While the bite of a mosquito or a tsetse fly may not be noticed, the bite of a blind-fly is very painful. The female takes about five minutes to gorge itself with blood and when it leaves the host animal its abdomen is so distended that it must fly with difficulty. Once it has started to probe it can be killed or picked off with the fingers quite easily. It is perhaps because of this that the name blind fly came to be used for a fly which has large eyes and is by no means blind.

No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.

America does vaguely feel a man making good as something analogous to a man being good or a man doing good.

A farmer checks the condition of dates in Qira County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 1, 2019.