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Example sentences for "honey"

Lexicographically close words:
honestie; honestly; honesto; honestum; honesty; honeybee; honeycomb; honeycombed; honeycombs; honeydew
  1. Roth describes a pantomime in which three young girls take part, and which is imitative of the felling of a tree for the purpose of securing honey stored by bees in a hollow limb.

  2. The whole episode is graphically mimicked, down to the mixing of the honey with water as a beverage.

  3. Emperor Barbarossa--The Wedding of the Adriatic "All the golden cities Overflowing with honey .

  4. I was attacked at the same time with a violent fit of fever, during which I was made to take a mixture of honey and bark (the cortex Angosturae): a remedy much extolled in the country by the Capuchin missionaries.

  5. The Suapure, full of little cascades, is celebrated among the Indians for the quantity of wild honey obtained from the forests in its neighbourhood.

  6. Honey bees and butterflies visit the yellow mesquite flowers, quail roost in the branches, and wood rats collect mesquite beans in tremendous numbers.

  7. Mesquites often mass together in thickets, and they do very well in the drier soils of arroyos, often rubbing thorns with acacias, a family of sweet-smelling, flowering trees and shrubs attractive to honey bees and hummingbirds.

  8. Another water-loving plant prevalent along the river and dry washes is honey mesquite, a feathery, thorned shrub- or tree-sized member of the pea family.

  9. At the water’s edge honey bees are collecting moisture to water-cool their hive.

  10. Such are the eastern cottonwoods with their heart-shaped leaves, the evergreen live oaks and smooth sycamores, the sweet-smelling honey locust and eucalyptus trees, and that fine green carpet of Bermuda grass.

  11. My mistress is but a woman after all, and they say women are more easily mastered by the strong hand, than lured by the honey lip.

  12. I too, though the words drop not like honey from my beard as from his, have a right to be heard.

  13. So that we may accumulate statistics as to the cost of milk and honey in Jerusalem the Golden!

  14. Jerusalem the golden, With milk and honey blest!

  15. The bees also have comfortable towns, and lay up a store of honey to support them when the flowers die, and snow covers the ground: and this forecast is as much the gift of God, as any quality you possess.

  16. Then he came without fear, for he knew he was the only man who could take off the honey from the village hives to the satisfaction of the parish.

  17. Sometimes a lonely dove Calleth her mate, or droning honey thieves Weigh down the bluebell's nodding campanule; And ever singeth through the twilight cool Low voice of water and the stir of leaves.

  18. Honey and Gold Leaf equal parts, Turpentine until the Gold is reduced to the finest possible state of division, agitate with thirty parts Hot Water and allow it to settle.

  19. The leaves came out of the honey which had held them and the tiger saw that it was really the monkey.

  20. The monkey had, in the meantime, stuck leaves from the trees into the honey all over his body so that he was completely disguised.

  21. The old woman did not miss him until she got home and found only part of her dish of honey in the basket.

  22. After a while an old woman came along the path carrying a dish of honey in a basket upon her head.

  23. When the monkey saw that it was honey in the dish he was very happy.

  24. And that makes me think of putting the honey in the wagon and taking it to town.

  25. Out of this she takes a bowl of chicken broth, a jar of ambrosial jelly, a cake of delectable honey and a bottle of celestial raspberry shrub.

  26. He had brought his honey to town to sell.

  27. So they left him on guard there and, repairing to the city, fetched vessels, which they filled with honey and loading their asses therewith, carried them to the streets and sold the contents.

  28. Before marriage the bridegroom trains himself for a month on beef, honey and milk; and, if he can open his bride with the natural weapon, he is a sworder to whom no woman in the tribe can deny herself.

  29. In childhood's days we tasted the honey of many things for the first time.

  30. Greedy Bruin thought he was sure to sup out all the honey at one breath.

  31. We might as well try to get honey out of sand as to get good or evil out of the blank nature.

  32. I took a very small pot of honey for Miss Benette; Millicent had begged it for me of Lydia, who was queen-bee of the store-closet.

  33. It was so we always ate honey at Aronach's, and it is so I eat it to this day.

  34. Come, eat your bread with joy, and march onward with a merry heart; for the land which floweth with milk and honey is but a little way before you.

  35. Draw the honey out of the comb of Scripture, and live on its sweetness.

  36. All the difference in the honey was this: in Romalia the bees fed more on clover, and the honey tasted of clover: and in the country across the river on peppermint, and that honey tasted of peppermint.

  37. Buckwheat is an example of dark, rich honey and white clover and raspberry blooms of clear, translucent honey.

  38. They know also that while the bee makes its honey from the flower, it will also make honey from sugar and molasses.

  39. Few things in nature can be more beautiful than the nectary and the honey drops in the crown imperial.

  40. Darwin considers the honey secreted by the nectary to be the natural food with which the stamens and pistils are nourished.

  41. This would indicate that the honey undergoes some chemical change in the making, as the bees, in these instances, were not injured by the flowers, yet the honey they made from them was injurious to man.

  42. The form of the honey sac, or nectary, differs with different flowers.

  43. The tint of the cup gives the drop its hue and each one looks a splendid pearl fastened in the crown of each of the flowers of the crown imperial which, hanging down, only display the pearly honey drops when we look up into the flower.

  44. Others assert that the only use of honey with which flowers are supplied is to tempt insects, which, in procuring it, scatter the dust of the anthers and fertilize the flowers, and even carry the pollen from barren to fertile flowers.

  45. The bee makes the honey from what is abstracted from the flower, and also preserves life and makes honey from sweets that are given it for food.

  46. Mr. Abbott, writing from the same country in 1833, says he witnessed the same effects of honey upon those partaking of it as Xenophon describes.

  47. Its smell, when that the top was lifted up, Rose up, a fragrance not unmix'd with honey Most grateful to our nostrils, still being hot.

  48. And Alcæus says-- Wine sometimes than honey sweeter, Sometimes more than nettles bitter.

  49. And bread and honey was the chief food of the Pythagoreans, according to the statement of Aristoxenus, who says that those who eat this for breakfast were free from disease all their lives.

  50. Chrysocolla are a food made of honey and flax.

  51. If her way through the world was not so thickly bordered with brilliant flowers, humbler blossoms lined it, and she gathered as sweet honey from these as ever from their gayer sisters.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.