Queen-bee

Queen-bee said, “Just go home again, but come back to-morrow at this time, and bring a large sheet with you, and then all will be well.”

Household Tales 2003

The bees came flying out, and the Queen-bee asked him if he had a stiff neck, since he held his head so awry?

Household Tales 2003

But the Queen-bee came out, threatened him and said,

Household Tales 2003

Queen-bee to hive the hither and thither volant swarm.

The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

The Queen-bee would thus lay female eggs or male eggs according as she fertilized them or not while they were passing into her oviduct.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

"Our sensible little Queen-bee," a rather broad-set, but very well-grown blonde of eighteen, distinguished herself in the dance by her beautiful steps, and her pleasing though rather too grave carriage.

The Home Fredrika Bremer 1833

-- Behold then the little Queen-bee, our eldest daughter, just turned ten years; and you will see a grave, fair girl, not handsome, but with a round, sensible face; from which I hope, by degrees, to remove a certain ill-tempered expression.

The Home Fredrika Bremer 1833

Most gracious sister Queen-bee, these rolls -- very nourishing and estimable rolls -- were they baked before or after the

The Home Fredrika Bremer 1833

We must even acknowledge that the little Queen-bee fell into a few excesses, such as jumping over ditches where they were the broadest, and clapping her hands and shouting to frighten away phlegmatical crows.

The Home Fredrika Bremer 1833

Henrik eyed his future preceptor with a joyous, confiding glance; the Queen-bee curtseyed very becomingly, and then made several steps backward as the young man seemed inclined to take the great liberty of kissing her; whilst Petrea turned up her nose with an inquisitive saucy air.

The Home Fredrika Bremer 1833