"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
... 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 |
