 ... 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
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 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...lamentations over the downfall of their republic. WASHINGTON IKVING. Harbinger. — A forerunner that gives notice of some expected arrival. Herald.... | |
 | James F. Robinson - Bee culture - 1880 - 268 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...scene in which the " melancholy Jacques" might have moralised by the hour. We now abandoned the place, leaving much honey in the hollow of the tree. "... | |
 | Washington Irving - Abbotsford (B.C.) - 1882 - 392 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, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 910 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, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1884 - 248 pages
...place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it gone. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down...in clusters on a dry branch of a neighbouring tree, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations over the... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 296 pages
...time to time with full cargoes from abroad, astonished at finding the place a vacuum. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down...in clusters on a dry branch of a neighbouring tree, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations over the... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - Elocution - 1884 - 442 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, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate^ ruin, and to buzz forth doleful... | |
 | 1894 - 264 pages
...place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it gone. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down in clusters on a dry branch of a neighbouring 166 tree, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English language - 1898 - 412 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... | |
 | Joseph Henry Wade, Emma Sylvester - Readers - 1908 - 360 pages
...wheeled about in the air, in the place where the fallen tree had once reared its head. At length, as if comprehending their disaster, they settled down in clusters on a dry branch of a neighboring tree, whence they seemed to contemplate the prostrate ruin, and to buzz forth doleful lamentations... | |
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