This merry jest you must excuse; You are but a stingless nettle; You 'd never have stood for boots or shoes Had you been a man of mettle.
My laughing fit you must excuse; You are but a stingless nettle; You'd neer a stood for boots or shooes, Had you been a man of mettle.
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Now we understand also why the stingless honey bees of South America collect little honey.
It is well known that never more than a very small store of honey is found in felled trees inhabited by stingless Melipona.
The little stingless bees, of many kinds, swarmed in such multitudes, and were so persevering, that we had to wear our head-nets when we wrote or skinned specimens.
The honey was in a hollow, and had been made by medium-sized stingless bees.
The small stingless bees have no fear and can hardly be frightened away when they light on the hands or face; but they never bite, and merely cause a slight tickling as they crawl over the skin.
Small stingless bees lit on us in numbers and crawled over the skin, making a slight tickling; but we did not mind them until they became very numerous.
And is God to be conceived of as a careless, indolent fellow, such as the poet would compare to a stingless drone?
Wherefore, Bees of England, forge Many a weapon, chain, and scourge, 10 That these stingless drones may spoil The forced produce of your toil?
Cassia leaves are stinglessbut prickly is the nettle).
He smiled a pleasant and cordial smile, as though in stingless raillery at something known to himself alone, and patted the deacon's portly shoulder.
And perhaps I might not take even that," he said enigmatically, smiling pleasantly, with the same stingless raillery that was a riddle to all but himself.
They are minute, stingless bees, which store up honey and live in colonies often of immense extent.
Wherefore, bees of England, forge Many a weapon, chain, and scourge, That these stingless drones may spoil The forced produce of your toil?
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