But deprive a Fat man of his little clam-bake, and it would be full as pleasant as settin' down onto a Hornet's nest, when the Hornet family were all to home.

Pennington was determined to stir up a hornet's nest for Dave Darrin.

The fight at what was known as the "hornet's nest" was most terrific, and had not the First battery held out so heroically and valiantly the rebels would have succeeded in forcing a retreat of the Union lines to a point dangerously near the Tennessee river.

" Thereupon, Bandy-legs, as though realizing that he had raised a hornet's nest about his ears, deemed it the part of discretion to shrug his shoulders after the manner of one who, "convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

It may be a service of danger to enter that hornet's nest; and no one who has left his soldier's heart at home with his wife or his children, had better attempt it.'

This is a hornet's nest, and this is a branch of an apple tree, with a swing-bird's nest on it.

Ef anny one hed a wanted tew hev seen a walkin' hornet's nest, they could hev done it cheap that night, as I went hum.

[Fr.]; firebrand, hornet's nest.

incur blame, excite disapprobation, scandalize, shock, revolt; get a bad name, forfeit one's good opinion, be under a cloud, come under the ferule, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.

It was renewed again and again, without success, as before, when, provoked apparently by the presence of this hornet's nest, which reversed all his plans, General Burnside, about ten o'clock, opened a furious fire of artillery upon the city.

The Duke of Buckingham made a speech against us, in which he mistook every point, and gave me a great disposition to follow him; but I knew if I did I should have a whole hornet's

They came on foot and on horseback, and left their horses in the bushes and crowded the streets and filled the saloon of one Jack Woodswho had the cackling laugh of Satan and did not like the Guard, for good reasons, and whose particular pleasure was to persuade some customer to stir up a hornet's nest of trouble.

He should have seen windmills in one man's head, an hornet's nest in another.

Who thwarts what fondly all expect, He bath disturbed a hornet's nest; The empire which they should protect, It lieth plundered and oppress'd.

He was generally attached to the realty, like a hornet's nest, but not necessary to it.

Those are Monsieur de Denonville's orders, and if they be not carried out to the letter, then we shall have the whole hornet's nest about our ears.

"Who but a madman would venture into such a hornet's nest alone!

"We have struck the hornet's nest," he said.

Silence in times of suffering is the best, 'Tis dangerous to disturb an hornet's nest.

Hero of Hornet's nest: a biography of Elijah Clark, 1733 to 1799.

Hero of Hornet's nest: a biography of Elijah Clark, 1733 to 1799.

Little did OLD MORALITY think, when in moment of weakness he showed this important document to HANBURY, what a hornet's nest it would bring about his unoffending head.

Disturbing a hornet's nest. 5.

You look as if you were sitting in a hornet's nest.

All civilization was by the earsit had become a hornet's nest prodded by a pole no one could understand or parry.