brood

• The worker-brood was then found to be healthy. —  Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual
• A week later the brood is all hatched and the parental troubles begin The old birds," says Mr. Stanley, "do not fail to provide food for their young, although as the birds get large the old ones have to go sometimes many miles to do it, but, as a general thing, there is plenty for them. —  Days Off And Other Digressions
• As a mother-bird, when her brood is assailed, goes forward to meet the enemy, or as a good shepherd stands forth between his flock and danger, so Jesus, when His captors drew nigh, threw Himself between them and His followers. —  The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion
• As for the appearance of the brood, and of Jack after a spree among the hay, the word has yet to be invented which will correctly describe it The two military-looking farmers are spoken of by the people around as philanthropists. —  Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
• This first brood was about over, and I thought our work was about over. —  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951

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