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It is enough to visit one of those compulsory human beehives and to see how a military discipline carries a brutal hypocrisy into it.
Upton roused himself from a reverie into which he had fallen as he sat at his study window and watched his favorite beehives.
Their huts are constructed in the form of a beehive, and are perfectly water-tight and warm.
Males and females were all employed in this duty, the Reef resembling a beehive just at that point.
It was very quiet up here; but he listened with considerable curiosity to the strange humming sound that filled the air, rising and falling, as of a beehive.
After viewing the orchard and the beehives beneath the trees, I remarked on the size of the plant, and its suitability for his purpose.
A fact not well understood and appreciated is that the Eskimo beehive snow house represents true arch building.
The feast was going on; all seemed jolly, all were drinking, all were noisy as bees in a beehive.
We looked round our domain and decided which should be her room, and which mine, where we would have our avenue, our kitchen garden, our beehives.
The cave was in a beehive-shaped pile of rocks standing on, or rather projecting from, a steep hillside.
The only other evidences of human life we had come across were a few beehives suspended in the trees.
Within were groups of beehive houses with small naked children and perhaps an old woman or old man seated cross-legged under a sort of veranda.
In a quarter of an hour the great metropolis seemed nothing but a giant beehive, with millions of busy workers ever hurrying in hundreds of different directions.
It was shaped something like a huge beehive, being about a dozen feet in diameter and five feet high.
The beehives at this little inn still stood fresh, compact, with flowers blooming around them, the kindly woman evidently taking great pride in her bees.
Under their conditions it is perhaps difficult to say what other course can or ought to be taken, for their homes are like beehives, and "swarming" time inevitably comes.
There was a small garden in front, with a row of beehives humming among beds of sweet herbs and flowers.
The brain builds simplified models (maps) of the external reality, marking the position of the beehive and the position of the bee in flight and updating that all the time.
When a young bee comes out of the beehive, it will start flying around it, in wider and wider circles, but only on clear days.
This means that it calculates its position relative to the beehive and compares the prediction with external reality, as given by direct view.
In their place they are as vital and necessary as the code which governs the life of a beehive is to its successful conduct.
A large beehive-shaped bamboo basket over another grave was a reminder of the time when a grave needed such protection in order to save the body from wild animals.
The roof of the jail becomes transparent, and the whole interior is revealed, like that of a beehive under glass.
Every monastery was an inn, as well as a beehive, to which all travelers resorted, and where no pay was exacted.
Or did you ever see the cells of a beehive in clumsy, irregular shapes, or observe anything like a discussion in the little community, as if there were a difference of opinion among the architects?
They seldom had anything to eat except bread and milk, and vegetables, with sometimes a little honey from their beehives, or a few ripe pears and apples from their little garden.
The people and villages now change much in appearance for the huts are shaped like beehives and are made of frameworks of wood covered with grass.
It was fired in queer little white plastered ovens set in front of each house, looking somewhat like beehives placed on top of strong tables.
Then Uncle Mark and Sam the hired man took a beehive, a ladder, and a saw and went down to the orchard.
On my side, I returned to my beehive chair, and set myself down on the sunny side of the court, and fell (if the truth must be owned), not exactly into a sleep, but into the next best thing to it.
The houses in the town to which they welcomed us are of a beehive shape; the sides open during the day, but closed at nights by blinds made from the leaves of the coconut tree.
There is no question about the fact that this is a "beehive" into which a bee can enter, if accepted, with nothing but his soul and his muscle, and get a good education!
It's as busy as a beehive with its clubs and model playgrounds, its New Thought and its "Journal," but I don't have to be of it.
The little village inn was full to overflowing and the hum of voices within was like the noise of an excited beehive.
Meanwhile, the queen, wild with fright, was galloping at full speed from the hostile beehive she had disturbed.
In the two or three beehive huts which I explored, there was not a single article of furniture, nor a mat to lie down upon.
Beyond, groups of islands rose above the liquid plain, so numerous and close together as to resemble a vast beehive.
From the beehive close by, no one came to give new life with tears and offerings to the ephemeral personality they once had, to the name which marked them for a moment.
Industrial and martial beehive though it would seem to be, there are provided for the native and the foreigner feasts of music, of art, and of study that cost little.
The figure moved over to this, and, as it left the beehive "dumps," a second figure replaced it.
Amid just such a murmur has Master Cheever spent above sixty years; and long habit has made it as pleasant to him as the hum of a beehive when the insects are busy in the sunshine.
If Frederick the Great started the beehive, William the Second was increasing its size to unbelievable proportions.
The inn on that side had been built into a small hill of beehive shape, which had been partly levelled to make way for the foundations.
Thereupon a very cold masculine voice sounded through the door: "Madam, this is not a beehive; it's a bathroom!"
Choking with tears, she rushed out of the room, and took refuge in the swing down by the beehives.
For instance, several years ago I noticed that one of the combs in a beehive, owing to the extreme heat, had become melted at the top and was in great danger of falling to the floor.
We are going to see John Hutton's beehives; he has got some new glass ones, and he says it is so interesting to watch the little creatures at work.
I came, however, on a gigantic beehive; at least it resembled one in appearance, though the smoke that issued from a hole in its top suggested humanity.
Meanwhile, Joe and Dick formed a sort of beehive-looking hut by bending down the stems of a tall bush and thrusting their points into the ground.
