While he stood, the boom of the serpent within the adjacent house, and the lesser strains of the fiddler, reached the spot as an accompaniment to the surging hiss of the flying rain on the sod, its louder beating on the cabbage-leaves of the garden, on the eight or ten beehives just discernible by the path, and its dripping from the eaves into a row of buckets and pans that had been placed under the walls of the cottage.

Likewise in these great beehives where in every corridor swarm men of flesh and blood, it is the privilege of the government, whether of the State or of the United States, as the case may be, to see that human life is properly cared for, and that human lungs have something to breathe.

Other villages and farms, while just as well-kept and well-to-do, have, so to say, a something romantic about their prosperity, a bounteous, ruddy, golden-age look about them, as though Nature herself had been the farmer and they had ruddied and ripened out of her own unconscious abundancethe difference between a row of modern box beehives and the old thatched-cottage kind.

Ah, yes! it was possible for him, thirty years ago, to make the trip to Rochester and back by the canal, and bring home a good ten dollars; but nowwell, every one in the valley was poor, except the man whose beehives we had seen on the hillside half-a-mile back.

Vathek fancied that even invisible matter showed a forwardness to subserve his designs, and his pride arrived at its height when, having ascended for the first time the eleven thousand stairs of his tower, he cast his eyes below and beheld men not larger than pismires, mountains than shells, and cities than beehives.

It is enough to visit one of those compulsory human beehives and to see how a military discipline carries a brutal hypocrisy into it.

Good deeds he loves none, but sealed and delivered; nor doth he wish anything to thrive in the country but beehives, for they make him wax rich.

Where can he lie concealed?Gentle sir, my lord, most noble stranger, where might we hope to hide the rainbow, supposing it in danger? PATOU There by the bench with the beehives stands my green cottage, very much at your service.

As they drew near the farm-house a strange sound fell on their ears; it was as if a million of beehives were in full blast of buzzing in the air.

And Mr. Upton roused himself from a reverie into which he had fallen as he sat at his study window and watched his favourite beehives.

The tobacco grown here has the most exquisite aroma, and the beehives look from a distance like a small town with many-shaped roofs.

Their houses are in the form of beehives, and the door-posts are of carved planks.

The rebel is what distinguishes our States and cities from the beehives and ant-heaps to which they are commonly compared.

He was a pale, simple-looking man, and sat among his flowers and beehives, taking no notice of the travellers, until Nell approached him, dropping a curtsey, and asking if he could direct them anywhere to obtain a shelter for the night.

You're free!' Destructiveness of Soldiers "The soldiers would tear down the beehives and break up the smoke houses.

The aroma from its flowers is like that of mignonette; it perfumes the whole atmosphere, and is perceptible to the inhabitants of all the beehives within a circuit of a mile.

A collection of pyramids, twisters, beehives, pyramid twisters, and maltese cross puzzles.

A collection of pyramids, twisters, beehives, pyramid twisters, and maltese cross puzzles.

Next beehives appeared and were elevated on stands and duly protected from the rain.

How men like these on tramp must have envied the comfortable cottages, the well-stocked gardens, the pigsties, the beehives, and the roses of the labourers!

" After viewing the orchard and the beehives beneath the trees, I remarked on the size of the plant, and its suitability for his purpose.

If we compare two trees, or two beehives, or two rivers, our comparison is not a simile.

Then the father of the family reverently lights the candle and prays God to bless the family with health and happiness, the fields with a good harvest, the beehives with plenty of honey, the cattle and sheep with young, and the cows with abundant milk and rich cream.

Then he walks straight to the hearth, takes a shovel and strikes the burning log so that a cloud of sparks flies up the chimney, while he says, "May you have this year so many oxen, so many horses, so many sheep, so many pigs, so many beehives full of honey, so much good luck, prosperity, progress, and happiness!"

We went in, and turning aside from the broad thoroughfares which intersect the market at right angles, plunged at once into a net-work of crowded side-alleys, noisy and populous as a cluster of beehives.