Flies
Flies noun - Theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains.
Snakes
Both words in one sentence
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The cover picture showed Gaia surrounded by "good nature"; green shoots, flowers, butterflies and doves, and Evil Gaia surrounded by "bad nature"; black roots, flies, carrion birds, and snakes.
Source: Reptiles Are Abhorrent - This also explains why the cute animals will be namedropped more easily than icky creatures like snakes, bats, rats, crocodiles, toads, spiders, mosquitoes, flies, squids and jellyfish.
- Two snakes which were transformed into humans are threatening Magrat, who is usually an utter wimp and tends to shrink from conflict, then they back her into a corner and she punches one of them so hard that it flies through air and then clubs the other on the head.
Source: Cornered Rattlesnake
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