In June she spent her time in sippingnectar from the onion flowers or from the sorrel that grew on the border of the garden.
The happy pair feed on ambrosia and nectar supplied for them gratuitously, and have no fears based upon bread and butter or other provender, which troubles us mortals so much to provide for ourselves.
Of the nectar his island affords, The soul of the feast and the joy of the guest, Too good for your monarchs and lords.
Though mountains rise, or rocks intrude, This nectar smooths the roughest road, And cheers the heart, and warms the blood Through all its tides.
In summer when the insects were hard at work making honey and gatheringnectar the water loss was twenty five times as great.
Only a bowl of golden fruit remained--globes of nectar picked in the citrus groves of California that morning.
Habitations full of food are provided for them to commence housekeeping with; and cups of nectar and luscious fruits await them every day.
Nectar was the drink of the old Greek gods, of whom Jupiter was the chief.
Full in his song the minstrel stayed to sip The heavenlier nectarof his darling's lip.
A greedy bee kept hovering round to sip The fragrant nectar of her blooming lip.
Approach and take, O glorious King, This heavenly nectar which I bring, For it shall give thee sons and wealth, And bless thee with a store of health.
Part of the nectar that remained Sumitrá from his hand obtained.
To steal the lustre from her sparkling eye; And in thy circling movements hover near, To murmur tender secrets in her ear; Or, as she coyly waves her hand, to sip Voluptuous nectar from her lower lip!
Gods; The nectar crowns the lips of Patience; Haste scatters on unthankful sods The immortal gift in vain libations.
How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives a divine life.
Such water do the gods distil, And pour down every hill For their New England men; A draught of this wild nectar bring, And I'll not taste the spring Of Helicon again.
He has filled nectar so long, till his brain swims in it.
The flowing nectarthat had grac'd The centre of the whole, And so enlivened every guest, Had death within the bowl.
Pillow, of 22 Blair Street, Newcastle, had appeared, to the effect that three bottles of Rand's Peach Nectar had cured her of dropsy.
The one sure thing about the statement was that Rand's Peach Nectarcould be had, in large or small quantities, as desired.
Impulsively he seized the nectar of the gods, called Soma, and drank a deep draught of that intoxicating juice.
Soma was the intoxicating juice of the now unknown Soma plant, which inspired mortals and was the nectar of the gods.
They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects.
To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
It did, in this case, and possibly Calypso meant it should do so all along--administered her little dose of nectar with a full knowledge of its powers as an intoxicant.
The utter satisfaction of his thirst for speech about himself and his plight was so much sheer nectar to him while it lasted.
Yellow loose-strifes and rattle-box are in the swamp, and a patch of swamp milkweed with brilliant fritillaries sipping nectar from its purple blossoms.
Beholding them from afar, honey bees came on humming wings for the nectar lying deep in their tiny florets.
Or, is the flower which provided the nectar and placed the nectar-guides just at the right place on the bright blossoms, as special allurements for the senses of the bee, the more to be admired for its intelligence?
Cultivated and along river bottoms: honey yield of little importance; external nectar glands; pollen from flowers.
Nectar glands on ribs of leaves and on bracts of buds, blooms and bolls.
The avaricious bee that despised the slow process of extracting nectar from "every opening flower," and plunged recklessly into the tempting sweets, has ample time to bewail its folly.
All Olympus embraced in your arms-- All its nectar in Julia's breathing.
Twas not my nectarmade thy strength divine, But 'twas thy strength which made my nectar thine!
Solitary but to the lowly-living, in its own sphere there is immortal companionship, and this vast hall of the heavens, and many a draught of nectar borne by young Ganymede.
Nourished by the nectar which you will pour in passing from your crystal cups, Death shall have no dominion over me, but I shall go on from strength to strength and from glory to glory.
I don't know what real nectar is, but that water was nectarto me, although the horses sniffed and at first refused to drink it.
