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Bouché states that the larva is cylindrical, rounded posteriorly, smooth and shining, fleshy, and yellowish white, and four lines long. The pupa-case, or puparium, is dark reddish-brown, and three lines in length. It remains in the pupa state from eight to fourteen days. The flesh fly, Musca Cæsar, or the Blue-bottle fly, feeds upon decaying animal matter.
He reached forward to get up. Jon, who had taken the letter, said quickly, "No, I'll go"; and was gone. Jolyon sank back in his chair. A blue-bottle chose that moment to come buzzing round him with a sort of fury; the sound was homely, better than nothing.... Where had the boy gone to read his letter? The wretched letter the wretched story!
Let's get out of this unreasonable sun and see this fellow." Billy was chasing blue-bottle flies on the window panes, and the patient in bed was lying still, flushed, with red eyes. He was slowly recovering from an attack of delirium tremens and reassembling his scattered wits. "Well," said McGregor, "better, I see. Bugs gone?"
Tom took no notice of her, but took, instead, two or three hard peas out of his pocket, and shot them with his thumbnail against the window, vaguely at first, but presently with the distinct aim of hitting a superannuated blue-bottle which was exposing its imbecility in the spring sunshine, clearly against the views of Nature, who had provided Tom and the peas for the speedy destruction of this weak individual.
His crime was playing at pitch and toss with the lower classes. His punishment was merely exposure. Such were the criminals who were to suffer upon this day of universal happiness and delight. Then came fifty thousand archers of the blue dragon battalion, carrying in their hands chowries of horses' tails to clear away the blue-bottle flies.
The dining-room was gorgeous with all the splendour of new mahogany and crimson morocco; the drawing-room was glorified by big looking-glasses, and the virginal freshness of gilt frames on which the feet of agile house-fly or clumsy blue-bottle had never rested. The crimsons, and blues, and greens, and drabs of the Brussels carpets retained the vivid brightness of the loom.
"Oh, excuse me, I did not know that is, I wasn't positive. At a distance I thought it was some sort of a big fly a blue-bottle. Now I see it is a blue beetle." The young lady deigned no reply. "I am sorry that you were frightened, but you don't seem to be a bit sorry on account of my sufferings." "Your sufferings?" "Yes, see how surprised you are even to know that they existed!
There he stood at gaze; presently, after you might have counted fifty, putting his foot into the topmast rigging he began to crawl, with frequent breathless stops; his passage up those shrouds had the dying uncertainty of the tread of a blue-bottle when it climbs a sheet of glass in October. "On a sudden he came down into the top very fast.
The following touch of costume, too, in Sir Peter's description of the rustic dress of Lady Teazle before he married her: "You forget when a little wire and gauze, with a few beads, made you a fly-cap not much bigger than a blue-bottle." The specimen which Sir Benjamin Backbite gives of his poetical talents was taken, it will be seen, from the following verses, which I find in Mr.
It was this feeling which brought him at last, a poor, purblind blue-bottle of the later autumn, into collision with "the universal spider," Louis XI. He took up the defence of the Duke of Brittany at Tours.
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