By extracting the Sting of the Animal, if it is left behind.
Somehow even the sting of the visiting girl's laugh and of Raymond's defection seemed to have subsided into triviality.
She was afraid to move lest it sting her more viciously.
Ah, mortal downfalls lose theirsting When World and Heart hear the call of Spring!
But Aristotle writeth, that the same is possible among Bées, hauing the sting (although they haue no bladder) to breath by their sting.
That the Bees sting no person comming neere to cap.
That the Bees sting no person, comming neare their Hiues.
Let me add, that the sole purpose of my clandestine marriage was to sting her grandfather's mind with the belief that HIS family had been dishonored, even as he had dishonored mine.
But the sting of the latter was hardly felt; for his eyes fell upon an object which set his knees trembling and his heart going like a hammer.
His tone was without satire, but its sting was sharper than satire; that of an Indian shrug over a negligible quantity.
He bubbled in shivery delight with the first frigid sting of the downpour; he laughed in ecstasy as he pulled the valve wide open, inviting a Niagara.
Put a snake in your bosom, and when it is warm it will sting you.
There was something wanting, and thus his shots had not the sting that they ought to have, or that he thought they should possess.
Let it pitch against an incline ever so slight, or against a knob in the ground no bigger than a pigeon's egg, and the sting of the shot is plucked.
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot; Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remembered not.
She was conscious of the sting in those final words, the half-expressed threat, but the smile did not desert her lips.
The words were like a blow in his face, and under their sting he staggered to his feet; scarlet blazed in both his cheeks.
Brandon felt the sting all the more keenly from what had that day occurred.
It is but a just punishment for what they did to me, and to tell you the truth, it has, to some extent, taken the sting out of my vengeance, for I had come back determined upon a terrible satisfaction.
Dick saw besides the Confederate column many irregulars in the woods, skilled sharpshooters, who began to sting them on the flank and bring down many a good soldier.
If a yellow jacket should sting me, I'd say what a little thing it is, compared with the piece of shrapnel that hit me at some battle not yet fought.
For an instant the brown lines shiver and hang hesitant under the sting of the death-hail--but after that moment they leap forward and sweep upward.
This was the pleasantry to which his feeble resistance, his outbursts of anger, of jealousy, or of protest had but added piquancy, the ultimate sting of pleasure to the jaded palate of the performers.
Instinct told him that his enemy was not to be trusted, but he had the wit to discern that Blondel had forestalled him, and had drawn the sting from his charges.
Who, running fluid hither and thither, where resistance might be least of use, was as it were the ultimate sting of enjoyment.
Her conscience was tender, and Nathalie's words fell on it like the sting of a lash.
The words rushed swiftly with a force which told how long they had been held back, yet were quite free from any sting of bitterness.
They were unresting in their exertions--took the whole affair under their personal supervision, and invented a hundred fables to sting and arouse me.
The truth is as a snake to sting That breathes ill news: but where its fang hath stung The very pang bids health and healing spring.
Will the bees sting when you disturb them about the hive?
This is thought to be a sting but it is only an ornament and is entirely harmless.
The gadfly does not immediately sting you; it begins by buzzing in your ears, and you do not at first know what it is.
Caroline is very willing to sting Adolphe at all hours, but this privilege of letting a wasp off now and then upon one's consort (the legal term), is exclusively reserved to the wife.
I may receive the only real sting your lips have given, because I could not bear that pain without crying.
I deserved any mark of your displeasure; I only wish I could persuade you that the sharpest sting lies in the lips we love.
Your lips would punish a fault with words that shame and sting for a day, a summer, a year; your hand must never inflict a sting that may smart for ten minutes.
The lip-sting (scolding) and silence frightened me so, you nearly heard me crying.
And she, knowing how the taunt would sting him, with equal bitterness did not reply.
When he spoke of how happy they would be, she felt the sting of his rough grip on her arm.
