Still they must often suffer, but they are used to the pain and learn to bear it impassively, as without doing so no man could be a bee-hunter. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The bee-hunter now took hold of the bush-rope just above the torch and passed the other end around the trunk of the tree, holding one end in each hand. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Indians, desperadoes and wild beasts, but he finally got to the neighborhood of San Antonio, and fell in with another adventurer, a bee-hunter, also on his way to join the Texans. ❋ Burton Egbert Stevenson (1917)
The bee-hunter takes advantage of this fact; he betrays her with a little honey. ❋ Unknown (1914)
So, with haversacks filled with grapes and peaches and apples and a bottle of milk, for we shall not be home to dinner, and armed with a compass, a hatchet, a pail, and box with a piece of comb honey neatly fitted into it, any box the size of your hand with a lid will do nearly as well as the elaborate and ingenious contrivance of the regular bee-hunter, we sally forth. ❋ Unknown (1914)
The bumblebee is an insect of which the bee-hunter sees much. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Your native bee-hunter predicates the distance of the tree by the time the bee occupies in making its first trip. ❋ Unknown (1914)
The regular bee-hunter professes to be able to tell a wild bee from a tame one by the color, the former, he says, being lighter. ❋ Unknown (1914)
More than one hairbreadth escape did the old hunter have from Indians, desperadoes and wild beasts, but he finally got to the neighborhood of San Antonio, and fell in with another adventurer, a bee-hunter, also on his way to join the Texans. ❋ Stevenson, Burton E (1913)
Into this scene Cooper called some creatures of his fancy; among them a bee-hunter, suggested by the following incident. ❋ Phillips, Mary E (1912)
When the bee-hunter had crushed the dozen bees comprising the nest, he dug down to the secret hidden in the roots of the grass and found that it was much sweeter than the maple syrup which they had given him at the farmhouse. ❋ Clarence Hawkes (1901)
As the swift-footed deer trailer, the patient bee-hunter, the silent lover of the forest, he had held my regard and though he had never quite risen to the high place which my Uncle David occupied in my boyhood's worship, he had always been to me a picturesque and kindly figure. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
Under its folds rode the spirit of gallant fraternity -- a little, old man with a grizzled beard and with stars on his shoulders, his hands folded on the pommel of his saddle, his eyes lifted dreamily upward -- they called him the "bee-hunter," from that habit of his in the old war -- his father's old comrade, little Jerry ❋ John Fox (1891)
Texas was a wild place in those days, and the old hunter had more than one hairbreadth escape from Indians, desperadoes, and savage beasts, ere he got to the neighborhood of San Antonio, and joined another adventurer, a bee-hunter, bent on the same errand as himself. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
The bumble-bee is an insect of which the bee-hunter sees much. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
