| 单词 | bee |
| 例句 | I always liked bees and honey and it made me feel better to think of bees than being some old dead mummy with a dried-up walnut brain. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them the bees bummed in the leaves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He had done nothing much for forty years but tend his bees. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z And of course bees and butterflies were there every day, happily floating through the flowers. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But as Buksa and the other Jur-chol men were removing the hive from the tree, the bees woke up and were not at all happy to discover that their home was being taken away. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z All of this was heady news of a world far removed from hankies and thimbles, patiently delivered to me under a tree amidst the drowsing bees and nodding wildflowers. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Good thing I know how to handle bees. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He moved like a person with a genuine love of bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Walk? Dogs go for walks. Cats, may bee. But never birds.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Cat and Kittens surrounded him, buried him, and their thick and rumbling purrs reminded him of the hum of the bees, and the taste of honey. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Still among the bees, they reached a stinking ditch of slurry which they crossed by a wobbling plank. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If I moved in to organize them they would resent it, perhaps become frightened, perhaps swarm out into my ventricles like bees. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “When a bee flies, a soul will rise,” he said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z How did Noah know that the cobra wouldn't bite, the bull wouldn't charge, the bee wouldn't sting? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Then I heard a drone in my ear, and looked up to see a bee circle my head and fly away. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Ms. Keen decided it would be cute to review birds and bees in honor of Valentine’s Day. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The bee jar sat on the bedside table, empty now. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "Maybe the murderer injected bee venom in his veins." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z All through “The Star Spangled Banner,” Larisa watched the bee crawling over my flowers. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The bees were everywhere, hovering over the hydrangea and the myrtle spread across the lawn, the jasmine at the wood’s edge, the lemon balm clustered at the fence. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a bee whizzed past Enoch’s nose and buried its stinger in the haunches of the woman sitting astride him, and she squealed and leapt up. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Maybe if we built a little fire by one door we could smoke ’em out the other, like bees,” he said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The last time I won anything, it was a spelling bee in second grade. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Lefty used to stop there with Milton to buy cantaloupes, teaching Milton how to pick a sweet one by looking for tiny punctures left by bees. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee’s temper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine trying to fight a swarm of bees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Then while Miss Love was slapping at him under her veil, the bee fell down the front of her dress! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I hadn’t been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called “bee yard etiquette.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z From eleven to twelve he planned to stand still and watch flies on the boards, watch bees in the clover, and watch swallows in the air. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z They noticed that the bees in each hive buzzed busily as Wiglaf wriggled past them. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z They all went to work smacking the bees that had gotten in. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The bell-shaped yellow fruits hung lazily, drawing buzzing bees that bumped against my window’s netting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Gus and Bertha had a whole passel of cats, sleeping under the porch, sunning on the windowsills, swatting bees out in the garden. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Joey’s arm jerked up, and the bee took off. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re like bees on a particularly sweet flower, stubborn and focused. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The moon was a wisp in the sky and the bees were sleepy and hushed, the hives wrapped in their own sheets of shadow. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z When I walked behind August in my bee veil, I felt like a moon floating behind a night cloud. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It stings like a bee, no?” she says. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The Back Row sleeps until she points out that apple trees need bees to reproduce. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Are you talking about”—I swallowed—“the man in the woods? The man with the bees? He's over there.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Every evening after supper we sat in their tiny den around the television set with the ceramic bee planter on top. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "When a queen bee dies, there is always another queen in the hive ready to take her place," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I mused, “I guess we should have brought some bees over in our pockets too.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The pastures, fields, and scrubby groves they crossed were vigorous with bees, and crickets leapt before them as if each step released a spring and flung them up like pebbles. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He kills thousands of harmless insects as well, including some that actually do good, such as bees that pollinate the flowers and give us honey. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Frogs, bees, snakes, and even bears would soon disappear and spend the next few months resting out of sight. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Which is how I got the bright idea of catching a jar of these bees, presenting them to T. Ray, and saying, “Now who’s making things up?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Field bees were the ones with good navigation skills and tireless hearts, going out to gather nectar and pollen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Lilac flows through the open windows with a few lazy bees. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z They also raised cattle, goats, ducks, turkeys, terriers, bees, and English bulldogs. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He placed them in a pot of water to keep the bees from finding them again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A bee lifted off a flower in slow motion, like an airplane rising. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In that moment, Genie had a quick flash of the honey badger who got stung to death by bees because he wanted the honey so bad. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I doubted she would’ve approved of keeping bees in a jar. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But Rhoecus met some companions and forgot all about the bee, so much so that when he heard one buzzing he drove it away and hurt it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in my room on the peach farm, when the bees had first come out at night, I had imagined they were sent as a special plague for T. Ray. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside was the hive where the stingless bees stored their honey. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Melancholy held me hostage and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dark and hot, and the alien whine of a million manic bees reverberated through the room like something out of a nightmare. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z How do they know what parts to play, those little bees? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A bee, or perhaps two or three, hit a child or perhaps two or three. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Each word was a garbled hiss in multiple tones, as if a swarm of African killer bees had learned to speak English in unison. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “It’s all right. A bee won’t hurt you unless you bother him.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z No, she really teaches us about the birds and the bees. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z So Ess settled down and came to watch as Jinny pulled a frame from the hive, ignoring the bees that crawled and buzzed and settled on her skin, tickling. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Just be ready when I get there, bee I can’t leave E Motions unattended! Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was a bee in a stone honeycomb, and someone had tom off his wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And everybody ran everywhere, yelling and screaming as the bees continued their attack, and the grackles—joined by other birds—kept trying to herd them. