 ... community; as if the bees would carry through the similitude of their habits with those of laborious and gainful man, I beheld numbers from rival hives, arriving on eager wing, to enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbors.  The Saturday Magazine - Página 1831841Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 220 páginas
...wing, to enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbours. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerily as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has...poor proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no he^t to do any thing, not even to taste the nectar that flowed around them, but crawled backwards and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 360 páginas
...wing, to enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbours. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerily as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has...poor proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have A BEE HUNT. 67 no heart to do any thing, not even to taste the nectar that flowed around them, but... | |
 | 1835 - 466 páginas
...neighbours. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerily as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that had been driven on shore, — plunging into the cells...proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart to do any thing, not even to taste the nectar that Bowed around them, but crawled backward and forward in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 220 páginas
...wing, to enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbours. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerily as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has...banqueting greedily on the spoil, and then winging the$jfttvay full freighted to their homes, As to the poor proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have... | |
 | 1835 - 618 páginas
...appetite of a school-boy. Nay, the bees from rival hives hastily congregated and busied themselves as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven on shore ; the poor proprietors alone had not heart to do any thing. The capture of the wild-horse is a very... | |
 | William Charles Cotton - 1842 - 434 páginas
...wings, to enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbours. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerily as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has...proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart to do any thing, not even to taste the nectar that flowed around them, but crawled backwards and forwards,... | |
 | 1843 - 488 páginas
...wing, to enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbours. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerily as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has...greedily on the spoil, and then winging their way full-freighted to their homes. As to the poor proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 páginas
...their neighbors. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indinman that has been driven on shore ; plunging into the...the broken honeycombs, banqueting greedily on the spoils, and then winging their way full freighted to tht-ir homes. An to the poor propiii'tors of the... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 páginas
...enrich themselves with the ruins of their neighbors. These busied themselves as eagerly and cheerfully as so many wreckers on an Indiaman that has been driven...proprietors of the ruin, they seemed to have no heart to do any thing, not even to taste the nectar that flowed around them, but crawled backwards and forwards,... | |
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