bee-martin

It was part of her dance to drop from that perch as daintily as a bee-martin way-laying a hive, devour each home-coming word as he devours bees, and flit back and twitter and flutter as a part of all nature's harmony, though in chills of dismay at her peril and yet burning to go to Hilary, from whom this task alone forever held her away.

Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

"ONE time," said Uncle Remus, sighing heavily and settling himself back in his seat with an air of melancholy resignation -- "one time Brer Rabbit wuz gwine 'long down de road shakin 'his big bushy tail, en feelin' des ez scrumpshus ez a bee-martin wid a fresh bug."

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

'Twix 'de bug en de bee-martin' tain't hard ter tell w'ich gwineter git kotch.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

'Twix' de bug en de bee-martin 'tain't hard ter tell w'ich gwineter git kotch.

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878

Dar dey is, spite er dat, -- wum in de scaly-bark, bee-martin atter de buzzud. "

Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

N'er man come 'long en ax me who raise de row 'twix' de buzzud en de bee-martin. [

Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

N'er man come 'long en ax me who raise de row 'twix' de buzzud en de bee-martin. [

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

Dar dey is, spite er dat, -- wum in de scaly-bark, bee-martin atter de buzzud. "

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878