 ... 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
 | Bee culture - 1867 - 378 pages
...enrich themselves with the ruin 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 honey combs, banqueting greedily on the spoil, and then winging their way full freighted to their homes.... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1861 - 384 pages
...enrich themselves1 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 j plunging into the cells of the broken honey-combs, banqueting greedily on the spoil, and then winging... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...enrich themselves with the ruin of their neighbours. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven...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... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pages
...enrich themselves with the ruin of their neighbours. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven...taste the nectar that flowed around them ; but crawled backward and forward in vacant desolation, as I have seen a poor fellow with his hands in his breeches'... | |
 | John Cumming - Bees - 1864 - 278 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 - Authors, American - 1865 - 498 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...to do anything, not even to taste the nectar that (lowed around them ; but crawled backwards and forwards, in vacant desolation, ns I have seen a poor... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, American - 1866 - 462 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...poor proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have uo heart to do anything, not even to taste the nectar that flowed around them ; but crawled backwards... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 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...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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven oil shore; plunging into the cells of the broken honey-combs,...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 - West (U.S.) - 1868 - 478 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...winging their way^ full freighted to their homes. Aa .to the poor proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart to do anything, not even to taste... | |
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