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I am from Romania and know bad English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “Book cheap airline tickets to domestic destinations, cruise packages, hotels, car rentals and vacation packages at flyless.”
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Today, 38 percent of the underwear it sells is colored, and 15 percent is flyless.
Guys, Need a Lift? 2007
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For example, a flyless, odourless improved latrine may be far preferable to a flush toilet and septic tank where the water supply is intermittent.
Chapter 6 1992
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For example, a flyless, odourless improved latrine may be far preferable to a flush toilet and septic tank where the water supply is intermittent.
Chapter 5 1992
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A solemn-nosed, stern-eyed cow would amble and stamp in his wood to find a flyless shadow; or a strayed sheep would poke its gentle muzzle through leaves.
Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens 1916
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And so we have evolved a cool, flyless place for our pans of milk, meats, cooked and uncooked, fresh vegetables, cakes, pastry, etc.
The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907
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Give him the ideal of cool, flyless cleanliness in a room.
Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905
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That night as we lay beneath the stars, flyless once again, we listened to the proprietors sing along to a recording of strange, serene Aboriginal music.
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That night as we lay beneath the stars, flyless once again, we listened to the proprietors sing along to a recording of strange, serene Aboriginal music.
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