the slumbers of an old mongrel Newfoundland sprawling on the cobbles.
The Mountebank
14
To clean the room where there are many flies, burn pyrethrum powder (Persian insect powder).
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 4 (of 4) / A Personal Guide to the ...
15
The clouds of angry insects about his head meanwhile are as little regarded as so many flies.
Ways of Wood Folk
16
Given a certain amount of swamp grass, I could estimate how many flies are likely to inhabit it.
Mentats of Dune
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