Do we say bees or bise

bees 1338 occurrences

Our people are like a hive of bees, full of agitation before taking flight to a better place.

I conveyed also a great lump of bees-wax into the boat, which weighed above half a hundred weight, with a parcel of twine or thread, a hatchet, a saw, and a hammer, all which were of great use to us afterwards, especially the wax to make candles.

Does not the writer of this sentence recollect "My banks they are furnished with bees."

We did not hear the rover Winds in our coverlets of grass, the plough-shares tear the mould; We did not feel the bridal earth thrill to her April lover Nor hear the song of bees among the poppies and the clover; Snow-fall or sun to us were one and time went by untold.

The sun set, still they were orderly, as scientific and regular as the labour of only man and the bees.

BEES' NESTS.

Wageman is the painter, and nothing can describe the bonhommie of Harry, who has just drawn the cork of a pint of port, exulting in all the vainglory of crust and bees' wing.

And they came closer, clamouring and buzzing as it were like bees; and he looked and lo!

And not long afterwards, hearing that my daughter was to be given in marriage, suitors arrived like swarms of bees from every quarter of the world, attracted by her fame.

So then it happened that on a day we were together, blind and drunk with each other's presence, shut within the little hut like a pair of bees in a nectared lotus.

I am a bee, which not like other bees, roams roving to flower after flower, but confines itself exclusively to one.

Know[20], that long ago there lived at Wáránasí an independent lady, of beauty so extraordinary, that swarms of lovers use to buzz continually about her like great black bees about the mango blossom in the spring.

I put up my hands to my ears, in which they seemed to be buzzing and rustling like bees, to stop the sound.

The others are bright and busy as bees.

"Were they to venture up these lanes it would be like entering a hive of bees.

Bees and spiders afford many traits, but we quote the elephant and parrot: "I was one day feeding the poor elephant (who was so barbarously put to death at Exeter 'Change) with potatoes, which he took out of my hand.

He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy bloom, Nor heed nor see what things they be; But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality.

After a time of this, while Wilbur excitingly held the roan horse, made nervous by a hive of bees against the whitewashed fence, he came back to the buggywhich sagged from habit even when disburdened of its ownerand they drove to another farma red brick farmhouse, this time, with yellow roses climbing its front.

Dinner over, the Winnebagos fell upon the dishes like a swarm of bees and had them cleared up and washed in a twinkling.

Hinpoha flew upstairs and deposited her bottle of bees on the table in her room for future observation and started off with Mrs. Evans.

For instance, she left a bottle of bees standing on the table in her room, and Aunt Phoebe's dog Silky, who had been in the habit of going into the room and chewing Hinpoha's painted paddle, knocked the bottle over and let the bees out, getting badly stung in the process.

For instance, she left a bottle of bees standing on the table in her room, and Aunt Phoebe's dog Silky, who had been in the habit of going into the room and chewing Hinpoha's painted paddle, knocked the bottle over and let the bees out, getting badly stung in the process.

Often he had lain awake at night, restless with the memory of heliotrope, and phlox, and mignonette, and afternoons quiet except for the sound of bees.

HALVOSA, MARGARET COFFIN. Bees at home.

COLEMAN, MARY LOUISE. Bees in the garden and honey in the larder.

bise 7 occurrences

He took a ring from his hand and gave it into his hand, and clad him with a double stole furred with bise; and a golden collar he put about his neck, and made him to ascend upon his chair; the second trumpet crying that all men should kneel tofore him, and that they should know him upperest provost of all the land of Egypt.

sitôt que la bise a sifflé; Il rit quand l'équinoxe irrité le querelle Sinistrement, avec son haleine de grêle; Il est joyeux, ce burg, soldat encore debout, Quand, jappant comme un chien poursuivi par un loup, Novembre, dans la brume errant de roche en roche, Répond au hurlement de janvier qui s'approche.

Bien J'entends du bruit Non, dit Zéno, c'est la bise Qui souffle bêtement et qu'on prend pour quelqu'un.

la bise; Plus d'un monstre a grincé des dents sous son talon,

C'est l'heure , gai danseur, minuit rit et folâtre Sous le loup de satin qu'illuminent ses yeux, Et c'est l'heure minuit, brigand mystérieux, Voilé d'ombre et de pluie et le front dans la bise, Prend un pauvre marin frissonnant et le brise Aux rochers monstrueux apparus brusquement.

Tout à coup à ses yeux qui cherchent le chemin, Avec je ne sais quoi de lugubre et d'humain, Une sombre masure apparaît décrépite; Ni lumière, ni feu; la porte au vent palpite; Sur les murs vermoulus branle un toit hasardeux, La bise sur ce toit tord des chaumes hideux, jaunes, sales, pareils aux grosses eaux d'un fleuve.

La brume peut cacher dans le blême horizon Les Saturnes et les Mercures; La bise, conduisant la pluie aux crins épars, Dans les nuages lourds grondant de toutes parts Peut tordre des hydres obscures; Qu'importe?

Do we say   bees   or  bise