fleabite

Updated: June 16, 2025

"Arrah, now, it's but a fleabite," he exclaimed, getting a shipmate to bind a handkerchief round his shoulder; "we've given them more than that already, and it's better than having the funnel shot away."

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Three Commanders

Didn't I tell you the Rovers robbed my father of a mine? This isn't a fleabite to what they've got that belongs to us." From the dining room the young rascals passed to the staterooms. "Trunks full of stuff," observed Flapp. "We shan't fall short of clothing." "I hope there is money in some of them," answered Dan Baxter. "Hadn't we better be putting off?" asked Flapp, nervously.

Edward Stratemeyer - The Rover Boys on the River: The Search for the Missing Houseboat

For this is a card-index war, a colossal business of files and classifications and ledgers and statistics and registrations, an undertaking on a scale beside which Harrod's and Whiteley's and Selfridge's and Wanamaker's and the Magazin du Louvre, all rolled into one, would be a fleabite of simplicity.

Ward Muir - Observations of an Orderly: Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital

Hutchinson concludes that all the evidence tends to show that the disease had probably been communicated from the blood of an infected person through the bite of the insect. It thus appears that even the proverbially trivial fleabite may at times prove a serious injury. Snake-bites.

George M. (George Milbrey) Gould - Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

"From no cloud at all, my dear sir, but just from an ordinary post- chaise, in which I have come up from Portsmouth. How are you, sir? I hope you have nothing worse than the gout to complain of. Wish you were free of that, for it must be very troublesome." "Troublesome enough, my boy, you may take my word for that; but the present attack is luckily very trifling a mere fleabite, in fact.

Harry Collingwood - Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War

Jacob Herapath constantly drew cheques to self for five, ten, twenty, thirty aye, fifty thousand pounds! He dealt in tens of thousands he was always buying or selling. Five thousand pounds! a fleabite!" "All the same, if you please," said the Professor quietly, "I should like to know if Jacob Herapath presented that self cheque himself, and if so, how he took the money it represents."

J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher - The Herapath Property