"Busy bee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and announced the arrival of the superintendent of the Crown domains, a mild-eyed old man, with deep creases round his mouth, who was excessively fond of nature, especially on a summer day, when, in his words, 'every little busy bee takes a little bribe from every little flower.' ...
— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
... regarding this, he continued, 'Do you know I am come from Turkey, and there are plenty of ladies there, who go out to walk with a sack over their heads, but I never saw one of them sit on a tombstone to hear a little girl say the Busy Bee. Should you like to ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... heartily, the scent of violet denying the pungency of fish and the pungency of fish denying the scent of violet. "How's the busy bee this evening?" ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst
... "I ca'n't remember the things I used to know—I've tried to say "How doth the little busy bee" and it ...
— Alice's Adventures Under Ground • Lewis Carroll
... forth the tools, "I want you to take this junk and go up there where the neighbor is working. Just sit down quietly and drill three shallow holes and don't say a word to yonder busy bee. If he asks you what's doing, play possum—and don't ...
— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels
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