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Sand Flies or Sand Fleas: Sandflies are tiny, biting bugs that mostly are irksome and are commonly found along the beaches of California and Florida.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: The Hidden Dangers of Bug Bites M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Sand Flies or Sand Fleas: Sandflies are tiny, biting bugs that mostly are irksome and are commonly found along the beaches of California and Florida.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: The Hidden Dangers of Bug Bites M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Sand Flies or Sand Fleas: Sandflies are tiny, biting bugs that mostly are irksome and are commonly found along the beaches of California and Florida.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: The Hidden Dangers of Bug Bites M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Sandflies and mosquitoes abounded, and the former used to make
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Sandflies always swarm in places where underwood and tall grasses exclude the draughts, and the only remedy is clearing the land.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Sandflies do not venture into the dark huts, and a “smudge” keeps them aloof, but the disease is more tolerable than the remedy of inflaming the eyes with acrid smoke and of sitting in a close box, by courtesy termed
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Sandflies and mosquitoes abounded, and the former used to make Burton
The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906
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Sandflies and mosquitoes abounded, and the former used to make Burton "come out all over lumps."
The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897
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Sandflies do not venture into the dark huts, and a "smudge" keeps them aloof, but the disease is more tolerable than the remedy of inflaming the eyes with acrid smoke and of sitting in a close box, by courtesy termed a room, when the fine pure air makes one pine to be beyond walls.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Sandflies always swarm in places where underwood and tall grasses exclude the draughts, and the only remedy is clearing the land.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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