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In a short time he filled not only his own house but all of those in the village with troupials, canaries, bee eaters, and redbreasts. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He stopped the honey wagon beside a cluster of twenty hives tucked in a thicket of trees, where the bees could have shade in the summer and shelter from the wind through the winter. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Karl von Frisch, a German, was fascinated by honey bees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “And if you hadn’t accidentally stumbled across a field packed with bees?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And if Hugh had been dumb enough to follow us—if the bee flying up and down our line meant he was nearby-—then they’d kill him, too. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A community that had come together, from seeding to harvest to the bee. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Looking back on it now, I want to say the bees were sent to me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Desis kill at the spelling bee. And my dad was right: When I’m scared, I always feel like I can fight a little harder.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z They would have welcomed her bees for free, but August paid every one of them with five gallons of honey. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were listening to bee air-conditioning,” August said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then all the little bees in their bright yellow jackets came swarming out with their red-hot stings, and they hurt Charley so that he couldn’t get away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Petey, on the other hand, took delicate nibbles, like a bee sipping at a flower. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A worker bee is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with a load heavier than herself. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The day of the dinner, though, he got stung by a bee. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It became known as “the bee incident”—my battle of the buzz that went viral in a matter of hours. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But they’d camped there at the spring; and the bee myrtle had been blooming white that day, and seemed like in every bush there was a mockingbird, singing his fool head off. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z A get your hand out my face bee. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Without thinking, Jinny dropped to her knees and began to beat at the boys with her bare hands, brushing and slapping the bees away as best she could, flinching at the stings on her hands. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Beowulf lived quietly, doing country things—he took to the keeping of bees, and most days would see him tending his tawny hives in the sun. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “Before bees swarm, they stuff themselves with honey, so they’re usually too full to sting,” she said. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z There was the suspense I felt when I heard the taut, sharp song of a yellow-black bee hovering nervously but patiently above a white rose. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A bee hummed by me in search of scent, bumbling, noisy, and then creeping inside a flower was suddenly silent. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And when it did my brain tingled as if it were a honeycomb full of bees. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the orchard the bees sounded like a wind getting up, a sound caught by a spell just under crescendo and sustained. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z We thaw, begin to laugh a little, as we relate mishaps with bees and wild dogs and skunks. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Throwing back and forth, and the sound of cicadas and bees and high-up birds and the leather smell of our gloves and the ball smacking into them. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In this exceedingly slippery situation, citizens who suffered direct financial loss from damage to apple orchards or bees discovered that there was no one to sue. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But the bees remained there, like planes on a runway not knowing they’d been cleared for takeoff. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The fifth time he drove the peewee it flew humming like a bee far out in the field. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was trying to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “When the weather turns hot and the flowers dry up, the bees start sucking elderberry. It makes a purple honey. People will pay two dollars a jar for purple honey.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Our first stop is at a store with another wooden sign: three eggs, a bee, a cow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A you don't even know what a turnip is bee. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z I finally came across her, holed up in a dense thicket of bee myrtle close to a little seep spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The bees flew through me and told me to grab Campbell’s sword and run it through Lockton’s belly. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why you want to go on and say that to me for, bee? You got somethin’ against my skin preference?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Next month after the shucking bee, the farm would host the most important gathering yet, to address the recent debates about picking up stakes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But Leah and I have not thought of her in that way since the second grade, when we passed her up in the school spelling bee. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And the eleven-year-old boy who won first prize playing a tricky violin song that sounded like a busy bee. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A few bees flew out of my head as I walked north with my buckets, blown out by the strong cast wind. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The metal bugs swarmed like bees at a picnic. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The bees were thirsty and decided to defend the same fountain. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Experiments have shown that the bees obtain it directly from the body of the queen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The bee looks like it ate too much of Sneaky’s candy. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z That night I looked at the jar of bees on my dresser. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not you—my bees! They can only sting once, and then it’s lights out, the big hive in the sky. And now I’ve only Henry left, and he can’t fly ’cause he’s missing a wing.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Before dark, the Austrians serve pork kidneys with whole tomatoes on hotel china, a single silver bee etched on the rim of every plate. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At this point, the audience’s response changed to: “Oh! Oh! The bees sting! Oh, my mother!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The farmers loved her bees, thanks to all the pollinating they did, how they made the watermelons redder and the cucumbers bigger. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I loved the idea of bees having a secret life, just like the one I was living. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean, you try to see like a bee,” Finn said. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A moment later, the bee flew out of my flowers again, and I carefully retrieved the bouquet. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Could Frank actually turn into a swarm of bees? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was full of bees; already we could hear them. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “They must have all kinds of treasures up here, huh? This is the bee’s knees. Say!” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I saw a lizard run over the crag; I saw a bee busy among the sweet bilberries. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Vetch furnishes essential spring forage for bees before the alfalfa is in bloom, tiding them over this early season so that they are ready to pollinate the alfalfa. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The shady gardens were like a town, swarming with bees. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The result, as might have been predicted, was that the honey made by the bees also was contaminated with schradan. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It means a person’s soul will be reborn into the next life if bees are around.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The bees had taken up residence in an old termite nest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat down to a feast of the ham, huge plates of fried potatoes, ham gravy, hot com bread, fresh butter, and wild bee honey. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z From a nearby crab apple tree, a small ball of confused bees hung like a ragged skein of yarn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z You had to make sure they were new combs with no brood eggs in them, since nobody wanted to have baby bee larvae in their honey. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They are too small and too full of bees for in-person tours to be truly convenient. