Upon withdrawing the queen from a hive the workers are thrown into the greatest consternation; they desist from work, run wildly through the hive, and refuse all nourishment.
Instances are known, in which the bees of one hive plunder the bees of another.
The interior of a bee-hive is itself a world of wonders.
They then force the queens towards each other, in order to make them decide the sovereignty of the hive in mortal combat.
The inhabitants of the hive subsist as a regular community.
The bird never deceived them, always guiding them to a hive of bees, though sometimes there was but little honey in it.
The hive has become larger than the house, the bees are destroying their captors; what the locust hath left, the caterpillar hath eaten; and the little house and garden of our friend Jones is in a bad way.
He maintains, with the aid of eager little books by Socialists, that man is really happier in a hive than in a house.
An observation beehive is simply a glass box or hive instead of a wooden one.
When we are not engaged in studying our bee city, the hive must be covered with a blanket as bees prefer to work in the dark.
A single hive will in a few years produce enough swarms to give us a good start as "bee farmers.
The narrow streets swarmed like a hive with men and women in strange Oriental costumes, and our small donkeys knocked them right and left as we plowed through them, urged on by the merciless donkey-boys.
Nothing can be done in the furnishing of the hive until a sufficient quantity of wax has been provided.
Glasgow he reached by one o'clock, and it is related that scarcely a ship-yard or factory in that busy hive of industry resumed work before half-past two.
She said that was first-rate, and she reckoned I would hive the next one.
I felt so ornery and low down and mean that I says to myself, my mind's made up; I'll hive that money for them or bust.
But I better hive it to-night if I can, because the doctor maybe hasn't let up as much as he lets on he has; he might scare them out of here yet.
There were fifteen people crowded together in this hive of snow, and the heat had induced them to throw off the greater part of their clothing.
For almost four thousand years the wooden bee-hive which we call a town had been the workshop of the world.
The old town is a busy hive of industry, with its great centres of banking and mercantile enterprise--Wall, New, and Broad Streets.
Instead of the bee-hive houses of Marangu and Taveta, the Machawe hut is of an exaggerated bell-shape.
There's an enormous swarm in that hive; and they send out two or three young swarms every year; that is one of them in the white, tall hive there at the end of the shed.
You'll see lots of excitement here when a swarm comes out and grandfather has to hive them.
Last year robber bees came out of the woods and attacked that hive with the red cap-piece on it.
Meantime the Old Squire was putting on a veil and gloves, and then came out with a saw in his hand, while Addison brought forth a new hive which had been hurriedly rinsed out with salt and water.
That is the signal when their privileges are invaded by tipstaff or bailiff; and at the blast of the horn they all swarm out to the rescue, as bees when their hive is disturbed.
Not much in it--quite the wrong time of year to take it," said Armitage, as the waxen combs in the hive were disclosed to view.
A dove cooed softly from an adjacent thorn-brake, and bees returning to the old basket hive set in a nook in the wall, made a tuneful hum upon the sensuous air.
BEE HIVE From Dana's Manual of Geology] That shown in Fig.
The descendants of this veryhive probably suggested the poem, Telling the Bees, for it was an old English custom to go straightway to the hive and tell the bees whenever a member of the family died.
Whittier says that the only unusual circumstance about the migration of his Puritan ancestor to New England in 1638 was the fact that he brought over with him a hive of bees.
It was a coincidence that what had been the field of death to two native-born citizens of Dunfermline should be turned into an industrial hive by two others.
New York was the first great hive of human industry among the inhabitants of which I had mingled, and the bustle and excitement of it overwhelmed me.
Some hive of atoms must have found him on the mountain-top and brought him to die here.
As she passed him he caught a glimpse of her face, and--mere hive of atoms though he was--he started after her in a second.
An economic civilization troubles itself about the universe much as a hive of honey-bees troubles about the ocean, only as a region to be avoided.
The hive of Saint Thomas sheltered God and man, mind and matter, the universe and the atom, the one and the multiple, within the walls of an harmonious home.
In the hive into which the host had been put an altar of wax was found, and a sacred relic lying thereon.
One day, walking near the hive into which he had put the host, the bees came out, and stung him nearly to death.
This is the infernalest hive of infernally costumed barbarians I have ever come across yet.
Illustration: A Merry Christmas to You] [Illustration: WILD BEES OF THE WOOD ARE WE; BUT OUR HIVE YOU MUST NOT SEE.
WILD bees of the wood are we; But our hive you must not see: Here behold our happy home, Where we labor, where we roam.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
