green-bottled

Updated: May 13, 2025

I throw this hook of a fang over your neck to keep you from falling off." Word went back to the house-fly's family, and a choir of great green-bottled insects sang this psalm at the funeral: "An unfortunate fly a-visiting went, And in a gossamer web found himself pent."

T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage - Around The Tea-Table