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"Flea-bitten" Quotes from Famous Books

... conditions, hygienic and otherwise. I am rooming with an Irish family whose floor space is limited, so we all have shake-downs, and in the morning can clear the decks for action with no bedsteads in the way. I am very 'crummy,' badly flea-bitten, overrun with bed bugs, somewhat fly-blown, but, redemption of it all, I am free and always drunk. Still, I am really getting tired of playing the knock-about comedian and shall ...

— An Anarchist Woman • Hutchins Hapgood

... the chances of the stranger within their gates approached those of an icicle in Hades, as our friends across the water would say. Finally, in despair, Draycott rushed into the road and seized a venerable flea-bitten grey that was ambling along with Monsieur, Madame, and all the little olive-branches sitting solemnly inside the cab. He embraced Madame, he embraced the olive-branches; finally—in despair—I believe ...

— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile

... flea-bitten gray horse dubiously. "Are you sure?" he asked. "Have you ever driven that horse eight ...

— The Lilac Girl • Ralph Henry Barbour

... Carmen. "I want you to stay with me as long as you can. I like you in those clothes." She smiled at him as if she would like him in anything; but Nick was thinking about Jim Beach, wondering if the boy would have trouble with the flea-bitten gray, which he himself had newly broken ...

— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... Besides, people who know how to take an eviction gracefully usually know enough to get out before they are put out. But Abbie had to be pushed, and she went, heartbroken, disgraced, resentful. Jake sulked after her. They moved like a couple of old flea-bitten mongrels spoken to sharply. ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes