They're swatting the fly and the skeeter and gnat, As frost never kills them in Medicine Hat.
"The So-called Human Race"
Bert Leston Taylor
He let out that Myler was on the beer to run up the odds and he swatting all the time.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
You don't want to think I haven't any just because I don't stand there and make a long speech to the ball before swatting it."
"The Wrong Twin"
Harry Leon Wilson