Like angrybees they girt me round; When God appears they fly: So burning thorns, with crackling sound, Make a fierce blaze and die.
Like bees my foes beset me round, A large and angry swarm; But I shall all their rage confound By thine almighty arm.
The lion must be killed before the bees can build the honeycomb in the carcass.
Some time later he was passing that way and found that a swarm of bees had entered the dried carcass of the lion and made their abode there, and he took of the honey and went on his way.
All hands employ'd, the royal work grows warm: Like labouring bees on a long summer's day, Some sound the trumpet for the rest to swarm.
But the bees stung no one, and Trouble said the ants could have his bread.
He knows how to take care of bees and he calls them the poor man's pasture cattle.
Just look," said she to the queen, "how fond the bees are of our child.
When they find that Grubersepp keeps company with me, they'll come flocking back, just like bees to a mellow pear.
This was one of the fine young rakish fellows from Lunnun as were always swarming about my Lady, like bees over that maybush.
I learned, upon inquiring of the housekeeper, that the bees had been properly informed of Mr. R.
I found that in my own family, upon the death of my mother, some five-and-twenty years ago, the bees were duly informed of the event.
Has it never appeared strange to the observer of a new swarm, that at the time when comb-building is proceeding more rapidly than at any other period, the bees are loaded with but little of this substance?
Through the cover are three openings, cut as a passage upward for the bees into a super.
If, instead of water alone, a fifth to a fourth part of vinegar is mixed with it, the process is expedited; and when thus made, the bees appear to give it a preference.
In the mean time, the bees will have commenced a new labour--that of collecting pollen or farina.
Refuse honey may be given to the bees in the combs, piled in a pan, a little separated, and covered by a box or hive.
And now the exertions of the beesare called into action for the purpose of promoting ventilation, and expelling the vitiated air.
We shall have occasion hereafter to notice the fondness of bees for barley-sugar: let a piece of this be laid across, or just within, the entrance of the hive, so as greatly to narrow it.
Imagine five or six bees brought up apart, outside the laws, regulations, and constitution of the hive; imagine further that of these groups of bees there were several hundreds in the hive.
In March, 1882, I observed that they were in bloom, and many bees were swarming about them.
After the bees left them I noticed the seed (specimens inclosed of this spring's growth) in millions.
Trill me a moonlight roundelay, such as inspires the feet of fairies; make me see the wood violets nodding in the warm dusk, and let me hear the drone of bees in the tiger-lily's cup.
One generation after another fall like honey-bees upon this memorable forest, rifle its sweets, pack themselves with vital memories, and when the theft is consummated depart again into life richer, but poorer also.
His old host, Pierre Manton, the manager of the place, sat talking to him in a soft, rhythmic monotone; but his speech was hardly more of an interruption than the hum of the bees among the roses.
A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly.
When all the beesare gone to settle, You clatter still your brazen kettle.
He discovered that male bees come from the unfertilised, and femalebees only from the fertilised, eggs.
The moral is--morals cluster like bees round certain individuals--that we must not ponder too deeply the meanings of men like Wentworth.
There was a distant stir, a movement as of waking bees in the house.
The Bees haste away to the moors, And eager their task to complete, Extract from the bells of the flowers, Their delicate essences sweet.
THE BEES The Sun throws his ray on the lake, The vessels are scudding along; Before half the city's awake, The air is all action and song!
I am afraid I looked at the work of the ideal bees from too near a view, I well know that I think, but I no longer know what I think.
You make my head swim trying to remember, and the bumble-bees are black-faced, instead of white, and stinging me dreadfully.
Yes, Gretchen; it is her last letter to me, and I never went back to see what she meant, for the bees were bad in my head and I forgot everything, even Gretchen herself.
Then he questioned her of the park house and of Arthur; asking if the bees were often in his head now, or had she driven them out.
Don't let the bees get into your brain and swarm and buzz until you forget everything.
His manner frightened her; perhaps the bumble-bees were coming out, and she drew back from him, forgetting entirely what she had said.
He told me, to protect the bees from the sun: it was upon a much larger scale than we generally now see, indicating that the soil, &c.
It is urged by intelligent naturalists that it is utterly useless, as bees have no sense of hearing.
In the background sat the musicians, bees and grasshoppers, that the dwarfs had caught in the forest.
The bees buzzed and hummed like flutes and trombones, the grasshoppers chirped like fiddles.
Phyl understanding little, and half drowsed by the warmth and the buzzing of the bees and the voice of the speaker, had given herself up to that lazy condition of mind which is the next best thing to sleep, when she was suddenly aroused.
Then he questioned her of the park house and of Arthur, asking if the bees were often in his head now, or had she driven them out.
It is her last letter to me, and I never went back to see what she meant, for the bees were bad in my head and I forgot everything, even Gretchen herself.
Don't let the beesget into your brain and swarm and buzz until you forget everything which you ought to remember; and do things you ought not to do.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
