"Blackfly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... could set some of them to scrubbing orange-trunks with soap-and-water and spraying acre after acre, as we do, in a wild race to keep up with the pests, knowing all the time that some careless grove owner next door may let the rust mite or the black fly get the better of his grove and let it drift over into ours. Then there's always the chance that a grove may get so infected that the government will order it destroyed, —wiped out .... I've been talking just about the citrus fruits, the grapefruit ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune
... I will be the one who has a small black fly on the right cheek. But beware! Look very carefully; it is easy to make a ...
— Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore • Laure Claire Foucher |
