| 单词 | wasps' nest |
| 例句 | In Film Socialisme, he again puts his hand in the wasps' nest with such lines as: "How strange that Hollywood should be invented by the Jews." Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?' 2011-07-12T20:30:03Z Stephen Cockroft was stung 42 times after accidentally disturbing a wasps' nest in his back garden. I was stung 42 times by a swarm of wasps 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Daring to criticise the government's policies is like poking a wasps' nest, unleashing vitriol on social media the likes of which I've never seen. Covering Turkey's terror: 'Each time it hits hard' - BBC News 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z Suddenly he was kind of speaking funny and he just didn't sound right” As Mr Funston answered a phone call, the children searched for conkers in nearby trees, disturbing a wasps' nest. Children save dad after wasp sting 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z I wouldn't use this stuff to smoke out a wasps' nest. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z While Simon was impatiently expecting succour from Jamaica, and astonished at Mansvelt's really unavoidable silence, the8 Spaniards were preparing to smoke out the wasps' nest that lay so dangerously near their orchard. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z Nazareth, clinging like a wasps' nest under the eaves of its chalky hills, was many leagues ahead, and the sun must set and rise again before he could climb up its sun-white streets. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Well, who told little brother to walk into somebody else's wasps' nest. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z The name vesparium given to the allied species on account of its resemblance to a wasps' nest applies with almost equal force to this Burmese form. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z By and by as the hare was running along she saw a large wasps' nest hanging from the branch of a tree, so she sat down and watched it intently. Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country They are filled with cells like the wasps' nest, with dens like menageries, with subterranean passages like the haunts of moles, with dungeons like Bastiles, with ambuscades like a camp. Toilers of the Sea I will not meddle with the wasps' nest of the priests. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) He's a clever young fellow, no doubt—showed pluck and resource in saving the girl; but I don't know that I should like to send him into that wasps' nest. Barclay of the Guides It stirred up a wasps' nest of perplexities. When Ghost Meets Ghost The hare showed the tiger the wasps' nest on the tree and said: "That is the finest gong in all the hill and water country." Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country I might as well have been in a wasps' nest. Phemie Frost's Experiences He was doing nothing more dreadful than digging out a wasps' nest. The Manor House School Wilkins," I said, "there is a wasps' nest on the third green, and here is some special wasp-eradicator. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 He showed her the ground-hogs' hole beside the hollow stump and the wasps' nest in the fence corner, until at last friendly relations were once more established. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Dear Mr. Punch,—You may remember that Queen Victoria recorded in her Journal in the Highlands that 'Vicky sat down on a wasps' nest.' Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 19th, 1914 It was in the middle of this operation that many hostile seaplanes, stirred up like a wasps' nest by our 'planes earlier in the morning, came out and started dropping bombs. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories "Did you ever put your hand into a wasps' nest?" The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys Just at present there will be a good deal of that, for we have been stirring up a wasps' nest, and mayhap they may come and try to sting. Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower There used to be a wasps' nest in that bank, but it's closed now, same as the German banks. Berry And Co. The hotel was like a disturbed wasps' nest, and the buzzing of the chatterers and the gossips well-nigh deafening. The Hawk of Egypt "That reminds me I must take a wasps' nest to-night," said her father. The Spinners I take my lens, therefore—to the little wonder of a brown wasps' nest with blue-winged wasps in it,—and perceive therewith the following particulars. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers The wasps' nest had suddenly turned into a beehive. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl He was shrewd as well as high-spirited; he was not covetous for the garden if the wasps' nest remained undemolished. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees I'm not going to be smoked like a wasps' nest, I can tell you! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891 It is therefore not to be endured that your small wasps' nest yonder should continue to infest our ambient ocean with her petty and poisonous alarms. St George's Cross "Surely Anna isn't trying to smoke out that wasps' nest," she thought in sudden alarm. Kitty Trenire You may sit close to a wasps' nest for hours, and, if you keep still, receive no injury. The Amateur Poacher There was a big wasps' nest on the branch and the air was filled with flying little pests. Dick in the Everglades The moon rose towards midnight, and as soon as it was clear of the downs, every one except the rat-hole sentinels started off in single file, led by Cossar, towards the wasps' nest. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth Then, besides, you are coming to a tree where there is a wasps' nest. Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind It would be as wise to kick over the wasps' nest, and think that you have done with the wasps. The Refugees I'm sure there's a wasps' nest somewhere; there are so many of them about. Angels & Ministers I love to "sit at ease and look down upon the wasps' nest beneath;" to listen to the dull murmur of the human tide ebbing and flowing ceaselessly through the narrow streets and lanes below. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Except that it was a longer labour, it was no graver affair than any common wasps' nest might have been. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth "Wasps' nest," said her mother; "it was a wasps' nest." Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind So, setting about it as methodically as men might smoke out a wasps' nest, the Martians spread this strange stifling vapour over the Londonward country. The War of the Worlds We regret to chronicle that Miss Sara Ray met with a misfortune while taking some violent exercise with a wasps' nest recently. The Golden Road "I'm very much afraid," he said to her as they walked along, "that you're butting that pretty head of yours into a wasps' nest, Mary!" The Yellow Streak They could see nothing of the rats as they came up to the house, and everything seemed perfectly still except for the rising and falling "whoozzzzzzZZZ, whoooo-zoo-oo" of the wasps' nest. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth My delight is to stay at home as coy as a young maid, without hurting anybody or moving any more than a milestone; but 'ware the wasps, if you go stirring up the wasps' nest! The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 In short, we seem to have taken up our abode in a wasps' nest. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. The moral is that it is better not to monkey with a wasps' nest, new or old. The Golden Road See that when there is another Prior in Borough you do not find Hereward the Berserker smoking you out some dark night, as he would smoke a wasps' nest. Hereward, the Last of the English There was a busy coming and going from the wasps' nest, they saw. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth When a school is in a healthy, normal condition, it should be stirred up by a bad defeat by another school, like a disturbed wasps' nest. The White Feather A converted Iroquois had told the governor before his departure that, if he overset a wasps' nest, he must crush the wasps, or they would sting him. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV Sometimes a dozen caciques will hang their nests in close proximity to a wasps' nest, as if for additional protection. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations "We'll have you down though we smoke you out like a wasps' nest, you disloyal adder, you," was one of the threats. Under the Storm So far as the wasps' nest went, they found their task exceptionally easy—astonishingly easy. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth Ha, ha! a girl like that in the house is like a honey-pot near a wasps' nest, and the little sister will be as bad. Beechcroft at Rockstone The tragedy of the wasps' nest at the approach of the first chills of winter is the final fragment of an epic. Fabre, Poet of Science Whether garbed as she is or otherwise, it is easy for her to effect her purpose in the dark, on condition that she avoids the tumultuous interior of the wasps' nest. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Canada had been conquered not for the good it might bring but for the harm it was doing as a base for French attack upon the English colonies—"the wasps' nest must be smoked out." The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor "There he is, rushing into the wasps' nest of the rakes of the day," said Rastignac. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Nevertheless, you penetrate into the terrible cavern; you are able to stay there for a long time, without danger, as the eggs profusely strewn on the wrapper of the wasps' nest show. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography For so say the police regulations of the wasps' nest: any stranger discovered must be slain and thrown on the midden. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography It is a familiar guest, to whom no denizen of a wasps' nest bears any ill will. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography They abound on the outer surface of the wasps' nest. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Inside the wasps' nest, robust grubs are the rule and weaklings the rare exception, because of the assiduous supervision which eliminates anything that is diseased and like to die. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography How shall it be with the vast stores of a ruined wasps' nest! The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Once inside the wasps' nest, she is taken for one of the inhabitants and attends quietly to her business. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Let us turn our attention, in September, to the wrapper of a wasps' nest. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Satisfied with the spoils of the dead, they do not touch the living; they do not ravage the wasps' nest: they disinfect it. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography And a suspicion comes to one's mind: can it be that the Volucella and the rest are not what the accepted theories of natural history call them, namely, enemies, grub killers sacking the wasps' nest? The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography There are plenty of others, which we must make up our minds to leave unlabelled, in view of the jumbled crowd of feasters in the ruined wasps' nest. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography |
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