| 单词 | hornets' nest |
| 例句 | "The other thing is, when you kick the hornets' nest, sometimes issues arise that you then go and deal with," Fine added, suggesting that Disney went outside its purview by rebuking H.B. "Undemocratic and unfair": Ron DeSantis' Disney stunt leaves Florida holding the bag 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z He also said any investigation should look into whether or not there was "a real hornets' nest of other WW2 criminals" working for the UK. MI6 accused of helping to protect alleged Nazi war criminals 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Then there's the high-profile conflict with Chechnya, as well as lesser-known squabbles with ethnic groups in the Russian North Caucasus, a veritable hornets' nest of long-term political discontent where an Islamist insurgency boils. The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics is a political tinderbox for Russia 2013-01-02T12:13:10Z In any event, he could stir a hornets' nest into furious activity and search the innermost recesses of the Grange with anguish-laden darts. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z Bess's folly in bringing this hornets' nest about their ears had shaken her influence with the men; and the day had been one long exchange of savage recriminations. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z "I cannot afford, sire, to get a hornets' nest about my ears for nothing." The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z I have no desire to return into your hornets' nest. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z What I am now certain of, however, is that my speculative wandering accidentally kicked a hidden hornets' nest. Former CIA Man: Don't Bet on Israel Bombing Iran on My Speculation! 2011-07-21T06:30:00Z Soon after the first paper was published Mr. Howells wrote me that it had "brought a hornets' nest about his ears," but that he was determined to go on with the series. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z I believe there's something in that," said I. "We've never run into such a hornets' nest as this before. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z He had brought a veritable hornets' nest about his ears. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z By missing that fellow, he allowed him to bring this hornets' nest about our ears. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z If the President continues to shake the hornets' nest by refusing to cede oversight and administrative power to the Parliament, then the fireworks show will continue. Iran: Where Politics is a Distraction from Making Money 2011-06-05T14:05:00Z It was a hornets' nest, not easily routed out. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z The Huns, who had converted the peaceful little Belgian fishing port into a hornets' nest, were to be allowed no rest. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z I disturbed the hornets' nest of 9/11 conspiracy theorists while called Loose Change, which claimed that 9/11 was a set-up by the Bush administration. Old and news 2011-02-23T02:17:16Z On Tuesday, the US Federal Communications Commission, which has the power to set the rules for internet use in the US, issued a ruling which administered the latest kick to the hornets' nest. Is this the beginning of the end for the open internet? 2010-12-26T00:02:02Z When U.S. troops arrived there in Spring 2009, they disturbed something of a hornets' nest. Amid gunfire, U.S. troops try to bring governance to Kandahar 2010-07-09T13:21:00Z The wood of Belleau into which the marines penetrated with such ardor proved a hornets' nest. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. He danced upon the cab floor as though it were a hornets' nest. The Night Operator The hornets' nest is football-shaped About the rose-bush curled, But I would never raise my foot To kick it for the world. Harper's Round Table, July 23, 1895 An account like this arouses a perfect hornets' nest of question-marks. The American Country Girl But now your piety, O Empress, and Belisarius's hero-sword, have stirred up the hornets' nest so long, that at last the whole swarm flies dangerously into our faces. A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 However, the chief offenders for the time were flogged and kept in bounds, but the victorious party had brought a nice hornets' nest about their ears. Tom Brown's School Day's Sam Brady had stirred up a hornets' nest. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters Fancy Noah occupied in a wild-goose chase, or selecting specimens from a wasps' or hornets' nest, or giving assiduous chase to a vigilant and elusive bluebottle fly! Bible Romances First Series The May meeting of the Assembly was uneventful until the news of the Boston Port Acts stirred up a hornets' nest in the House of Burgesses. The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 July 11, early in the morning, an attack was made on the lines around Hagerstown, which developed a hornets' nest of sharpshooters armed with telescopic rifles, who could pick a man's ear off half-a-mile away. Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War They had but struck the hornets' nest with a stick. King Philip Makers of History Young Lieutenant Sibley and his thirty men were advancing into a hornets' nest. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters I have no desire to run into a hornets' nest. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia The great square was black with citizens, and from it rose a faint but angry drone that was unpleasantly suggestive of the results of pitching a large stone into a hornets' nest. In Brief Authority Though acknowledged as the Kaliph of the Prophet and their religious head, the Sultan, as has been said, has never dared to put his head in this independent hornets' nest. In the Tail of the Peacock At the present moment I'm just blinding along into the blue and, for all I know, an oversized hornets' nest. Jonah and Co. All lost no time in getting away from the vicinity of the hornets' nest, and presently the pests left them and went back to the hole, to see what damage had been done. The Rover Boys on the Plains The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch So far neither of us has had the good luck to locate a big hornets' nest. Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold "I am going," he said, "to destroy this hornets' nest you've raised about you." The Creators A Comedy If I copy Luther's style, I shall stir a hornets' nest. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. The adventurers were in a hornets' nest, and the hornets were always stinging. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Fred Brent took part, and thereby brought a hornets' nest about his ears. The Uncalled A Novel No stick thrown into a hornets' nest ever excited such commotion as this remark did in the camp of "Order." Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. If the patriots could not conquer the British, they at least kept them in a hornets' nest. Strange Stories from History for Young People The excitement was tremendous; we were riding slap into what looked like a hornets' nest. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 He reached the nest all right, but his diagnosis was not correct, for it proved to be a hornets' nest, beyond dispute. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Possibly, though I am puzzled to understand why he should trust himself in that hornets' nest again. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective For instance, there was the episode of the hornets' nest which poor Lub had kicked on the impulse of the moment, thinking it only a harmless "puff-ball." Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge "Wait! we can't go that way!" cried Tom, who had no desire to tumble into the hornets' nest as the others had probably done. The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall Johnson, having arrived late in the night, formed at the base of Culp's Hill, and before an hour of daylight had elapsed had stirred up a hornets' nest in their front. The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Ellenborough's theatrical bombast, like that of Napoleon at the Pyramids, recoiled upon him, bringing a hornets' nest about his own ears and leading to his recall. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert So you see, she was within her rights, in a way, and beside, I tell you I don't want to stir up a hornets' nest about it. Patty Blossom Lub looked at him painfully, but he did not think it best to ask further questions lest he stir up a hornets' nest. Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge "He may have made up his mind that he had to do some tall sprinting," said the other, "when he realized what a hornets' nest he'd stirred up back there." Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails To be sure, Benyowsky had escaped exile; but his ship was a hornets' nest. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward She was certainly astounded when, going to see her small nephew one afternoon a week or so later, she found that she had run her head into a hornets' nest. Enter Bridget "Oxford," says M. Radisson, as we picked our way home through the dark streets; "an I go to meet the king at Oxford, you will see a hornets' nest of jealousy about my ears." Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Another loosed a couple of torpedoes at the enemy ships who were attacking Gehenna, which, perhaps, accounts for the anxiety of the enemy to break away from that hornets' nest as soon as possible. Sea Warfare No," she said decisively, "you will have a perfect hornets' nest about your ears. The Quickening When the March issue of True magazine carrying Commander McLaughlin's story about how the White Sands Scientists had tracked UFO's reached the public, it stirred up a hornets' nest. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects The Republicans were now plunged into the hornets' nest. History of the United States Naturally, I wrote rather sharply to Oscar for having led me into this hornets' nest. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 "That we are in a hornets' nest," he said, with a wry smile. Montlivet He climbed on the wheel and shook out of the folds of his coat a hornets' nest that he had discovered during his temporary exile under the grand-stand. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul We may suspect, but if we raised a hand we should stir up a hornets' nest, as indeed Mr. Drake appears to be doing. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India No. The King will not wake up a hornets' nest in the South till he has smoked out the bees in the North. Puck of Pook's Hill How is it you've thrust yourself into such a hornets' nest? The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts That is a hornets' nest, and if I struck it they would fly out, and sting me. Uncle Wiggily's Adventures A sudden inspiring thought suggested that perhaps she had struck a hornets' nest. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Uncle Jim, we found a big hornets' nest yesterday on the log cabin. Westways Weeds were growing between the rotting boards and in one corner a hornets' nest as big as their heads hung from a sagging rafter. Left Tackle Thayer Now, if we are not careful we have a hornets' nest on us in good truth. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex The impression here seems to be that he is a restless, intriguing and mischief-making old man, who may consider himself as having come out of the hornets' nest he tried to stir up uncommonly well. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 But for him the country itself must have burned out the hornets' nest, and the tax-payer paid, and paid dearly. The Philanderers If they were bad marksmen, however, they were mighty runners; for they soon found that they had attacked a hornets' nest. Tales of Old Japan Get the kind, Jim, who don't balk at bullets when they have to face 'em, for we've a hornets' nest over yonder. The Young Engineers in Nevada Or, Seeking Fortune on the Turn of a Pick Starr did not wait to hear any more, but edged hastily back to the pole and began to climb down as though a disturbed hornets' nest hung above him. Starr, of the Desert The train seemed a veritable hornets' nest into which a rock had been heaved. The Flying Legion Neither side was interested in stirring up the hornets' nest. