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Definition of Flypapers
1. flypaper [n] - See also: flypaper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flypapers
Literary usage of Flypapers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Necessity for Criminal Appeal: As Illustrated by the Maybrick Case and by Florence Elizabeth Chandler Maybrick, Joseph Hiam Levy (1899)
"Before Brierley—that is Brierley the housemaid—saw the flypapers in the morning,
Yapp saw the fly-papers on the washstand in the principal bedroom by the ..."
2. The Maybrick Case: A Treatise ... on the Facts of the Case, and of the by Alexander William Macdougall (1891)
"... Battle- crease House, and at which she was well-known (Mr. James Maybrick
having been a regular customer for years), a dozen flypapers, at 6d. a dozen. ..."
3. Book-prices Current: A Record of Prices at which Books Have Been Sold at Auction (1899)
"... with the arms of Pope Clement XI. in the centre, gilt flypapers, gilt edges,
a fine specimen of early i8th century Italian binding, Roma, 1712, 410. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"When combined with potash or soda it is used to saturate flypapers, and strong
solutions can be obtained by soaking these in water; this fact has also been ..."
5. Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years by Florence Elizabeth Chandler Maybrick (1905)
"... and to avoid any consequent annoyance she extracted the necessary small quantity
of arsenic by the soaking of flypapers. I had never had occasion to do ..."
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