Sentence examples for flea man from inspiring English sources

But her father was a flea man.

In National Geographic's "Flea Man," which had a brief run this summer, people kept crumpling with joy and despair.

8 P.M. (National Geographic) FLEA MAN Jimmy Kaplow has built a career on helping people turn trash from attics and garages into treasures -- and profits -- at local flea markets.

Another "Flea Man" seller sobbed when helpers at his booth told a buyer the wrong price for an iron coat rack; she paid $50 and walked off with it, although it was worth about $500.

Inside a flea market a man spun stories about his foster father, who had died, by randomly picking up the man's belongings and musing on them.

In 1933, the newspaperman Stanley Walker wrote, "There are chow-meineries, peep shows for men only, flea circuses, lectures on what killed Rudolf Valentino, jitney ballrooms and a farrago of other attractions which would have sickened the heart of the Broadwayite of even ten years ago".

The trench warfare in 1914 to 1918 exposed men to flea and lice infestations, which prompted the order to cut short hair, establishing a military tradition.

The Giants' only blunder was a failed flea-flicker that Manning fumbled during the second possession.

Both were at the flea market, offered by a man who specializes in what he calls "the sorts of things that are not for everyone".

Boasting all the while of his prowess as a conqueror, but behaving, while he boasts, less intelligently than the flea or even the hookworm, man, the acculturated parasite, is now busily engaged in murdering his host.

Pretty uptown blondes and dowagers in pearls mingle with toothless crones and panhandlers, as models parade in their foundation garments, and a man with a flea circus puts his tiny performers through their paces.