The female tumblers found hornets on their stockings, and everywhere, and they gave a female war whoop and rushed for the dressing room.

Out flew the hornets in every direction.

At first, he says, he thought it was produced by a fly, or hornet of extraordinary size; but afterwards, having advanced a little farther, he heard a multitude of different voices, which harmonised together, imitating a church organ to great perfection.

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.

The negro wanted to know how I could prevent the hornets from stinging our own men, and I told him that we had been in the hornet business all the season and never had one of our own men stung.

Upon the return of the Hornet to the United States, her brave commander, Capt. Lawrence, was promoted for his gallantry to the command of the unfortunate Chesapeake, and to which he was followed by young Gibbs, who took a very distinguished part in the engagement with the Shannon, which resulted in the death of Lawrence and the capture of the Chesapeake.

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.

From hence we dream of wars and warlike things, And wasps and hornets with their double wings.

"Darry, old man," murmured Hallam, "Pen is as crazy as a hornet against you.

Wherever there is a square mile of water the waterplanes will come and go like hornets at the mouth of their nest.

BRITISH brig Peacock captured the Hornet off the Demarara, South America,Feb. 24.

The British general knew what was coming; he knew that he would start the German hornets out of their nest when he took the trench; he knew, too, that he could rely upon his men to hold till they were told to retire or there were none left to retire.