mayfly

This is the day in the life of the mayfly.

You never saw just one: they went around in groups, like mayflies.

I had come with my friends to the river hoping to find a small mayfly.

What everyone looked at as the way things are done, had, in fact, no more true substance than a mayfly.

Like mayflies, the multitude would not live out the day.

These are generally rather small mayflies with three long tails.

I'd seen it gulp a man down like a mayfly.

This woman and her daughter over in Mayfly went to visit kin for a week.

I remember when it was better fields,' said the old mayfly sharply.

They do not appear to be held straight up as in butterflies or mayflies.

Poor little child; he flickered into life and out of it like a mayfly.

He felt that he was no more significant than a mayfly.

"Only because he believes we're the last mayflies he'll see.

My question is why do living organisms, such as a mayfly compared to a human being, live for a different amount of time?

If people died the way mayflies do, we'd probably leave this world less protestingly.

"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.

To a mayfly, a single hour May last as long as a century.

And I hear he's got the life expectancy of a mayfly."

A lot of good people, good mayflies, died that day.

He was also a world authority on the mayfly.

The oldest of the young mayflies watched the water thoughtfully.

The mayflies rose and fell, always a little nearer to the river's surface.

The dead mayflies fall onto the fans below, obscuring their view.

Some of them will probably have the life span of a mayfly.

Which of you puny mayfly men will stand against me now?"