 ... community; as if the bees would carry through the similitude of their habits with those of laborious and gainful man, I beheld numbers from rival hives, arriving on eager wing, to enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbors.  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1831841Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - Authors, American - 1849 - 394 pages
...enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbors. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven...proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart to do any thing, not even to taste the nectar that flowed around them; but crawled backwards and forwards,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1849 - 278 pages
...enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbors. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven...proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart to do any thing, not even to taste the nectar that flowed round them ; but crawled backwards and forwards,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1849 - 390 pages
...enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbors. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven...proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart to do any thing, not even to taste the nectar that flowed around them; but crawled backwards and forwards,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1849 - 276 pages
...enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbors. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven on shore ; plunging into the cells of the broken houey-combs, banqueting greedily on the spoil, and then winging their way full freighted to their homes.... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pages
...wing, to enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbours. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerily as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has...into the cells of the broken honeycombs, banqueting grtedily on the spoil, and then winging their way full freighted to their homes. As to the poor proprietors... | |
 | 1835 - 592 pages
...wing, to enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbours. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerily as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has...plunging into the cells of the broken honey-combs, Iranqueuing greedily on the spoil, and then winging their way full freighted to their homes. As to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 398 pages
...enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbors. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven...proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart to do any thing, not even to taste the nectar that flowed around them ; but crawled backwards and forwards,... | |
 | Thomas James - 1852 - 114 pages
...wing, to enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbours. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerily as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has...greedily on the spoil, and then winging their way full-freighted to their homes. As to the poor proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1855 - 268 pages
...enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbors. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven...proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart to do ' any thing, not even to taste the nectar that flowed round them ; but crawled backwards and forwards,... | |
 | Adventure stories - 1861 - 296 pages
...enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbors. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven...the broken honey-combs, banqueting greedily on the spoils, and then winging their way full freighted to their homes. As to the poor proprietors of the... | |
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