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It is occasionally chilly, foggy in winter, and sometimes uncomfortably hot and mosquitoey in summer.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the gadflies that made official Washington miserable in World War I was the crackpot inventor, buzzing with mosquitoey ideas for winning the war�schemes for crashproof airplanes, inescapable torpedoes, mole-burrowing bombs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes we paddled a mile or more before finding one to our minds, for where the shore was suitable the bank would often be too steep, or else too low and grassy, and therefore mosquitoey.

From Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David