18 Before Milligan's the crowd began to buzz like murmuring hornets around a nest that has been tapped, when they pour out and cannot find the disturber.

From the lodges I could see troops of savages pouring forth with every token of excitement, like a swarm of hornets, and that something unusual was afoot might be told by the fact that no effort was made to keep beyond range of our guns, as the befeathered and painted horde went swiftly toward St. Leger's quarters.

The announcement that, in order to meet the requirements of the harvest-season, the brewers should be allowed to increase the output of beer by one-third, brought a swarm of hornets about the CHANCELLOR'S head.

My coachman deposited me at the corner of Saint Eustache, and said to me, "Here you are in the hornets' nest.

"There appears to be no eagerness on the part of any one of us to stick his hands into the northern hornets' nest, or to admit any responsibility for it.

If by evil chance your elephant should tread on their mound-like nest, instantly an angry swarm of venomous and enraged hornets comes buzzing about your ears.

We now beat slowly through the wood, keeping a bright look out for ants and hornets, and getting fine shooting at the numerous jungle fowl which flew about in amazing numbers.

Small lizards, centipedes, and scorpions were numerous about our encampment; and the trees and bushes about the tents were infested by myriads of hornets and other insects, particularly mosquitoes and small sandflies which annoyed us very much in the evenings.

The following spring another determined effort was made to starve out the garrison, but the arrival of Colonel Gage with reinforcements from Oxford put fresh heart into the "nest of hornets," and the news that their fortress had been renamed "Basting House" by their admiring friends stiffened their resolve.

This forest was most horribly fertile and abundant in gadflies and hornets, so that it was a very purgatory for asses and horses.

For as soon as she entered the forest, and the hornets gave the attack, she drew out her tail and swished it about, and swept down all the trees with as much ease as a mower cuts grass.

"But you," Brigham had roared, "standing there white and shaking at the hornets' nest you have stirred upyou are a cowardand that is why you praise men that are not cowardswhy you praise Zachary Taylor!" Brigham had a little time before declared that Zachary Taylor was dead and in hell, and that he, Brigham, was glad of it.

It was called the Vespaione, the Big Hornets' Nest.

This was the song that Raffaele Muti, plucking at his twelve harp strings, raised in the hall of the Big Hornets' Nest at twilight.

Now the shadow over the Big Hornets' Nest obscured even the glare of the summer sun.

" Round the Big Hornets' Nest the crows were thicker than ever.

" "It's ever so much nicer than mud," said Clara, who had rather a talent for getting into hornets' nests.

404, n. 3; history attacked in his presence, ii. 366; Holroyd, visits to, iii. 178, n. 1; 'hornets, accustomed to the buzzing of the,' ii. 448, n. 1; Horsley, Bishop, praises, iv.

Some makers of torpedo boats have thus been induced to slacken the trammels of an older theory and to apply a somewhat incomplete form of the author's reaction propeller for gaining some portion of the notable performance of these hornets of the deep.

Once we were assailed by more serious foes, in the shape of a nest of maribundi wasps, not the biggest kind, but about the size of our hornets.

They won't try anything yet a while, but they're madder than hornets, and they're sure to move on us later.

" Byron talked to-day of Leigh Hunt, regretted his ever having embarked in the "Liberal," and said that it had drawn a nest of hornets on him, but expressed a very good opinion of the talents and principle of Mr. Hunt, though, as he said, "our tastes are so opposite, that we are totally unsuited to each other.

It was like pokin' your finger in a hornets' nest.

Brodeur turned a knurled disk, and from one of the boxes on the grass a sudden, whining hum arose, like millions of angry hornets.

The colonies remained dependent for their defense on their own efforts, while privateers, freebooters, and pirates of the three nations at war with Spain settled like swarms of hornets in every available island in the West Indies.