Apiarist's charge

Usage examples of bee.

In 1922 the United States had prohibited the import of foreign bees because they were bringing with them a tiny eight-legged tick called the Acarine mite.

Then the old woman rendring out like sighes, began to speake in this sort : My daughter take a good heart unto you, and bee not afeared at feigned and strange visions and dreams, for as the visions of the day are accounted false and untrue, so the visions of the night doe often change contrary.

Paula murmured, smiling to herself as she thought affectionately of Emily, her busy little bee forever trying to be of help.

In this way Bluenose gets led on to offer himself as a lovier, afore he knows where he bees.

Bees wandered among the heliotrope and verbena and pots of sapphire agapanthus, and even that shady place felt the hot breath of the summer noon.

There has cum a leter for a sertun persen this morning, with a Lundun posmark, and i do not now hand nor sele, but bad writting, which i have not seen wot contanes, but I may, for as you told me offen, you are anceus for welfare of our famly, as i now to be no more than trewth, so I am anceus to ascest you Sir, wich my conseynce is satesfid, but leter as trubeled a sertun persen oufull, hoo i new was engry, and look oufull put about, wich do not offen apen, and you may sewer there is sumthing in wind, he is alday so oufull peefish, you will not thing worse of me speeken plane as yo disier, there beeing a deel to regret for frends of the old famly i feer in a sertun resent marrege, if I shud lern be chance contense of letter i will sewer rite you.

In a few minutes the hated stench of the aldehyde would have driven any bees still hanging about the comb down to the next level in the hive.

This was much more the sort of room Ana had expected Bee to have Been living in.

Although Bee was her half sister, Ana tended to think of her as more of a sixteenth sister, or a sixty-fourth sister, or even, to put it decimally, a nought-point-nought-nought-nought-one-percent sister.

But on the other hand, Ana had always found Bee frus-tratingly shallow and occasionally downright cruel.

Bee grimaced at her sideways and Ana felt herself die a little inside.

And then Bee turned to talk to Gay, her interaction with Ana officially over.

The conversation between Bee and Gay was becoming predictably fractious, and Ana pulled herself from her daydreams.

But as the car disappeared into the exit tunnel and Bee thought she was out of view, Ana saw her drop her hand, break off her smile, and let her shoulders slump forward before turning and heading slowly toward the lifts.

Bee did send Ana a card, however, with a photograph of a lily on the front.