humble-bee

[4006] An ass overwhelmed a thistlewarp's nest, the little bird pecked his galled back in revenge; and the humble-bee in the fable flung down the eagle's eggs out of

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Mounsieur Cobweb, good mounsieur, get you your weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good mounsieur, bring me the honey-bag.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2004

No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta fellow there, whose villanous saffron would have made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in his colour: your daughter-in-law had been alive at this hour, and your son here at home, more advanced by the king than by that red-tailed humble-bee

All’s Well That Ends Well 2004

“Send our youngest child out with my dinner to-day, she has always been good and obedient, and will stay in the right path, and not run about after every wild humble-bee, as her sisters did.”

Household Tales 2003

The humble-bee came a second time, but the hare again rubbed it off and slept on.

Household Tales 2003

There is a kind of humble-bee that builds a cone-shaped nest of clay against a stone or in some similar situation, besmearing the clay with something like spittle.

The History of Animals 2002

Guido kept quite still while the humble-bee was on his knee, knowing that he should not be stung if he did not move.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

The drumming humble-bee [Transcriber's note: bumble-bee?] voice of the crowd below the windows watching Volney Sprague's bulletin suddenly lifted in a lion roar.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

"Oho!" said the humble-bee, rising and preparing to take his departure.

Dreamland Julie Mathilde Lippmann

Guido nearly stepped on a humble-bee -- buzz-zz! the bee was so alarmed he actually crept up Guido's knickers to the knee, and even then knocked himself against a wheat-ear when he started to fly.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker