Priscilla and Peggy, armed with the tin covers of the boxes which had contained the cake and sandwiches, were striking wildly at the advance guard of the hornet army.
For Dorothy who had felt the contagion of the general excitement, and whose fears were complicated by a harrowing uncertainty as to whether a hornet might not be distantly related to a bear, had burst into noisy weeping.
This interesting little hornet is a common summer species, known as the solitary hornet--one of them--Odynerus flavipes.
The flies were motionless in their ecstasy, and the hornet element seemed by common consent to keep temporarily shady, and even the butterflies seemed to forget that they had wings.
I can readily fancy the tiny hornet making a commotion at one end of this leafy domicile and the next instant catching the evicted caterpillar "on a fly" at the other.
But a big black paper-hornet has suddenly seen an attraction hither also, and is soon creeping stealthily among the blossoms with a wild and hungry look.
I observed he had found a new acquaintance--a hornet that had evidently been long desirous of meeting him.
Meanwhile a great black and white paper-hornet has seen his opportunity, and is soon slyly approaching behind the sipper.
The sting of the wasp and hornet is merely pointed, and is not lost during the stinging process so that they can repeat the act.
Rocky mountains on the waters of the Columbia, those build in the ground where they form a nest like the hornet with an outer covering to the Comb in which they deposit their eggs and raise their young.
Columbia; these build in the ground where they form a nest like the hornet with an outer covering to the comb in which they deposit their eggs and raise their young.
The hornet is represented in the United States by the white-faced hornet (V.
Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
His bill--twenty dollars a week for general correspondence, and one hundred dollars a column for the Hornet story--was paid with all good will.
The Hornet disaster was fully told in his letter of June 27th.
He contemplated making a book of his island letters and experiences, and the acceptance by Harper's Magazine of the revised version of the Hornet Shipwreck story encouraged this thought.
On his return to San Francisco he contributed an article on the Hornet disaster to Harper's Magazine, and looked forward to its publication as a beginning of a real career.
In September I took down the nest of the black hornet and found several large queens in it, but the workers had all gone.
The Hornet was levying war against Spain, and therefore subject to arrest.
Our meat bill," said he, taking off his crown and mashing a hornet on the wall, "is sixty days overdue.
Rosewater of the Omaha Bee we will find that of Benjamin Franklin, whose bust sits above the fireplace of the writer at this moment, while a large Etruscan hornet is making a phrenological examination of same.
So one of the thieves climbed up the tree; but when he came close to the nest, and was just reaching up to take hold of it, a hornet flew out and stung him on the thigh.
Just at that moment anotherhornet stung him on the breast, and he clapped his hand there.
The Hornet (but whether or not it was the common species, Vespa crabro, Linn.
And I sent the Hornet before you, which drave them out before you, even the two kings of the Amorites.
Out poured old Mrs. Hornetand all her family, and they had their little needles with them.
Bobby Coon appeared very much astonished to see Reddy in such condition, though of course Johnny Chuck had told him all about how Reddy had run head first into the home of old Mrs. Hornet and her family the day before.
Here are blackberries largest seen, Rich, winey dark, whereon the lean Black hornet sucks, noons sick with heat, That bend not to the shadowed green The heavy bearded wheat.
Dick Culver; "how can a hornetraise the lid of a desk?
While wondering what it meant, and in doubt whether to investigate, he observed a hornet emerging through the key-hole.
Under the eaves above the smithy door an idler was 25 sitting--a mischief-making hornet who heard every word that the Smith said.
He heard the hornet humming and laughing under the eaves.
A male wasp or even a male hornet may be handled with absolute impunity, only it is wise to be certain as to the sex of the individual before presuming to play with it too much!
One often hears people say that they have seen such a large wasp that they think it must have been a hornet, but no one who has ever seen a hornet could mistake a wasp for one.
The hive bee and the social wasps are the only British Hymenoptera which adopt the hexagonal cell-formation in their nests, the bee fashioning its cells in wax, the wasps and hornet in masticated wood or paper.
The hornet also has a beetle associate, but this is a great rarity.
They had, however, but just got their footing upon it, when Rodolphus looked down at his feet and saw a hornet crawling out of a crevice in the side of the stump.
So saying, Rodolphus climbed down from the stump, on the side opposite to where he had seen the hornet come out, and then helped Annie down.
After this, boats kept passing backward and forward for a long time between the Hornet and the shore, which was natural, seeing that a first night in port is a sort of holiday for officers and men.
Then, for the rest of the night, coal was carried out to the Hornet in boats and barges.
Meanwhile the anchor had been raised, and the Hornet was moving towards the harbour mouth.
But he never did, for as the Cormorant cleared the harbour that evening there came an accident to her machinery, and with two days' start the Hornet was on her way to be sold again to a South American Republic.
He made a sign, the gangway was closed, he gave the word for full steam ahead, and the Hornet began to race through the water before Captain Debney guessed his purpose.
As the Hornetcame to anchor the Cormorant saluted her, and she replied instantly.
A muffled thud the pippin fell, And at our feet rolled dusty; A hornet clinging to its bell, The pear lay bruised and rusty.
You learn to control your temper when it is on the high speed, with the throttle jerked wide open and buzzing like a hornet convention.
Spec's he and Brer Hornet had business of their own.
When I saw that Hebrew Jew wouldn't stir his pencil, I jes' crept up softly and dropped Brer Hornet down his neck.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hornet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
