The day degenerated, and closed in still, hot rain; the air was stifling and electric, the saddle slipped constantly from being too big, the shoes were more than usually troublesome, the Horseflies tormented, and the men and horses crawled.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
She watched two great Horseflies buzzing against a window-pane, and when she could endure that no longer, she went into the front room and stared vacantly around at the bare walls.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Beetles, spiders, and wood-lice held a carnival in my room after dark, and the presence of horses in the same house brought a number of Horseflies.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)