gad-bee

The ass dreadfully opened its wide jaws, drove away the flies that plagued it, winced, flounced, went back, and bestirred itself in a most terrible manner, as if some damned gad-bee had stung it at the breech.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The ass dreadfully opened its wide jaws, drove away the flies that plagued it, winced, flounced, went back, and bestirred itself in a most terrible manner, as if some damned gad-bee had stung it at the breech.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

OEstrum is not only a Greek word for madness, but signifies also a gad-bee or horse-fly, that torments cattle in the summer, and makes them run about as if they were mad.

Hudibras Samuel Butler 1646

The ass dreadfully opened its wide jaws, drove away the flies that plagued it, winced, flounced, went back, and bestirred itself in a most terrible manner, as if some damned gad-bee had stung it at the breech.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518