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In the elementary school spelling bee when you intentionally misspelled heifer, he almost had a cow. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It stung like the bees, like a burn, full of prickles. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There was a group called mortician bees whose pitiful job it was to rake the dead bees out of the hive and keep everything on the clean side. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I slid from the covers and dashed through the bees for the door. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We waited more than a year, and then, on what would have been Joseph’s sixteenth birthday, when the apple trees were blooming and the bees doing their dances, Mrs. Stroud drove into our yard. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z She nodded at the bee ball hanging from the tree branch. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A few people have complained about the bees. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Dallas was still swatting at the air, waving away bees that had long since vanished. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Desert mallow spread out peach-colored blooms in pockets of soil, and everywhere late- blooming cliff roses swarmed with bees. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Whilst he was talking, it would’ve been real simple to hear the bees and fall ’sleep but I ’membered something Pap had said once. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I poked at the logs in the kitchen hearth, trying to summon back the bees so they would chase out the thoughts invading my brainpan. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z We are as interdependent, especially in our cities, as bees or ants, yet we can detach if we wish and go live alone in the woods, in theory anyway. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She passed an enormous fallen log that swarmed with bees, but she didn’t dare try to get the honey. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They talked about the bees, and how to harvest the honey, and which Batman movie was the best one. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I would fain at the moment have become bee or lizard, that I might have found fitting nutriment, permanent shelter here. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She screamed, swatting at her hair like bees swarmed her. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “Nobody’s meant to go off alone, away from her family. Families stay together. This bee needs her family too.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Well, I don't know about the boyfriend. She had a brother. He was a first-rate nutcase, actually. He was into spelling bees. Went to Nationals, I think.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z It was as if he had been swallowed up and disappeared, like bees on honey. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She held both palms up to face the sky, one gloved, one sleeved in bees, like a shaman performing some ancient ritual. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Glowing, misshapen swarms ripple below like a wave of bees across the turquoise lake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The air of the place carried no flies, no butterflies, no bees, no insects of any kind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A bee flies from one blossom to another, burying half its body in the petals, emerging coated with pollen, intent on its task. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Far from it. Madam paid a call on the reverend’s wife after supper. Came home with high color in her cheeks and a bee in her bonnet. ‘Dress the child,’ she says. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He roared in pain each time one found its mark, but they affected him like bee stings. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Finn couldn’t imagine how many bees there were. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The canyon was the way he always remembered it; the bee- weed plants made the air smell heavy and sweet like wild honey, and the bumblebees were buzzing around waxy yucca flowers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The bees were a colony of fairies, fluttering busily around their queen. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He liked the days he could spend with his bees, and the summer svm, and the way night came gentle from the dusky sea. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared at the bee and shook her head. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He had heard that many are Africanized bees, and when smoke from the locomotive angers them, they swarm and attack migrants on top of the cars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The bees began to light on my shoulders the ways birds sit on telephone wires. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The bee man didn't have a beekeeper's mask, though bees coated his smock and face. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Hugh’s insects swarmed and stung people until they were banished from the house, after which Hugh spent all his time at the window, his bees screening the other side of the glass. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Hundreds of bees, stinging it from the inside! Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought that perhaps I had come upon the forest equivalent of a queen bee, and I wondered whether this algae would ever cease to amaze me with its botanical strangeness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A fire had been started under the tree, to smoke the bees out of the hive and make them sleepy. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Honeybees and wild bees depend heavily on such “weeds” as goldenrod, mustard, and dandelions for pollen that serves as the food of their young. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Do you think I could keep bees one day?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z From it hordes of golden bees could be flung out with a high shriek. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z That old quiet moss smell would linger in the air, and bees would come, and crickets, and herons build their nests in the deep dark woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When they finally turned and saw all of us looking, Fiona blushed, and Hugh came toward us with his hands jammed in his pockets, his bees trailing behind him, and growled, “Let’s go, show’s over.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z His hand closed over my arm, and it was like a bee had been set loose inside of my skull. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z So I jumped up kind of suddenly, like a bee had landed on me, and followed Veronica as she zoomed away. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Outside, butterflies and bees were hovering lazily over the grass and hedgerow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We scrunched up our noses at the smells of bloody fresh meat and musty dried fish, and lowered our heads from the bees that buzzed in thick clouds over the sheds of the honey sellers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They were big bees, too, armed with the kind of venom that could kill, if one was unfortunate enough to be attacked by the whole swarm. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z When she embroidered a flower, bees would try to nestle in it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z One morning I slapped an enormous bee between my hands just as it had lit upon a flower and it stung me in the tender center of my left palm. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the words on page 41 of Lord of the Flies swarmed off the page and buried my face in bees. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly frantic, I held the flowers as far away from me as I could and began shaking the bouquet, hoping to dislodge the bee. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z People clung to buses like swarms of bees on a branch. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z A huge mass of bees dangled like a living piñata from the weathered chat ’n’ chew diner sign. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Something that looked like a giant black bee whooshed by them and careened around the curve ahead. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It flowered almost year-round and as far as I could tell, most of the local bee population seemed to live there. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z You cannot take your time in a spelling bee. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z All about them was a lazy humming of bees, broken by the sharp clatter of a locust. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z A buzzing like that of a gigantic bee sounded. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Rusties didn’t put their factories underground, and they all worked together like bees in a hive instead of at home. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We sang it around and around in our warbling voices somewhere between youth and where they would settle, like bees around a single flower. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “I’m catching bees to show T. Ray. He thinks I’m making them up.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For his own part, Milton was unable to discuss the birds and the bees with his young daughter, and so I was left, in those years, to figure things out for myself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She saved me with never asking questions, with instead reading to me about bees and botany and evolution. