If I tell him," said Gwyn; and, an empty skep being hooked on just then, the engineer grinned as Gwyn went to it and bade the dog jump in.
Quickly as you can," shouted the Colonel, as the skep went down; but the engineer shook his head.
Another signal was sent up, and the wheel began to revolve, the wire rope tightened, and the empty skep descended.
Vores stepped to the skep and laid his hand on the rail just as the last lanthorn was lit and snapped to, when there was the sharp ting on the gong again--the signal from below--and the men gave a hearty cheer.
There was another roar of laughter which made Dinass look viciously round, his eyes lighting sharply on the dog, which had gone close up to the opening where the skep would rise, and kept on whining anxiously.
He kept on bursting into loud fits of barking till the ascending skep appeared, when he bounded away among the men, barking, snarling and growling savagely, for the only occupant of the skep was Dinass.
Smells his master," said Vores; and the dog then uttered a sharp bark as the top of the skep appeared with the link and iron bands attached to the wire rope.
He couldn't have climbed down the ladders or got into the skep of his own accord, and, if he had, they wouldn't have let him down.
An apiary of a single skep in a roped-off enclosure was an illustration of unfamiliarity with bees.
The skep full was indeed a wonderful feast for them, they bit greedily into the heavy scented comb, their jaws were drowned in the sticky flood of sweetness, and they gorged themselves on it without restraint.
When they had crunched up the last morsel they tore the skep in pieces, and for hours afterwards they were happily employed in licking themselves clean.
While he lit it he kept his great bee-skep on his head (they all wore them), but I noticed he had three blue rings tattooed on his left ring-finger.
Berry's hand had been upon the skep and the jolt had aroused the bees.
Or keep the new hive steady while we shake the bees out of the skep into it.
Nea mair he'll coom to your skep of a morn, Bees, bees, murmurin' low.
Straw skep in section, showing arrangement of Combs A, Vertical section.
Fig 11 shows a straw skep in section, and explains itself as illustrating the admirable way in which the bees furnish their dwelling.
De skepdat I kam in was a lang tym o de see cumin oure heir, but plissis pi Got for a'ting wi a kepit our heels unco weel, pat Shonie Magwillivray dat hat ay sair heet.
For an hour or two there circled round the deserted skep a few hundred odd bees who had apparently been out when the second decision to migrate was taken, and found themselves homeless and queenless.
Then perhaps they found the skep too hot, perhaps they detected the odour of previous tenants, perhaps--but who can read the thoughts of these inscrutable creatures?
If only the creatures would make themselves at home in the skepfor a day or two.
Suddenly the skep was enveloped in a cyclone of bees, and again the orchard sang with the exciting song of the wings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skep" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
