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More "Busy bee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little more troublesome, as they had to be folded and basted; but still, it was an easy task, and Patty worked away like a busy bee. ...
— Patty's Success • Carolyn Wells
... he was in the act of doing one cold day, when the last drowsy sound of Twelve o'clock, just struck, was humming like a melodious monster of a Bee, and not by any means a busy bee, all ...
— The Chimes • Charles Dickens
... flurry &c. (haste) 684. officiousness; dabbling, meddling; interference, interposition, intermeddling; tampering with, intrigue. press of business, no sinecure, plenty to do, many irons in the fire, great doings, busy hum of men, battle of life, thick of the action. housewife, busy bee; new brooms; sharp fellow, sharp blade; devotee, enthusiast, zealot, meddler, intermeddler, intriguer, busybody, pickthank[obs3]; hummer, hustler, live man [U.S.], rustler * [U. S.]. V. be active &c. adj.; busy oneself ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... fixed laws. See plants springing up under the sunlight, learn the secrets of plant life, and how their scents and colours attract the insects. Read how insects cannot live without plants, nor plants without the flitting butterfly or the busy bee. Realize that all this is worked by fixed laws, and that out of it (even if sometimes in suffering and pain) springs the wonderful universe around us. And then say, can you fear for your own little ...
— The Fairy-Land of Science • Arabella B. Buckley
... Oh! busy bee, On wing so free, Yet all in order true; Each seems to know, Both where to go, And ...
— Chatterbox Stories of Natural History • Anonymous
... have the chance for an old-time chat, but she made me promise to come and see her, and 'pon my word, just as young and pretty as you please, with a fine face veil and a purple feather boa and shopping out of the Busy Bee bins just the way she ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
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