 It is difficult to describe the bewilderment and confusion of 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 in the air, in...  A Tour on the Prairies - Page 41by Washington Irving - 1835 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1835 - 878 pages
...forwards, in vacant desolation, as I have seen a poor fellow, with his hands in his breeches-pocket, whistling vacantly and despondingly about the ruins...had been absent at the time of the catastrophe, and Letters, by W. Ifayley, £*?., now first completed by the introduction of Coieper's Private Correspondence.... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...backwards and forwards, in vacant desolation, as I have seen a poor fellow, with his hands in his pockets, whistling vacantly and despondingly about the ruins of his house that had been burned. It is difficult to describe the bewilderment and confusion of the bees of the bankrupt hive... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...in vacant desolation, as I have seen a poor fellow with his hands in his breeches pocket, whisilintr vacantly and despondingly about the ruins of his house...bees of the bankrupt hive who had been absent at the dine of the catastrophe, and who arrived from time to time, with full cargoes from abroad. At first... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...into the cells of the broken honey-combs, banqueting greedily on the spoil, and then winging their way full freighted to their homes. As to the poor proprietors...full cargoes from abroad. At first they wheeled about in the air, in the place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1849 - 276 pages
...backwards and forwards, in vacant desolation, as I have seen a poor fellow with his hands in his pockets, whistling vacantly and despondingly about the ruins...full cargoes from abroad. At first they wheeled about in the air, in the place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, American - 1849 - 394 pages
...seen a poor fellow with his hands in his pockets, whistling vacantly and despondingly about the ruina of his house that had been burnt. It is difficult...full cargoes from abroad. At first they wheeled about in the air, in the place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all... | |
 | 1835 - 592 pages
...his breeches pocket, whistling vacantly and despondingly about the ruins of his house that had In sn burnt. " It is difficult to describe the bewilderment...and confusion of the bees of the bankrupt hive who bad been absent at the time of the catastrophe, and who arrived from time to time, with full cargoes... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pages
...backwards and forwards, in vacant desolation, as I have seen a poor fellow, with his hands in his pockets, whistling vacantly and despondingly about the ruins of his house, that had been burned. It is difficult to describe the bewilderment and confusion of the bees of the bankrupt hive,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 398 pages
...backwards and forwards, in vacant desolation, as I have seen a poor fellow with his hands in his pockets, whistling vacantly and despondingly about the ruins...full cargoes from abroad. At first they wheeled about in the air, in the place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all... | |
 | Thomas James - 1852 - 114 pages
...backwards and forwards, in vacant desolation, as I have seen a poor fellow, with his hands in his pockets, whistling vacantly and despondingly about the ruins of his house that had been burned. It is difficult to describe the bewilderment and confusion of the bees of the bankrupt hive... | |
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