Some bee-keepers, in order to collect the honey harvest, suffocate their bees by burning sulphur matches.
Maurice Girard,[128] "that the sap flows only with difficulty into the withered organ, and cannot suffocate the young larvae.
Those authors who recommend us to suffocatethe bees," says M.
If you introduce the new queen half a day only after the removal of the old queen, she is very badly received, and is at once surrounded, the workers trying to suffocate her.
But this state of things must not last too long, or you may suffocate your bees.
If found in such a position it is an easy matter to suffocate them, thus obliterating all possible chances of the animals distributing their obnoxious perfume.
After all, it is poor policy tosuffocate whole dens of skunk.
But the directing line of work of the treaties has been to break down Germany, to cut her up, to suffocate her.
Every military expedition against Russia signified giving the people the conviction that it was desired not to fight an enemy but to suffocate in blood an attempt at a communist organization.
It is time to dismiss all those songs and toasts which are calculated to enslave, and operate to suffocate reflection.
Measures which at other times it would censure it now approves, and acts persuasion upon itself tosuffocate its judgment.
But why do ye complain of waters going over your soul, and that the smoke of the terrors of a wrathful Lord do almost suffocate you, and bring you to death's brink?
In such a hovel a soldier could pretty nearly suffocate himself in ten minutes, the stones being heated in a wood fire outside.
And in the bath-room they had made a great fire, so as to suffocate the beautiful young Queen.
If I betrayed by the smallest noise that the attempt tosuffocate me had failed, I was certain to be murdered.
The sight of a green cloth, with packs of cards and heaps of money on it, will henceforth be forever associated in my mind with the sight of a bed canopy descending to suffocate me in the silence and darkness of the night.
At that time Nero was in training to suffocate a lion in the arena.
The two princes wanted to set fire to the tree and suffocate the bees, so as to remove the honey.
Yet we should not suffocate him instantly; we should disable the lungs; but, in this class of animals the whole skin is a breathing surface.
That is not possible unless the mouth is shut; and, therefore, as we might suffocate a man by keeping his mouth shut, so we should suffocate a frog by keeping his mouth open.
He who loves, therefore, will bestow all his care on these wellsprings of life; how frail are the lungs of a new-born infant, how easily can an unnatural mother deprive him of air and so suffocate him!
And thus a method which gives internal equilibrium and disperses the grossest errors which suffocate the spiritual energies, makes ready for the reception of truth and the recognition of the "way of life.
The air seemed to suffocate them, cold sweat broke out on their foreheads, and their hands were numb and powerless.
Care should be taken that the fumes of the burning sulphur are sufficiently diluted with air so as not to suffocate the horse.
The head is extended, the body profusely perspiring; pulse very rapid; soon great exhaustion becomes manifest; the mucous membranes become turgid and very dark colored, and the animal thus may suffocate in a short time.
He could do so in all confidence, for its spasmodic throbbing threatened to suffocate him.
The sight of a green cloth, with packs of cards and heaps of money on it, will henceforth be forever associated in my mind with the sight of a bed-canopy descending to suffocate me, in the silence and darkness of the night.
If I betrayed by the smallest noise, that the attempt to suffocate me had failed, I was certain to be murdered.
Those are the worst of suicides, who voluntarily and propensely stab or suffocate their fame, when God hath commanded them to stand on high for an example.
Philosophies and religions will strive, struggle, and suffocateone another.
Because once a woman has climbed up with her children, she'll find plenty of grovellers ready to support her and suffocate any defiant spirit.
I resolved to take a dog and hold him myself; suffocate him a little, and time him; suffocate him some more and then finish him.
These increase tremendously from self-sowing, so be careful or they will suffocate all that grows near them.
In their luxuriance they may suffocatethe Roses and Clematis.
If I should be pulled up I might be jerked away from my air-supply and suffocate before I got to the surface.
And why did I feel as if I should suffocate at that which I had hitherto borne with such apparent equanimity?
