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Twelve miles south there is a glen with a plateau at its head, and that plateau is as full of Indians as a beehive.
Who'd ever dream of making a beehive out of a megaphone?
The buildings formed an inner quadrangle and two sides of an outer one, all a beehive of industry.
There were the beehives, and the bees humming among the orchard boughs.
A bear wishing to rob a beehive, laid himself down in front of it, and overturned it with his paw.
He pointed to two hairy plush beehive bonnets, one magenta, the other a conscientious electric blue.
A few huts, shaped like beehives, stood by the roadside, close by some deep peat cuttings.
From the upper side it is easily approached, but to get at the mouth of the cave you have to step down, as it were, from the roof of the beehive on to a ledge of rock about six feet wide, below which there is a drop of ten or twelve feet.
She asked her mother one night, if she didn't think they might begin their beehive with a fire-fly?
They soon found out, however, that the princess was missing, and in a moment the palace was like a beehive in a garden; and in one minute more the queen was brought to herself by a great shout and a clapping of hands.
They were generally industrious; every convent was a beehive, in which various kinds of manufactures were produced.
The wasps' nest had suddenly turned into a beehive.
A steady hum and drone as of some gigantic beehive ascended from the mills, and their combined steam and water power produced a tremor of earth and a steady roar in the air; while a faint dust storm often flickered about the entrance ways.
Shrewd wasps were these, bent upon getting up beehives of cooperative activity.
He'll be all right when he wakes up, except for a sort of beehive about the cranium.
An observation beehive is simply a glass box or hive instead of a wooden one.
A nice, cozy beehive it made, filled to the throat with waxen cells.
The legislature had convened some six weeks before, and the building was humming like a vast beehive.
A little farther off, across the garden, were grandpa's beehives, where the bees were making honey.
He spun a beehive of pink, then layered it with stripes of blue and green.
The ship was a beehive of activity, not merely the activity of warlike discipline or preparation, but social activity.
It was easy enough to count the bees but not the beehives because I had too many hives.
With sudden and infernal malice he inverted the beehive and clapped it, bees and all, on the officer's head.
The homes of that day were beehives of industry, in which a dozen handicrafts were taught and practiced.
At daybreak all tents were a beehive of activity.
England is said to be "a beehive of mercantile and manufacturing industry."
Great Britain, therefore, has become practically one great beehive of mercantile and manufacturing industry.
John Hunter said of himself, "My mind is like a beehive; but full as it is of buzz and apparent confusion, it is yet full of order and regularity, and food collected with incessant industry from the choicest stores of nature."
It resembled a large beehive, was overshadowed by dense foliage of a tropical kind, and carpeted with a species of fern.
There is even a white row of beehives in the orchard, under the walnut trees.
Their dwellings were circular, very thickly thatched, something like a beehive, and very close and warm.
Its unearthly din took on the indignant quality of an irritated beehive.
We peeped in at the window, and there was nothing in the room but an old beehive and a broken leather strap.
Petersburg, cabbages and turnips are its only vegetables, and a beehive there is a curiosity.
A newspaper headed by a grand picture of starred and striped banners, beehive, and eagle surmounting it.
Plant hop gardens, prune trees, look to beehives, rear sheep, and all other cattle at once?
It was like the encampment of a great army, or a collection of huge beehives.
Italy, especially the northern provinces, was a great beehive, humming with patriotic fervor.
Then I went into a milliner's store, carrying it in my hand, and made a woman curl a long white feather over the crown, which gave the whole affair a touch of the beehive, stamping it with beautiful femininity.
I put a blue veil around my beehive, and wilted down into my corner of the settee.
Bob waved comprehensively toward the beehive of industry that surrounded them.
The top part of it was a home-made observatory, and the whole building looked a good deal like a large beehive.
Three old hags were seated against one of the beehive shaped huts, otherwise the place seemed quite deserted.
Another night we confiscated a beehive and secured some delicious honey.
Apparently this species is not in the habit of leading men to beehives.
The village looks like a huge beehive made of clay and stuck fast to the top of a sandy knoll.
The huts, looking like huge beehives, were sheltered behind bristling palisades.
On a fir tree stood a stork on its nest, and in a cherry garden were dark beehives.
It has a roughly oval beehive shape with a trapezoidal framed opening in which a pottery door fits snugly.
Gruff (unknown) male voice: "Madam, this is not a beehive, it's a bathroom!"
A beehive of human beings, crowded together in a narrow space, exhausts the life-giving principle of the surrounding atmosphere, but this is impossible where plenty of room is given for the circulation of fresh air.
The swarms in the beehives began to buzz and bustle; cattle were bellowing in the fields.