The scenes about the town were assuming the proportions of a vast beehive of the most earnest and enthusiastic workers that it was possible to imagine.
"It will have to hang there," she said, pointing to the "Eruption of Vesuvius," "where that beehive is."
Lennon was too intent upon overtaking her to more than glance at the stand of rough-made beehives, the kitchen garden, and the goat and chicken sheds, past which his pony galloped.
The huts are small, with low walls of clay and roofs of grass, so that from a distance the place looks like a wilderness of beehives.
Then the men went outdoors, where the beehives, poultry houses, barns and orchards of the farm afforded several hours of inspection and discussion.
I was amused at one point, to see some soldiers attack a beehive that they might seize the honey.
One prince even showed them how to make beehives, and how to use the honey as an article of food.
At length some circular, beehive-looking huts appeared in sight, with a few people moving about in front of them.
When I was a very small boy, I once caught a dozen of them, and made a little beehive to hold them, thinking that they would settle down and make themselves at home, just like bees or pigeons.
Then there were the beehives, which were filling with honey, and some late chickens, which were going to chip out of the shell in a week.
Preparations for departure were everywhere visible, and every sunny day (rather rare now) the streets were as crowded and as busy as beehives.
All around there was a hum of voices as in a beehive when the swarm of young bees is ready to fly out into the world.
Within doors the beehive was preparing to swarm, packing trunks, emptying straw ticks, cleaning out rooms.
His uneasiness was not in any way quieted by his seeing that one of the white boxes stood, uncovered, before the two and that it was a beehive.
Colonel Long's is a typical Southern establishment: a white house, or rather three houses, all of one story, built on to each other as beehives are set in a row, all porches and galleries.
Indeed, they employ all their energies, so that the owner of the beehive shall gain high profits.
Now that I had stirred up this beehive and set it swarming again, I had no inclination to turn drone.
I saw the children emerge, like bees out of a beehive, and loneliness no longer reigned over that bald yard in the betraying northern sunlight.
In the rush of action from the delegates, reporters, clerks, and messengers, the place resembled a beehive.
He was almost knocked down, and his head hummed like a beehive; but he could not, to save his life, tell which ear had been boxed, nor which he ought to rub.
No sooner had he entered the hills than he could see at either hand the entrances to caves, one close beside the other, like a row of beehives.
Cousin D. had invited a dozen people to try his new yacht, and when they all came swarming in, it was cheerful as a beehive.
Upstairs there was to be a beehive of bedrooms, floor above floor, and each floor as low as the building regulations permitted.
Between this article and the best of those works there will be found a general agreement, except as it respects beehives.
Beehives in the well-stocked gardens were filled with honey, and the straw-thatched barns had their doors thrown wide open, as though waiting to receive the harvest.
Again he thought how many hundred brothers lived together in a beehive, all working like the old folks.
Up above, in the beehive that was the publishing house which gave them their livelihood, the word had gone around.
The incessant washing of the water for centuries had so rounded its summit, that it resembled a large beehive in shape, its form being more than usually regular and even.
The people who sold in these tents were as strange as their neighbors; each had a little high cap on his head, in shape just like a beehive, and it was made of straw, and had a little hole in front.
Groups of hastily constructed huts, in shape and material resembling huge beehives, stood around in an irregular circle, leaving a large open space in the center.
Did you ever open the outside casing of one of these large patent beehives and see the bees at work inside?
In those early ages there was no sugar, and honey was greatly valued, so that beehives were kept everywhere.
My one fear was that she would reach the Waldorf, or some equally complex beehive of human life, before I could overtake her.
They followed me among the villages of beehive huts in the lands of the naked savages along the upper Nile.
As he wheeled around, gazing over the beehive of activity in Flight Control, he could already feel the adrenaline beginning to build.
Occasionally, a company has discovered that a good food supply can easily be obtained close to a beehive.
A little farther there stands a long low cottage with a garden in front, an orchard at the side, and a row of beehives in a corner, presenting a scene of rural abundance.
Suddenly one of the donkeys kicked over a beehive, and out flew the bees to revenge themselves on the donkeys.
Barbara grew angry, and lost all command of herself, when she saw that Susan, without regarding her reproaches, went on looking through the glass pane in the beehive.
Here was the beehive hut with the sacred fire, and all other temples or public buildings there might be would open on this square.
Here he had a garden, fig trees and vines, and beehives; and here he used to sit at evening and watch the flight of the birds across the river.
Each carried a round, strong basket lined with clay and covered with a beehive-shaped lid of a peculiar shape.
These, and the multitude of people coming to visit or do business with him, made the castle like a beehive on the point of swarming.
Some of their number had struck down some beehives formed of hollow gum logs ranged near the garden fence.
With this he approached the beehive chair, felt the wrist, looked in the face, and knew that Andrew Fisher had gone to his account.
To my vague astonishment I found the place humming like a beehive and alive with moving figures.
A priest once travelling along a solitary road, heard a most harmonious sound proceeding from a beehive.
He came closer to it, and he saw beehives woven from straw, and bees were swarming around and buzzing.
Beehives are made out of the softest and rottenest wood; the very best are made from rotten willow wood.
The well was like a tiny dripping cave, about as big as a beehive, with a few inches of water in it; a great boulder stood guard over it, and above it stooped the ancient and twisted thorn bush.
It is said that they will frequent a favorite position near a beehive and make frequent trips back and forth, and hundreds of empty bodies of bees are found beneath this perch.