Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several large leeches of the genus Haemopis.
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Examples
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Away flew the wire strands length after length -- ocean was indeed insatiable -- 'More!' and 'More!' cried the daughter of horseleech from the black night of waters, and still the rope descended.
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Would hang on their ears like a horseleech, till I were full, and
Marshall Grossman: FISA and the Caterpillars of the State 2008
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The railroad and telegraph corporations know that, in putting on “all that the traffic will bear,” they are taking from this country more than the people can stand; yet their only answer is that of the horseleech….
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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The railroad and telegraph corporations know that, in putting on “all that the traffic will bear,” they are taking from this country more than the people can stand; yet their only answer is that of the horseleech….
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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The railroad and telegraph corporations know that, in putting on “all that the traffic will bear,” they are taking from this country more than the people can stand; yet their only answer is that of the horseleech….
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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The railroad and telegraph corporations know that, in putting on “all that the traffic will bear,” they are taking from this country more than the people can stand; yet their only answer is that of the horseleech….
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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The railroad and telegraph corporations know that, in putting on “all that the traffic will bear,” they are taking from this country more than the people can stand; yet their only answer is that of the horseleech….
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Here is expressed the extremity of necessitous extortions, figured in the ancient fable of the full and the hungry horseleech.
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The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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"The horseleech has two daughters, crying, Give! give!"
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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