"Busy bee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repaired scale. The adder all her slough away she slings; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee her honey now she mings; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. HENRY ...
— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum
... Richard Whittington and his Cat. Aunt Busy Bee's New Series. Dean and Son. Coloured illustrations ...
— The History of Sir Richard Whittington • T. H.
... lug it much further'n the door; but, if you'll believe me, he seems to take it serious. Every mornin' after that I finds his hat on the hook when I come in, and whenever I gets a glimpse of him durin' the day he has his coat off and is makin' a noise like the busy bee. At this it takes some time before he makes an impression on Miller; but fin'lly Morty comes out to me with a bulletin that seems to tickle him ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford
... forces working according to fixed laws. See plants springing up under the sunlight, learn the secrets of plant life, and how their scents and colours attract the insects. Read how insects cannot live without plants, nor plants without the flitting butterfly or the busy bee. Realize that all this is worked by fixed laws, and that out of it (even if sometimes in suffering and pain) springs the wonderful universe around us. And then say, can you fear for your own little life, even though it may have its troubles? Can you help ...
— The Fairy-Land of Science • Arabella B. Buckley
... do all sorts of things so well, and work so hard. Why you beat the busy bee all to bits, and are worth ...
— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn
... he said, exhaling heartily, the scent of violet denying the pungency of fish and the pungency of fish denying the scent of violet. "How's the busy bee ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst
... like a golden busy bee," he answered. But tell me, how did you come to know enough about her to call her ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... a few steps was abounding life, that outside was the prosaic world passing and repassing a gate hard to enter. He whistled the fragment of a tune and went farther along this street of uncanny silence and vacancy, noting, as he went, the signs on the shop windows. There was the Busy Bee Restaurant, Jim's Place, the Hotel Renown, the Last Dollar Dance Hall, Hank's Pool Room. Upon one window was painted the terse announcement, "Joe—Buy or Sell." The Happy Days Bar ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson
... me, Busy Bee!" sobbed Lesa. "I have lost my comb, my golden comb. What shall I do? My mother will fret, my father will scold, my little sister will cry, and some harm will surely come to me if I ...
— A Kindergarten Story Book • Jane L. Hoxie |