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “As I was saying to the king just the other day——” “You’ve never met the king,” accused the bee angrily. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I first met her when she and I had entered the Gaston spelling bee in the seventh grade. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Not to the bees. Bees see the white as blue. Bees like blue best.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Ants and bees can also work together in huge numbers, but they do so in a very rigid manner and only with close relatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It only made a body restless and fill up with bees all wanting to sting something. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z We suddenly had thirty ravens, and they set out immediately to rearrange our situation so it would be their situation, much as the birds and bees had done in the highway rest areas. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The people coming out of the station move like a swarm of bees and bump against us as they climb the stairs. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Better start yellin’ then, before they run out of cakes, bee.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The ratatatatmg of the drumsticks rattled through me, setting my teeth to shaking and waking the bees who had lately gone to sleep in my brainpan. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Long enough to mix it up with the shucking bee. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And the bees had a right to sting him, when he jumped on their home. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat along my arms, speckled the bee veil so I could scarcely see through it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Last summer he left a lone bee in a jar on the kitchen counter for my mother. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As the coffin was loaded into the hearse, bee hum swelled and blended into the late-afternoon colors. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrote words on the board: gaggle of geese, bee swarm, whale pod, wolf pack, and murder of crows. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I was drifting above my body, floating there like a bee above a flower. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Already she had read about bees and buffaloes, Bermuda vacations and Byzantine architecture. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The bees poured down the monster's throat like a stream of honey, in pursuit of their queen. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear,” the bee repeated, continuing to pace nervously. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z When it was all over, the cloud of bees began to spread and scatter, unveiling the bodies of Mr. White and his men. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I just wanna know how long that’s been going on, and do we need to have a refresher course on the birds and the bees?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “An excellent device, worthy of a playwright” His praise was like honey to a bee, and I sucked it up. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It joined a group of bees, whose wings beat together like a million heartbeats. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “S'pose,” I asked, remembering a horror film about bees, “they swarm?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I was sure it was the man from Goose Creek with the new queen bee. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Jinny stood, bees buzzing industriously around her head, honeycomb in hand, frozen, and watching. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Adam fluttered like a bewildered bee confused by too many flowers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “When you broke the window,” I said to Bekhir, “how did you know the bees wouldn’t attack us?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It happened in swirls and sparkles with fuzzy bees and fairies making glitter trails. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “If Vera needs family there to support her, then I’m sorry, bee, but you just have to accept that she can’t say it—” “She's been with this guy for years!” he loudly hissed at me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Weren’t you scared? I heard people can die from bee stings.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At once the needle began to swing round, back, round and on further, like a bee dancing its message to the hive. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Pudgy grim smoking women played bingo in a closed-off bit where a spangle-jacketed man calls out numbers and smiles like a bee. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z On the third night after hearing the broadcast—Thursday—Werner stands in the hexagonal bathtub beneath the queen bee. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Jinny stared down at the bees covering the honeycomb in her hands, and she felt panic well up inside her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Every one of those bees could have descended on me like a flock of angels and stung me till I died, and it wouldn’t have been the worst thing to happen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe it wasn’t too crowded. Maybe something disturbed the bees,” Petey said, in a softer voice this time. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Just before World War I, Harlow Shapley of Missouri devised a technique for measuring the distances to the globular clusters, those lovely spherical arrays of stars which resemble a swarm of bees. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The outsiders, of course, thought that Remedios the Beauty had finally succumbed to her irrevocable fate of a queen bee and that her family was trying to save her honor with that tale of levitation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The twins go wild, blowing into their vuvuzelas until the whole yard sounds like it’s filled with bees. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z That night, in my bed, when I closed my eyes, bee hum ran through my body. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In a matter of seconds, the bees flew off, but they left behind two boys covered in stings, angry red welts rising on their faces and arms. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Let’s imagine for a moment that we are tiny enough to follow a bee into a hive. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Jinny fell back to see what Ess was talking about, and she found the girl with a bee cupped in her hand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They scowled at the revelers as if to say, All of you are drones, and when winter comes, the worker bees will throw you into the snow to die. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a keeper of bees, the son of Apollo and a water nymph, Cyrene. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s applied indiscriminately to professional athletes, lottery winners, and kids who clean up at spelling bees. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And all of a sudden, it wasn’t about a bee sting anymore. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Dancing by the DJ booth, a stray bee made its way from the trash can to the back of my ear. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Leah,” he said, “you can’t bring the bees.You might as well bring the whole world over here with you, and there’s not room for it.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Richard remembered how dejected it had looked when Kainene bought it—half-finished with layers of green mold on the unpainted walls—how the flies and bees clustered over the fallen cashews had nauseated him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She and her family had extensive land down there, with a lot of bees. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z About a block away from the peak of the hill, a hum like a massive swarm of bees rose above the distant sounds of traffic. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Each bee also gets a tiny T-shirt with our logo.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z We’d get a plate every Sunday after church, and I always looked forward to the passion fruit juice, so sweet bees would fly all around me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z August showed us how to drape a square over each hive box, securing it with a brick and making sure we left the bees’ entrance door open. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Red sprinted toward the river slapping at the first wave of bees that stung his arms and face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like when a bee stung Sounder under the porch or a brier caught his ear in the bramble, the boy thought. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The unfurling of an embryo; the reach of a plant toward sunlight; the ritual dance of bees—every biological activity required the decoding of coded instructions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When we got to the part about the bees, my eyes ached from holding back tears. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “And don’t forget about my bees!” said Hugh, opening his mouth to let them out. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z As a boy, he had been fond of playing with bees—Beowulf means "the bee- hunter"—and one day an angry swarm had attacked his face, stinging his cheeks and eyelids rather badly. