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Sentences starting with bees

Bees hummed in the air as they searched hither and thither amongst the flowers, or shot straight as a bullet for a distant hive. [9]

Sentences ending with bees

A soft south wind was blowing, and all the air was drowsy with the hum of bees. [4]
In place of the former close dark circles formed by thousands of bees sitting back to back and guarding the high mystery of generation, he sees hundreds of dull, listless, and sleepy shells of bees. [2]
And presently the sound lulled, and softened and softened, until it was as the murmur of a distant swarm of bees. [6]
The drowsing murmur of the five and twenty studying scholars soothed the soul like the spell that is in the murmur of bees. [5]
Here is an odd (but entirely proper) use of a word, and a most sudden descent from a lofty philosophical altitude to a very practical and homely illustration: We should endeavor to avoid extremes--like those of wasps and bees. [5]
The people were in the presence of a monster which could sweep them from their homes as a hail-storm scatters the hanging nests of wild bees. [11]
It was the humming of bees! [4]
The negotiation began at once, and was not disturbed by the crowd, though still from the market-place there came a ceaseless roar, like the breaking of distant waves and the buzzing of thousands of swarming bees. [10]
They are strung across the deserts now, working like bees. [5]

Sentences containing bees two or more times

The bees circle round a queenless hive in the hot beams of the midday sun as gaily as around the living hives; from a distance it smells of honey like the others, and bees fly in and out in the same way. [2]
Instead of a neatly glued floor, swept by the bees with the fanning of their wings, there is a floor littered with bits of wax, excrement, dying bees scarcely moving their legs, and dead ones that have not been cleared away. [2]
And he said if a man owned a beehive and that man died, the bees must be told about it before sun-up next morning, or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die. [5]