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form Two of the boys, in search of employment, broke up a hornets' nest. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 "I don't believe there is any hornets' nest here," replied Hannah. 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 "Got you into a kind of hornets' nest, eh?" he observed. The Pawns Count The friendly city would have proved a hornets' nest, had not Marius bent all his efforts to thrusting a passage through Jugurtha's men and getting clear of the dangerous walls. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate "He's stirred up the hornets' nest," whispered Helen. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day I had often heard of "stirring up a hornets' nest," but I had never before seen a practical demonstration of its danger. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 All the forces of nature and emotion seemed to be drawing him away from peaceful England towards a hornets' nest, and he—his father—would be powerless to prevent it. Three Weeks See what a hornets' nest you have escaped from. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day He has raised a hornets' nest about him. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 There appears to be no eagerness on the part of any one of us to stick his hands into the northern hornets' nest, or to admit any responsibility for it. The Lost Naval Papers My coachman deposited me at the corner of Saint Eustache, and said to me, "Here you are in the hornets' nest." The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness Then every negro whacked a white man with a hornets' nest and the audience fairly went wild with excitement. Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus It must have struck a veritable hornets' nest of submarines, as by skillful maneuvering it avoided three of these before it was finally hit. America's War for Humanity "But I say, young man, you seem to have raised a pretty good hornets' nest about your ears along this corridor." The Triple Alliance Its trials and triumphs I stuck my nose into a regular hornets' nest and soon found myself in a most dangerous position. The Secrets of the German War Office I was soon far beyond danger, and going at racing speed through the night; but I had scared up a pleasant hornets' nest. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker Frank drew his fishing-pole around and upward, until its willowy end rested against the straw-like strands by which the hornets' nest was attached to the limb. The Boys of Bellwood School Now what he saw was really a hornets' nest, full of great big brown and yellow hornets. Tales of the Punjab After surveying us for a moment, he disappeared within to reappear shortly afterwards, followed by a stream of others rushing hither and thither; just as if he had disturbed a hornets' nest. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 "Well," he said, observing no formalities of greeting, "you've chucked a brick into the hornets' nest." Youth Challenges "I've evidently kicked up a hornets' nest," he smiled weakly to himself, too tired and ill to care whether the hornets stung or not. The Shagganappi Right over his head among the branches Frank noticed a double hornets' nest. The Boys of Bellwood School By the time it arrived at its target the other four Flying Fortresses had already passed over, had dropped their bombs, and had stirred up the hornets' nest of Japanese "Zero" planes. The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt This announcement was anything but welcome, and I began to suspect I had fallen into another hornets' nest. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley On the opposite side is another nest quite different,—a great, gray hornets' nest, as big as a band-box, which came from the mountains a year ago. What Katy Did at School He lured the west into a fatal hornets' nest, an unmanageable capsule of centuries-old conflicts, a terrorists' lair, replete with drug deals, gun smuggling and organized crime. After the Rain : how the West lost the East He slammed its end and the hornets' nest right down on the head of the tramp. The Boys of Bellwood School They had sense enough to see that if faced rightly it would do only good to the children, but if made a burden to groan over it would make their home a "hornets' nest." Nerves and Common Sense June, who by nature never saw a hornets' nest until she had put her head into it, was seriously alarmed. To Let At eleven o'clock, riding through a valley on a trail six inches wide, Bill's horse stepped on a hornets' nest. Tish Yes, I know it's an ant-hill, and I shouldn't care if it were a hornets' nest—I deserve to be stung. A Summer in a Canyon "Come, Sir George, had you wed my Lady Temperance in such fashion, and found this hornets' nest about your ears, what would you have done?" To Have and to Hold To telephone to 700 Stanning for assistance would bring a hornets' nest about his ears; yet he might only see the dancer if he went alone. Okewood of the Secret Service "We may strike a hornets' nest," I explained to Hibbard, whose feet seemed very heavy even for a man of his size. The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair Let us look,' said the lama, and he led from the white road across the fields; walking into a very hornets' nest of pariah dogs. Kim Now, indeed, have I stirred up a hornets' nest. Tarzan the Terrible If we are to pacify this hornets' nest, it's high time we set about it. To Have and to Hold No sooner had Metak so unwarily opened the door to this hornets' nest than he immediately withdrew and, turning, fled again in a new direction. Tarzan the Untamed I saw, by his quick look, that I had stirred up a hornets' nest. The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair |
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