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the sound like a great matted yellow hive of bees within a dark bellows, the lazy bumble of a purring lion. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The bees swarmed again behind my eyes, making the scene grow dim and distant. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think my brain is filled with bees,” I replied. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His left eye had a big black bruise that slashed down toward his cheek, and his upper lip puffed out like he’d been stung by a bee. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Kazilly, who looks like some kind of bee in his yellow-and-black vest today, is practically buzzing with excitement when I walk into his class after lunch. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The bees had shaken the pollen dust off their feet and were starting to settle back into the hive. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are there bees in the Otherworld?” asked the girl. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They swarm around my framed art, hovering at the wall like bees, making bids for the silent auction and walking away, then coming back again to see if anyone else has made a bid. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The humming crowd began to sound like tired bees, restless and anxious to get home. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He could smell wild flowers growing in the weeds and grass beside the road, and he heard the big bumblebees and the smaller bees sucking the blossoms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z That summer was the summer when all of the bees came out of the walls of those suburbs and went crazy, and people couldn’t figure it out at all. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s the big deal? I bet those bees probably don’t even have stingers.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A slight breeze offered some relief from the insidious and torturous swarms of biting flies, stinging bees, and disease-spreading mosquitoes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z They shuffled silently and slowly back to the road, past the indifferent bees. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “You do know about the birds and the bees, don’t you?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as we were about to, Hugh burst through a thicket of bushes into our makeshift camp, bees circling his head in an agitated cloud. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The thought washed over me like a river, sweeping away the dead bees that had filled my brainpan with confusion. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z With my eyes closed, I slowly raised my arms, weaving them through the bees, until finally I stood with them stretched out from my sides in a dreamy place I’d never been before. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she grabbed a white box from the wagon bed and placed it on the curb, a couple of feet beyond the piñata of bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Next to him an eating lady in a green and purple Kanjeevaram sari and diamonds clustered like shining bees on each nostril offered him yellow laddoos in a box. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Poppy said, “I think she’s reciting the bees passage from the Koran.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “It’s something my dad told me once, when I was in the district spelling bee. He said that my fear made me more alert. That I could channel my fear into focus.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z After my morning of capturing bees, I spent the afternoon in the peach stand out on the highway, selling T. Ray’s peaches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stand guard,” I tell Jaimito, who is staring at a bee and sucking on his thumb. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Drifting arsenic dusts from blueberry lands have spread over neighboring farms, contaminating streams, fatally poisoning bees and cows, and causing human illness. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Hugh paced the length of the cage, an agitated bee circling his head. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She looked around the clearing then and found that she was surrounded by all manner of forest creatures—owls and foxes, dormice and squirrels, bees and deer and rabbits. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Miss Effie Belle had a grim face any time, punctuated by a big pink wart that stuck out from the side of her upper lip like the feeler of a bee. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The room sat in perfect stillness, not one bee anywhere. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. She liked the bees. And we would talk. I made her s’mores with extra chocolate. She liked chocolate. But she liked honey more. She would drink it right out of the jar.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I just dived back into the riptide of saving bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Above him, in the dimness, a nine-foot-long queen bee, with multiple eyes and golden fuzz on her abdomen, curls across the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Most of the boys in my homeroom are bunched together like bees swarming an open jar of grape jelly. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z But really, I’m sure it was because she loved throwing a little end-of-the-year party for her bees, seeing them descend on the supers like they’d discovered honey heaven. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s right! The good bees sting the evil drones to death. But we don’t want to go quite that far,” said Jorge. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The loudly buzzing syrphid fly, often mistaken for a bee, lays its eggs on leaves of aphis-infested plants; the hatching larvae then consume immense numbers of aphids. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She sweetened it with wild honey that Papa and I had cut out of a bee tree last fall, and added cream skimmed off last night’s milk. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I immediately started screaming to scare off the bees. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z And as Jinny felt the hot bite of a single annoyed bee sting her hand, she had a flash, a vision of what would happen when clumsy Ess hit the hives. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Thoughts buzzed inside my head like bees disturbed in their hive. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And while the loud bee hummed in the coil box Adam cranked the Ford and ran to advance the spark and throw the switch to Mag. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Finn squinted at the exposed comb, a few bees buzzing and crawling on it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The bees in my head fell silent and hugged their wings tight to their bodies. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Next came the bees themselves: just a few at first, drifting through his parted lips. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Without bees, there’s no food, without food, no humans. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She wondered idly if these bees were the same bees that had made honey for Abbie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It was like a giant hive of bees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her Majesty, the Austrians call their cannon, and for the past week these men have tended to it the way worker bees might tend to a queen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The sound swelled in the dark till the entire room was pulsating, till the air itself became alive and matted with bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We were just cruising around when a bee started flying near us. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z My heart was beating triple time, but then I waved at her involuntarily, like I was brushing away a bee. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z There is a chorus of bees in my stomach as I listen to Bo whistling in the kitchen. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A person could get stung half to death in a roomful of bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you going to the husking bee tonight?” she inquired mischievously. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z A bee droned above Giles’s head, and he flicked at it with his hat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She reminded me that the world was really one big bee yard, and the same rules worked fine in both places: Don’t be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Had to be the easiest word ever in a seventh-grade spelling bee. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I got down under the bed and begged the very dust and coils of my bedsprings to produce a bee. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z August and Zach had already extracted most of the honey from her bee yards, but there were still several stacks of supers on pallets sitting around. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We step around where the bees come to drink. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “Yes. Like a hive of bees in your dresser drawer.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z So I told her everything, from finding Aunt Florentine’s head resting on the mound of marigolds, to the bees buzzing around her and Tidings running for the hearse. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Still, I couldn’t let the matter go entirely—T. Ray thinking I was so desperate I would invent an invasion of bees to get attention. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But then Nat explained, in her calm voice, about how the bees didn’t want to sting. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She was in the spelling bee, she was in the Academic Olympics, she was the salutatorian of her class. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I do know that the industrious bees do the most of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She meant it, but she also felt angry and hollow inside, with this hot buzzing like bees. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He’d sent one of his bees trailing after us, which allowed him to follow from a careful distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The bees came the summer of 1964, the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off into a whole new orbit, and I mean whole new orbit. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fields, late in the day, afternoon merging into night, a cornhusking bee was in progress on the Brodas plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole class, like a swarm of bees, rushed over to the counter. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Her metal greyhounds sniffed around the garden, snapping at bees in the honeysuckle. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The way they knew that Priscilla Willis, the beekeeper’s homely daughter, had a sting worse than any bee. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Bullets tore through the village, making angry zipping sounds like bees. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Admittedly this is painful and one is well advised to avoid being stung, just as one ordinarily avoids the sting of wasp or bee. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She flung the frame of bees as far from her as she could, then ran forward, reaching out both arms, to catch Ess before the girl could hit the hive. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Floating and stinging, just like Muhammad Ali, except he ain't sting like no bee, more like a Mack truck, he bragged. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Boys everywhere called themselves Ali, and emulated his “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee” routines. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Hugh coughed, and bees tumbled out of his mouth to form a question mark that shivered in the air. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And as for the bees, You have to watch For them. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re mammoth filing cabinets of human lives, like bees in a honeycomb, crowded and angry at paying rent for boxes that resemble prison cells. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Most of the mansion were dressed in turquoise smocks, same as the bee man. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They had to catch their breath, so they got out of the water and ran to their village, bringing the bees with them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Golden, horrid bees that stung, poisoned, and fell lifeless, like seeds on the sand. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s right. His advice was always, don’t annoy the bees, don’t annoy the bees. It’s men like him and Jaimito and other scared Julanitos who have kept the devil in power all these years.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As a server, though, I am beset by requests as if by bees: more iced tea here, catsup over there, a to-go box for table 14, and where are the high chairs, anyway? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In practically every account of the 2014 World Championship in Nanning, there was some mention of the bee that climbed out of my bouquet of flowers as I stood on the gold medal podium. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “The wolves have mouths as red as blood. The snowflakes follow her like bees.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z So too did the tiny insects that crawled upon them: the beetles and wasps, the bees that floated from blossom to blossom. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They shook water from their shaggy fur, snarfled people’s picnic lunches, chewed Fris- bees into hunks of unusable plastic. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Bees live in there, black bees that sting terribly, but make the best honey in the world. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of the bees diminished, sustained yet, as though instead of sinking into silence, silence merely increased between us, as water rises. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Staring out into the night, he saw nothing but he knew the bees had assured his safety that night. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Laura asked him how he got the honey away from the bees. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z While she worked, the bees spun around us, gathering strength till they made soft wind on our faces. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The pruney man gazed up from the bottom of a well of brightness and buzzing that, we saw, was made of bees. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z In her mind, Ivy ran through a plan that involved running up to Drew in a panic, saying that she saw a potentially lethal bee fly into his backpack. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The bees must have been storing honey there for years. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z On our first Friday evening there, after prayers were finished and orange and pink swirls still hung in the sky from sunset, I went with August to the bee yard. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z August had us load up the empty supers and haul them out to the woods so the bees could come and do the big cleanup. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The humming of the screws overhead dropped an octave and a half, back through wasp and hornet to bumble bee, to cockchafer, to stag- beetle. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “That is a difficult one,” said the bee, winking at the letter man. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Looking at the child, I suddenly became hungry for my country, for its fat bees carrying nectar from apple flowers and for the birds singing in clusters of hazel. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was only a few days, hours perhaps, until my heart would stop beating, in truth, and the bees would fly off to haunt someone else. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “We beekeepers tag every bee. See that one?” she said, pointing. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It felt like he had been stung by a giant bee. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z When the bees started to move in clusters, walking and flying, something occurred to Finn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She pulled a small bottle of olive oil and bee pollen from her free pocket and rubbed my skin—her patented remedy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl ignored the comments and let another bee march up her arm. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I went and sat down with a book and The Times and my knitting in the rose-garden, domestic as a matron, yawning in the warm sun while the bees hummed amongst the flowers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Winnifred, the girl who beat you in the elementary school spelling bee, raises her hand: Ms. Hardwick, wasn’t Nick supposed to present a malapropism to us today? she whines. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Remember what your dad said to you about fear when you were in the spelling bee? Soheil, too? About how we should be scared, about how we can use that?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Studies on dancing bees by Karl von Frisch. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Nurse bees, August said, had a gift for nurturing, and they fed all the baby bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone who wanted to marry her had to climb over the bees’ nest. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Hugh stood at the foot of the whispering man’s bed, his last bee buzzing angrily around him. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Strange, then, that she never dreamed of Sean, but of woods and bees and honey. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A maybe not, but I know what a turn up is and your breath smell all the way turnt up bee. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Although we are by all odds the most social of all social animals—more interdependent, more attached to each other, more inseparable in our behavior than bees—we do not often feel our conjoined intelligence. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “First the bees, then the chickens flew off...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Ruth hummed so loudly it put me in mind of a swarm of bees in clover. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched her load the red wagon, the one I’d seen in the backyard, with brood frames, those little slats that slip down in the hives for the bees to deposit honey on. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he sat for a while, muttering to the bees in each hive. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Wouldn’t surprise me if actual bees lived in there. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She got back to Nsukka in the middle of the afternoon, that still hour when the sun was relentless and even the bees perched in quiet exhaustion. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The rain roared, swirling like angry black bees in the wild wind. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Now Judd’s really angry, and his words come at me like bees. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hope you don’t have a bee allergy. I only have one EpiPen. But I guess we could share? I’ll stab you, you stab me?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Well, for instance, every bee has its role to play.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right. You could pick out the queen bee. So you can see just fine. But...” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Priscilla Willis held up her finger, where a bee rested, baskets packed with yellow pollen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z About a block away from the peak of the hill, a hum like a massive swarm of bees rose above the distant sounds of traffic. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “No, but back when the Christians hid from the Romans down in the catacombs, they used to scratch pictures of bees on the walls. To remind each other that when they died they’d be resurrected.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The poison that caused the collapse of the honeybees spreads to the human population, and, just as the bees did, humanity goes slowly mad. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Avery is always fine. Of course, he gets into poison ivy and gets stung by wasps and bees and brings frogs and snakes home and breaks everything he lays his hands on. He’s fine.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z These were the children of the children of Abbie’s bees, perhaps. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Or: “Frau Elena, does a bee know it’s going to die if it stings somebody?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “That’s the sound of one hundred thousand bee wings fanning the air.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometime since this morning the bees had finally gotten around to flying off. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I raise my hand, slowly and carefully, like I’m putting my arm inside a bees’ nest. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I sat there on that porch with confusion swirling around me like a swarm of angry bees. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z You got the impression the bees were inside having a big siesta. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Like . . . one bee is a finger? Two bees are his eyes?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z August passed around a paper bag full of manna, and we scooped up handfuls and threw the seeds into the hole with the coffin, and my ears were filled with nothing but bee hum. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z During spring and summer—the most strenuous periods of foraging—a worker bee, as a rule, does not live more than four or five weeks . The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mini, for all her worries about allergies and magical bees, was brave. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z People don’t realize how smart bees are, even smarter than dolphins. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She paced on her terrace, back and forth beneath the moon, while down in the city her moths went from house to house like bees from flower to flower. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Twice I’ve seen the honey man who comes out of the forest carrying a block of honeycomb dripping with honey—sometimes bees and all!—in his bare hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I woke up with August shaking my shoulder, saying it was gonna be a scorcher, get up, we had to water the bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But Beowulf had a way with them, and the bees seemed to love him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z A bee wandered in, found nothing, and left. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was half finished, a wide gold collar formed of tiny chains strung with innumerable golden bees, each one delicately and imaginatively conceived, superbly wrought. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It was so quiet; the bees hummed and the river water played the pebbles, the rocks, and the hollows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Hobbits can work like bees when the mood and the need comes on them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The occasional bee that finds its way in is deafening. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But when two galaxies collide, the stars pass effortlessly by one another, like bullets through a swarm of bees, because a galaxy is made mostly of nothing and the spaces between the stars are vast. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Luce used to wear this bee brooch when we were kids. Do you remember that? The one she’d wear on her winter coat when she picked us up from school?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He made a smoky fire of grass and leaves to make the bees drowsy. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Petey could have been a bee or a butterfly with her tattered silver wings veined with gold, the silver mask hiding her face. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It started low, a mutter of angry bees in an underground hive. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Like how anti-itch cream erased the pain of a bee sting but didn’t repel the bee itself. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "I should know how the dog bites, how the bee stings!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “She taught me lots more about bees than just how to keep them. She used to tell me one tall bee tale after another.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain came down hard and fast, stinging his face like a million bees. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z You know one time I put the bee on him for a buck. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Volker shimmied her hips and shoulders back and forth and high-stepped up and down a little bit as if she were trying to shoo a bee out from under her dress. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was strange, all of us separated by walls, divided into compartments like bees in a dusty hive, so we kept our doors open. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z For dinner they all had as much of the delicious honey as they could eat, and Pa told them how he found the bee tree. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “This,” said the bee with complete disdain, “is the Humbug. A very dislikable fellow.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z At this moment the bees entered the picture, taking over the water and finishing the job of conquering the rest area. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z August laughed, and so did I. “Was your Big Mama the one who taught you to keep bees?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Finn and the mare stood in the circle of hives, listening to the deep hum of the bees, feeling that hum in their skin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z There’s a murmuring in the room, like the buzz of excited bees before they embark on their morning mission to the garden, but it’s quiet in Maddy and Stephanie’s station. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Her voice dip down, like bees on a comb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Just about,” replied the bee with a hint of pride in his voice. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I thought about the bees that had come to my room at night, how they’d been part of it all. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Same way I spelled my word in the spelling bee on Friday morning. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The bees zoomed among its bright and sticky leaves, higher and higher toward heaven, and a rope ladder disappeared among the foliage. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She released the bee and pulled ajar from her pocket. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “You’ll not last the day if you keep up this pace. What has got into you? Did you swallow a hive of bees?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “I didn’t think so either. I saw a swarm of bees fly overhead—oh, so many! But fortunately they didn’t land.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As usual, Sheed was drawn directly to her like a bee to a dandelion. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Those last moments had been crazy—countless bees, gunfire in the dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Flower and fruit grew together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He stuck out his tongue, set the bee upon it, and closed his mouth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The murmur among people was more purposeful, like bees in a hive. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They toiled with the steady devotion of worker bees. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Fat bees buzzed in around us, dipping to sample flowers. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He will use the word “love,” and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the river, like the bees, like everything. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The bee was on his arm, crawling up and down. