 ... 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 - West (U.S.) - 1868 - 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...then 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 tasto... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1872 - 264 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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 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; plun«injr into the cells of the broken if OC honey-combs, banqueting greedily on the spoil, and then... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 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 on shore — plunging in the cells of the broken honeycombs, banqueting greedily on the spoil, and then winging their way... | |
 | James F. Robinson - Bee culture - 1880 - 268 pages
...neighbours. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerily as so many wreckers on an Indiaman which has been driven on shore — plunging into the cells of the broken combs, banqueting greedily on the spoil, and then winging their way full-freighted to their homes.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 902 pages
...themselves with the ruins of their neighbors. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so mauy wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven on shore...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 - Abbotsford (B.C.) - 1882 - 392 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 evevi to taste the nectar that flowed around them; but crawled backwards and forwards,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 910 pages
...the ruins of their neighbors These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so man; wrenkers on an Indiaman that has been driven on shore; plunging...proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart to do any thing, not &veu to taste the nectar th&J flowed around them ; but crawled backwards and forwards,... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - Elocution - 1884 - 442 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...then winging their way full freighted to their homes. 9. As to the poor proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart to do anything, not even to... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, W. B. Powell - 1890 - 522 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... | |
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