 ... the bees of the bankrupt hive who had been absent at the time of the catastrophe, and who arrived, from time to time, with full cargoes from abroad. At first they wheeled about...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1831841Full view - About this book
 | Tales - Adventure and adventurers - 1858 - 168 pages
...where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down...in clusters on a dry branch of a neighbouring tree, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz forth doleful Lamentations over the... | |
 | Bee culture - 1867 - 378 pages
...where the fallen ' tree had once reared its head, astonished at linding it all a vacunm. At length, as if comprehending their- disaster, they settled down in clusters on a dry branch of a neighboring tree, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...where their fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down...lamentations over the downfall of their republic. We now abandoned the place, leaving much honey in the hollow of the tree. " It will all be cleared... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pages
...where their fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down...over the downfall of their republic. It was a scene on which the "melancholy Jaques " might have moralised by the hour. We now abandoned the place, leaving... | |
 | John Cumming - Bees - 1864 - 278 pages
...place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down...over the downfall of their republic. It was a scene on which the 'melancholy Jaques' might have moralised by the hour." — Tour in Prairies, ch. ix. BEE... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down in clusters on a dry branch of a neighboring tree, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...branch of a neighboring tree, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz fbrth doleful lamentations over the downfall of their republic. It was a scene on which the "melancholy Jacques" might have moralized by the hour. 10. We now abandoned the place,... | |
 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - Readers - 1868 - 510 pages
...where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down in clusters on a dry branch of a neighboring tree, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1872 - 264 pages
...pocket, whistling vacantly and despondingly about the ruins of his house that had been burnt. bending their disaster, they settled down in clusters on a...over the downfall of their republic. It was a scene on which the " melancholy Jacques " might have moralised by the hour. We now abandoned the place, leaving... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down in clusters on a dry branch of a neighboring tree, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buza forth doleful lamentations... | |
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