But, how did a ship without weapons, a fly speck next to one of the huge freighters, capture it?

From that altitude, the whitecaps were mere fly specks on the dark blue water.

A fly speck on a pile of elephant dung was Calusa, Florida.

"A world is nothing here, a fly speck."

"It says here," he announced, "that the end comes late in August unless that's a fly speck."

"I don't notice you studying the fly specks on the ceiling."

He brushed aside a couple of fly specks.

"The towns are like fly specks and the cities are like flies."

On the general chart it is only a fly speck.

It was transparent plastic-styrene, probably-and there wasn't even a fly speck in it.