More example sentences with the word bees in them

Jim said bees wouldn't sting idiots; but I didn't believe that, because I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn't sting me. [5]
The door and windows of the little house were open that balmy afternoon, and the bees were buzzing among the flowers which Cynthia had planted on either side of the step. [9]
A thousand blossoms, white, red, blue and yellow, swayed on their slender stalks, opened their calixes to the bees, unfolded their stars to deck the woodland carpet, or proudly stretched themselves up as straight as candles. [10]
Four weeks ago, while making some necessary excavations upon the property, Signor Smitthe unearthed the most remarkable ancient statue that has ever bees added to the opulent art treasures of Rome. [5]
In another corner two old bees are languidly fighting, or cleaning themselves, or feeding one another, without themselves knowing whether they do it with friendly or hostile intent. [2]
I don't object to wading through a swarm of bees to get a little honey for a friend, but I think I'm entitled to know why he wants it. [9]
The gallery was thronged with spectators, clustering like bees about the large windows, and the notes of the band came floating out over the lawn, bringing to the groups there the lulling impression that life is all a summer holiday. [4]
The voices of the people dropped to a hum that brought to mind the long forgotten sound of the bees swarming in the garden by the Chesapeake. [9]
She listened, but the only answer was the humming of the bees in the still September morning. [9]
People were thicker than bees, in those narrow streets, and the men were dressed in all the outrageous, outlandish, idolatrous, extravagant, thunder-and-lightning costumes that ever a tailor with the delirium tremens and seven devils could conceive of. [5]
Then, like a stream of white bees pouring from a huge swarm, the steers stretched out from the main body. [13]
There was no sound save the languid morning notes of the birds and the humming of the bees among the flowers as Antoinette went tremblingly down the path and paused, listening, under the branches of that oak where I had first beheld her. [9]
I would as soon have touched him as a ball of angry bees or a pair of fighting wildcats. [9]
Then I saw some running; and next, as I stood there wondering, came another crack, and then a volley like the noise of a great fire licking into dry wood, and things that were not bees humming round about. [9]
The old mother showed Rodney's wife what there was for eyes to see, not forgetting the three hives of bees on the south side, beneath the parlour window. [11]
As early as seven o'clock the later cohorts began to arrive, and were soon as thick as bees in the Pelican, circulating in the lobby, conferring in various rooms of which they had the numbers with occupants in bed and out. [9]
Instead of serried rows of bees sealing up every gap in the combs and keeping the brood warm, he sees the skillful complex structures of the combs, but no longer in their former state of purity. [2]
In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses. [2]
Presently, as he over-hastily opened a hive, some bees stung his hand badly; I ran to him and drew the stings out. [10]
They published four of the series, namely: 'The Golden Pipes, The Guardian of the Fire, By that Place Called Peradventure, The Singing of the Bees, and The Tent of the Purple Mat'. [11]
Through the singing of the bees as they passed over my bed, I heard my father's voice. [11]
The low song of the bees around the shrubbery vied with Mr. Holt's slow reading. [9]
In the family of bees, Hermann Muller (87. [1]
The bees do not fly in the same way, the smell and the sound that meet the beekeeper are not the same. [2]
They have no more idea of the bad way the world is in than bees in their cells. [4]
The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by. [12]
Formerly only bees laden with honey flew into the hive, and they flew out empty; now they fly out laden. [2]
De big bees is a singin', My heart is held up and de bells is a ringin'; Hold up yo hands, Hold up yo hands! [11]
Aye, she hath indeed cast her devil's tangle of gold about me to ensnare all that is vain and base in me; but she has no more room in my heart than those bees have. [10]
Rich tiger-lilies thrust in at the sill, and lazy flies and king bees boomed in and out of the window. [11]
When Elsa and I had flowers enough, we sat down with the others, and it was pleasant there to rest in the shade of the lime-tree, whose leaves fluttered in a soft air, while bees and butterflies hovered above the flowers in the warm sunshine. [10]
The bees were humming idly over the sweet-scented gardens, and Farris, the clock-maker, sat at his door, and nodded. [9]
If you hate honey or cheese, or the products of the dairy,--I know a family a good many of whose members can't touch milk, butter, cheese, and the like, why, say so, but don't find fault with the bees and the cows. [6]
We take little help from studying the bees --originally no one could have been born a queen. [4]
Perhaps he could have managed the dates, for he was quick at figures, but the facts were like bees in their hive,--he could scarcely tell one from another by looking at them. [11]
When a queen has grown old and slack and does not lay eggs enough one of her royal daughters is allowed to come to attack her, the rest of the bees looking on at the duel and seeing fair play. [5]
No other bees get such fine food as they get, or live such a high and luxurious life. [5]
This will be enough to last the year, but not more than enough, because hundreds of bees are drowned every day, and other hundreds are eaten by birds, and it is the queen's business to keep the population up to standard--say, fifty thousand. [5]
There was a drowsy hum of bees, and in the distance the occasional languishing note of a bird singing what must have been a cradle-song. [9]
She heard the dizzy din of the bees, the sleepy grinding of the grass hoppers, the sough of the solitary pine at the door, and then behind them all a whizzing, machine- like sound. [11]
The gallants had come about her like bees, for there was Jean Jacques' many businesses and his reputation for wealth; and there was her own charm, concerning which there could be far less doubt than about Jean Jacques' magnificent solvency. [11]
The trees had burst forth again into leaf, the spiraea bushes seemed weighted down with snow, and with a note like that of the quivering bass string of a 'cello the bees hummed among the fruit blossoms. [9]
And did the bees still give the same bonnie hiney, and were the red apples still in the far orchard? [9]
Two communities of ants or bees are exactly alike in all their actions, so far as we can see. [6]
The young knights and nobles will gather round her like bees about honey. [10]
The balmy summer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knitting --for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap. [5]
Light, sure-footed as a mountain goat, Bess pattered down at Venters's heels; and they went on, calling the dogs, eyes dreamy and wide, listening to the wind and the bees and the crickets and the birds. [13]
That bees have a keen perception of colour is certain. [1]
Here and there a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee or bumblebee without knowing why they do it. [2]

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