Search Details

Word: diptera (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...appropriate spring touches are added by a dialogue between two Tabanidae see classification of Diptera a house fly and a horse fly, having it out through the screen, and by two bits off free verse. One poet thinks that the "buttercup virginity" of the faculty would be more poignant if it could be "decently lyrical." Perhaps this plaint may sting some "mute inglorious Milton" to verse. After all Homer begged his way through seven cities. The vernal note is again struck in a final celebration of James Christopher Grant reading Plato's "Kriton" to the undulations of his rocking chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN SPERRY FINDS BITE OF GADFLY WHOLESOME | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

| 1 |