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In our digital world falsehood flies first class via hyperlinks, Tweets, texts, and The View.

And a third is that we all paused a second to look at the red glow over Baltimore, 35 miles away as the crow flies.

As tradition dictates, the Royal Standard flies there only when the sovereign is in residence.

Buzzards are all flying around pecking at them, and there are insects and flies, and you can see blood on the ground.

The aircraft stops once to clear South African customs, then flies on to Botswana.

A germ flies from a stagnant pool, and the laughing child, its mother's darling, dies dreadfully of diphtheria.

They must be kept away from flies—a fly can work havoc with a film in a few minutes.

I went into the dugout indescribably slack; hardly energy to struggle against the heat and the myriads of flies.

The destroyers and picket boats were round her as smart as flies settle on a lump of sugar, and there was no loss of life.

No escape from the steadily rising flood of letters and files,—none from the swarms of filthy flies.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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