As for house entrances, the beehive had one doorway, the arbor abode usually one at each end.
All this part of the country is covered with beehive-shaped cairns, built of well-selected stones.
The pace was slow, out of consideration for the wounded arm, and it was not until well on into the night that they rode into the beehive-like collection of round native huts, and called up the two Border policemen stationed there.
It makes a squeaking noise and is often found in beehives where it is attracted by the honey.
The place is a beehive of soldiery, and never again will be any other, I most fervently hope and trust.
Beehives and libraries were surely incongruous.
The returns from that swarm of bees convinced him that there were possibilities in the bee business, and very soon he gave up the jewelry business to engage in the bee business and manufacture of beehives.
Before long the guests thawed a little, and the place began to hum like a beehive.
The place was like a great beehive, where all were industrious, happy, contented, working for the hive.
From a small, beehive-like mount it sends up a slender column of water vertically and symmetrically two hundred feet.
Still another filter is made by building what is called a beehive in the bottom of the cistern.
When the beehives were New York, the geraniums were Japan, so the distance is easy to calculate.
From the back fence to the front gate, from the beehives to the red geraniums, the whole land ran with blood.
The rock is honeycombed like a beehive, with grottoes formerly used by the Anchorites.
Thousands of their beehive-like kraals were thickly scattered over every hillside they were passing.
This time, with all the extra pueblo units close to each other, the area must have resembled a veritable beehive.
Then a gong pealed out, and the building became a very beehive of sound.
One of the Sacs found a beehive in a hollow tree, and carried it to his wigwam.
He had tried to follow the other so far as he was able, but he had long gotten beyond the power of comprehension; the words fell upon his ears one after the other like blows, until his head hummed like a beehive.
And gradually the modern coke by-product oven is replacing the old beehive.
Yes, your Imperial Highness, I had imagined the Staff Headquarters of an army to resemble a buzzing beehive, but now that I have the reality before me, I find no trace of anxiety or nervousness, nothing but calm and assurance everywhere.
Of course the farmer found his overturned beehives, the next morning, and angry enough he was, I can tell you.
The one where the dog yelped has, like most others, an underground beehive chamber in the midst.
A tall, blooming lilac stood by the beehives.
I therefore plowed under the alfalfa and destroyed what few beehives I had.
It rumbled through the streets among the pastel beehives.
Shrubs and trees were neatly set out, and a big golden beehive stood at the end of a long drive.
This village had the most primitive maize barns I had ever seen: they were round, like giant beehives, with straw-thatched roofs; and as the sun was blazing full on the gray village and its yellow straw, I stopped to take a photograph.
Marge pottered about in the sunlight with his beehives.
A beehive is a true image of a commonwealth, where no member acts for himself alone, but for the whole body.
These kraals consist of half a dozen or more large huts, exactly like so many huge beehives, on the slope of a hill.
Leave the bees alone, I say, and if you can get a little honey out of them quietly, so much the better; but he goes about among the beehives with a pole, stirring up trouble for himself and others too.
This is evidenced by the pottery found in the hovels and before the doorways of two of the beehive tombs.
They discussed the interesting possibility of creating a neuter gender such as the workers in a beehive or ant hill.
They lived in beehive huts, built with wood and wattle, having roofs of fern and thatch.
The Mouse-Deer saw them coming, and climbed up a tree, from the boughs of which a large beehive was hanging.
A native kraal consists of a cluster of huts which exactly resemble huge beehives.
They were beehive roofed, the entrances going straight through the back wall from the enclosed area.
Presently the youth dismounted, and his companion became aware of a low cabin rising like a beehive before him.
The busy place roused as a humming beehive is roused by a sounded gong.
And on sunny days I used to watch the airplanes come sailing up out of the blue, the sun catching their wings, and tumble, for sheer joy it seemed, in the air, while the hum of their engines filled the whole sky as with a gigantic beehive.
In the old colonial days there was extraordinary hospitality in America, and this still survives in the West and North and South in places out of touch with the great industrial beehive of the East and Center.
In the older examples the entrance is surmounted by a gable, which frequently takes the curves of the beehive.
From where we sat eating on the hillside we received no more notice than the tunes of shells in their passage, the hum of strayed bullets, and the sounds of an angry beehive when a machine gun sent part of a charge through space.
It was a most animated scene, there is no doubt about that; it was a stupendous beehive.
It had been humming like a beehive until then, but except for a general salutation it became silent when he entered.
The trail took them to the summit of a bald hump of ages-old lava rock shaped like the top of a huge beehive.
Most of them mention earthenware beehives only to condemn them.