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  • These two classes are to the State what phlegm and bile are to the human body; and the State-physician, or legislator, must get rid of them, just as the bee-master keeps the drones out of the hive.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • And the good physician and lawgiver of the State ought, like the wise bee-master, to keep them at a distance and prevent, if possible, their ever coming in; and if they have anyhow found a way in, then he should have them and their cells cut out as speedily as possible.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • Earlier, Henry James had been airily dismissed in favor of Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian bee-master.

    The Romance of Sinclair Lewis Vidal, Gore 1992

  • Germain you would have found the country people saying charms which were hoary with age, parts of the lay sung by the Frankish ploughman over his bewitched land long before he marched southwards into the Roman Empire, or parts of the spell which the bee-master performed when he swarmed his bees on the shores of the Baltic Sea.

    Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

  • He read out Abel's name and that of an old bent man with grey elf-locks, a famous bee-master.

    Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

  • Antony of St. Hubert, besides the care of the refectory, was bee-master and hive-maker; and a great preacher in German, though he had come to Laach knowing only his native French.

    The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

  • When the native bee-master came and shook the double swarm into a couple of hives, the little tree stayed crooked.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • If you want to study bees, get the old bee-master to tell you how to set about it. '

    Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873

  • Some weeks later, Olive had an opportunity of watching the bee-master when he removed the honey from the hives.

    Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873

  • Hwita, bee-master at Hatfield, and he had a daughter Tate, mother of Wulfsige, the bowman; and Wulfsige's sister Lulle has Hehstan to wife, at Walden.

    Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873

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