 ... the bees of the bankrupt hive who had been absent at the time of the catastrophe, and who arrived, from time to time, with full cargoes from abroad. At first they wheeled about...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1831841Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - Travel - 1835 - 220 pages
...place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down,...over the downfall of their republic. It was a scene on which the " melancholy Jacques" might have moralised by the hour. We now abandoned the" place, leaving... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down,...over the downfall of their republic. It was a scene on which the " melancholy Jacques" might have moralized by the hour. We now abandoned the place, leaving... | |
 | Washington Irving - Travel - 1835 - 220 pages
...place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down,...buzz forth doleful lamentations over the downfall of a. their republic. It was a scene on which the " melancholy Jacques " might have moralised by the hour.... | |
 | Washington Irving - Indians of North America - 1835 - 360 pages
...place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down,...ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations over the downfal of their republic. It was a scene on which the " melancholy Jacques " might have moralised... | |
 | William Charles Cotton - Bee culture - 1842 - 434 pages
...place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down,...ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations over the downfal of their republic. It was a scene on which the " melancholy Jacques" might have moralised by... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down...ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations over the downfal of their republic. — Irving. THE PERAMBULATOR. MARGATE AND RAMSGATE. A PERAMBULATOR will... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down in clusters on n dry branch of a neighboring tree, from whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate...over the downfall of their republic. It was a scene on which the " melancholy Ja•quea" might have moralized by the hour. We now abandoned the place,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down in clusters on a dry branch of a neighboring tree, from whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz forth doleful... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down in clusters on a dry branch'of a neighboring tree, from whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 396 pages
...ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations over the downfall of their republic. It was a scene on which the " melancholy Jacques " might have moralized...leaving much honey in the hollow of the tree. " It will all be cleared off by varmint," said one of the rangers. " What vermin ?" asked I. ' ; Oh, bears, and... | |
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