The Piutes always use burning fagots to drive hornets and other stinging insects from their nests, and they also use heat in opening the comb cells so that they can easily remove the larvae, which they eat without further preparation.

Pa dropped his lantern and began to fight hornets, and then all the white trash in pa's bunch rushed up and began to whack my poor downtrodden negroes with their Chinese lanterns.

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.

The hornets got busy and went for the elephants and the Japanese jugglers, and they stampeded like they never met a hornet before.

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.

When they saw the hornets, they dropped irons, spoons, jars, everything, and rushed out of doors screaming.

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.

" This was enough to animate the courage of the boyssome of them not more than five years old pushed ahead of their elder brothers, eager to show to their fathers, who accompanied them, how little they feared their enemies, as they termed the hornets.

" In the house I have seen her catch one by the wings on a window and, holding it carefully ask me to watch her captivesometimes a a great daredevil hornet, lion-manedas he lay stabbing with his poison-dagger.