gadfly

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Any (l) insect or fly of the family (taxfmt) (commonly known as a botfly) or (taxfmt) (horsefly), noted for irritating animals by buzzing about them, and biting them to suck their blood; a gadbee.

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(RQ:Harvey Pierces Supererogation)
(RQ:Thomson Summer)
(RQ:Emerson Essays)
(quote-book)|year=2005|page=48|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=uQw4x3fHPLEC&pg=PA48|isbn=978-0-8387-5626-3|passage=Vengeful (w) transformed her &91;(mythology)|Io&93; into an animal (a beautiful cow), and imposed upon her the company of a gadfly to sting her continuously, thus forcing her to escape on an endless pilgrimage.
A person or thing that irritates or instigates.
(RQ:Massinger Dekker Virgin Martyr)
A person who upsets the quo by posing novel or upsetting questions, or attempts to stimulate innovation by being an irritant.

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(quote-book)
(quote-book) The logic of Pearson|Charles Pearson's arguments was accepted, up to a point, by a consortium of businessmen. In August 1854, (..) the consortium obtained royal assent for (..) the Metropolitan Railway. (..) In 1859, when it looked as though the Metropolitan Railway Company would be wound up with no line built, he Pearson wrote a pamphlet: ''A Twenty Minutes Letter to the Citizens of London in Favour of the Metropolitan Railway and City Station''. Gadfly he may have been, but by this 'letter' he persuaded the Corporation of London to invest £200,000 in the line, a most unusual example of a public body investing in a Victorian railway.
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(RQ:Chapman Eastward Hoe)
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
(RQ:Richardson Grandison)
A person who takes without giving back; a bloodsucker.

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