When a bee stings us, it is often unable to draw the sting out again, because of these barbs.
If it finds a wasps' or a bumblebees' nest, it will dig it up and devour all the grubs and the food which has been stored up for them, caring nothing for the stings of the angry insects.
But its coat is so thick that the insects can scarcely force their stings through it, while even if they do so there is a thick loose skin under it, and a layer of fat under that.
It will even eat scorpions, but is careful to pull off their stings before doing so.
It will rob the nests of wild bees, too, and feed greedily upon the honey, appearing to pay no attention to the stings of the angry insects.
They were stung about the face, and found the stings to be exceedingly virulent and painful.
The stings of the bees had nettled the Hindoo's temper, and the laughter of the boys exasperated him still more.
They experienced the bite of ants or the stings of mosquitoes every moment, or they were attacked by large ticks, a species of which infests the bamboo, and which is one of the most hateful of insects.
They would have laughed at the whole adventure, but the pain of the stings put them out of all humour for enjoying a joke; and, out of sorts altogether, they quietly wended their way back to the place of their temporary encampment.
If Miss von Hinkefuss had met me, if half a bushel of bee-stings had been planted in her body, I should have asked her every morning with the utmost propriety how she was.
Come away, doctor, and pull thestings out of my body.
I asked, 'can't you pull bee-stings out of a man's skin?
He would not accept one, but offered to the Lord the stingsof the gnats, which is no small mortification and penance.
The Snake departed, saying thatstings and stars cannot keep company.
It is the duty of those who claim to rule over others not to provoke them beyond the necessity of the case, nor to leave stings in their minds which must long rankle even when the appearance of tranquillity is restored.
It is not the question of the places and seats, it is the real hostile disposition and the pretended fears, that leave stings in the minds of the people.
But a sharp criticism with a drop of witty venom in it stings a young author almost to death, and makes an old one uncomfortable to no purpose.
The chance thought or expression struck the nervous centre of consciousness, as the rowel of a spur stings the flank of a racer.
All she could do was break them, and go on, with the points rankling like wasp-stings in her tender muzzle.
Does he know what I have felt and how I have suffered, that he stings me with such words?
But though it could shield him from his foes, it could not preserve him from remorse and the stings of conscience, of which he speedily died.
The plant which stings has a round hairy stalk, and carries only a dull colourless bloom, whereas the others are labiate herbs with square stems, and conspicuous lipped flowers.
The cure for Nettle stings has been from early times to rub the part with a dock leaf.
Flames divine do scathe the clod; "Round his reeling Helot brow "Stings the garland of the God.
Stings the chain-embruted clay, Senseless to his yoke-bound shame; Goads him on to rend and slay, Knowing not the spurring flame.
And the season, which was the most heavenly period of the spring, added stings to this yearning.
And in her last fight upon the scaffold she had triumphed gloriously; victoriously she had tasted the stings of death.
The stings and remores of natural ingenuity, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them.
Wood nettle, a plant (Laportea Canadensis) which stings severely, and is related to the true nettles.
Defn: Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidæ, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
I knew not whence, Who quickly made me by fresh stings to feel Ill who resists his fate, or would conceal.
No martyr e’er defied the flames, By stingsof life unvext; First rose some quarrel with this world, Then passion for the next.
If thou canst not do it, still forsake not at court the beloved soul; be her only, her most ardent friend; draw the bee-stings of earthly hours from her gentle heart.
My intractable captive tosses about angrily and stings at random, never where I wish.
No, it balks my forceps and goes and stings elsewhere: not very far away, I admit; but it takes so little to miss the nerve-centre which we wish to get at.
I have discussed elsewhere the stingsadministered by the Wasps to their prey.
As soon as they come into the dark world of the hive, they begin to eat their way through the combs, spinning the while a tunnel of silk, which entirely protects them from the stings of the bees.
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