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This one is about a teenage white girl in about 1964, who flees her abusive father to the far side of South Carolina, where she ends up living with the same black family of bee-keepers who had sheltered her mother many years before.
Four BF audios nwhyte 2009
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Then a couple of weeks ago, we were trekking across the top part of the trail when I see a figure covered in black bee-keepers mesh coming towards us.
Max Mutchnick: They're Not Water Bottles, They're Babies 2009
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We could all boycott the beach until sundown or protect ourselves by donning modified bee-keepers 'rigs — broad-brimmed hats, long-sleeved shirts and proper trousers.
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Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon – which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe – was beginning to hit Britain as well.
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The Eastern Cape's black bee-keepers will enter the honey market next month with the launch of the country's first black-led honey producers 'organisation, the provincial agriculture department announced on Wednesday.
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There are reasonable inferences we can make from his writings, for example that he consulted with bee-keepers, fishermen and sponge divers, that he performed a great many dissections on a wide variety of animals, that there were at least some diagrams based on these dissections, and so on.
Aristotle's Biology Lennox, James 2006
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When the bees inside the hive hang clustering to one another, it is a sign that the swarm is intending to quit; consequently, occasion, when a bee-keepers, on seeing this, besprinkle the hive with sweet wine.
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Some bee-keepers sprinkle their bees with flour, and can distinguish them from others when they are at work out of doors.
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With this material they besmear the groundwork, to provide against attacks of other creatures; the bee-keepers call this stuff ‘stop-wax’.
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As for the class of bee that has been spoken of as inferior or good-for-nothing, and as constructing its combs so roughly, some bee-keepers say that it is the young bees that act so from inexperience; and the bees of the current year are termed young.
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