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed relieved to keep the conversation on the level of bee swarms. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a movie about a spelling bee once. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “They ever bother the bees in the hives?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z How did bees ever become equated with sex? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There is the buzzing of bees and the melody of songbirds in the trees. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “More dangerous than hanging out with a bazillion bees?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Well, yes. But it’s not that. I got stung by a bee on my palm while we were playing. Your dad grabbed my hand and sucked the venom out.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing to be heard except the gentle wind, the heather bees, the skylarks very high, and a few distant snuffles from Meg. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was jumping up and down and hundreds of bees were stinging him all over. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z How did a worker bee, returning to her hive after collecting honey, tell the other worker bees where to go? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I wished I could do like the bees, just bump her forehead with a warning, tap it with my finger. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The next I heard a sound like the buzzing of an angry bee just as something slapped me on my shoulder. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z On the corner of Sterling and Commonwealth was the old Masonic Temple, where one Saturday afternoon thirty-five years before, Milton had been runner-up in a spelling bee. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “They were hornets, not bees. That's the kind of stuff you learn in college, you know.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Hob’s line pointed down what seemed to be a succession of glades, shady and murmuring places in which the wild thyme was droning with bees. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Arsenic-contaminated environments have also caused sickness and death among horses, cows, goats, pigs, deer, fishes, and bees; despite this record arsenical sprays and dusts are widely used. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I bet your mother kept bees, too,” I said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my heart down its seam. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, when August removed the lids, the bees poured out in thick black ropes, breaking into strands, a flurry of tiny wings moving around our faces. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And I began to hear his hoarse roaring, that aaonh cry as rich as gold or honey and as spine-chilling as the depths of an unsafe mine or a thousand angry bees. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He found out that the returning bee performs a wonderful “waggle dance” that tells the others exactly where to go. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Except instead of avoiding it, I bee- lined to it and dug it up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He used to act all addlepated when he was round her, like she was honey and he was the buzzin’ bee. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Again Aristaeus did as he was bid, and on the ninth day he found a marvel, a great swarm of bees in one of the carcasses. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They hurried away before the bees woke up. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Ron, who’d watched the bee chase on TV and laughed till his sides hurt, helped Mom feel better about the whole thing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z One after another, they swarm through the door like bees in a hive, zipping left and right, knocking into freshly lit chandelier-lanterns, staining the marble with their dark sparks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I felt like the Red Cross springing to action to save the bee queendom. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I waited to die, for the bees to cover every exposed inch of me in stings that would shut down my nervous system. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z There were dizzy bees and bow-tied fruit flies turning somersaults and humming in the air. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “To think you’ve never been to a husking bee!” exclaimed Judith. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I slept in human beds, sat in human chairs, listened while human words swarmed around me like angry bees. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Though the trees are changing colors, flowers are still in bloom, and there are bees everywhere. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The bees threatened to overtake my mind again, their wings beating quickly. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not sure how she feels about bees, so I shoo it away quickly. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She was full of crazy ideas that I ignored, but I lay there thinking about this one, wondering if the bees had come with my death in mind. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The bee sting on the side of her neck.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I could hear a bee buzzing nearby, and I tugged on the straps of my backpack, hurrying up the porch steps. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Cursing and hollering, madder than a bee in a jar. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z There is an agitated moving of bees back and forth, like granules in cell sap. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hugh put a hand to his throat as if it hurt him and coughed, and a bee shot out of his mouth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He sends a counting book, about an ant and a bee. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z After a couple of minutes, a small one with wings like a bee landed on the edge of the jar, staring into it. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “You are one-third friend, one-third brother, one-third bee partner, and one-third boyfriend,” I told him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The ugly man climbed the tree, but when the bees came out to sting him, they couldn’t get through the scabs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The trail I followed led along the bank of Birdsong Creek through some bee myrtle bushes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z On the afternoon that the funeral home came to pick up May for the burial, bees buzzed around the front-window screens. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I like to pic-a-nic more than a bee likes to bumble!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “You’re a bee with an itch,” I say the minute Mom goes into the closet to change. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Hugh shouted, and a squadron of bees sent Horace yelping down the hall. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I’d learned enough beekeeping to know that a hive without a queen was a death sentence for the bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I preferred the chores that took me out of the kitchen, for it was there the bees tricked me into seeing Ruth’s ghost playing on the floor, churning butter, or counting out kernels of com. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Alyce sat down and listened to the humming of the bees and the purring of the cat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I love the color blue—the real bright blue like the hat May had on at the Daughters of Mary meeting. And since coming here, I’ve learned to love bees and honey.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the sharp smell of tar, and trains passing, and bees humming in the window boxes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z August and Zach tended to the bees and the honey, but I spent most of my time down by the river, alone. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminded me of the way the bees had flown out of my bedroom walls, stranding me at the center of a bee whirlwind. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Since my father was shorter, most of the bees concentrated on my uncles head. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Even though the big honey flow was over, the bees were still out there sucking nectar, going about their business. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The ants started a single-file parade up the side of Our Lady, drawn by the honey, and not to be outdone, a handful of scout bees showed up and landed on Our Lady’s head. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My already blistered hands and scraped knees rebelled as the dust took over me like a swarm of bees. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Let a bee sit on your arm, like Joey Peterson did?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Here a pillar of bees and this a mattress of luxury. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the terrifying buzz of nightmares, not the low buzz of sleepy bees, but the buzz of the people of Bone Gap, all of whom seemed to be gathered in Finn’s front yard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z For Schubert, the birds, the bees, the woods and the trees came into their own above all in song- writing, at which he was simply unmatched before the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They sounded like a slower version of the hum of bees, and she felt, the sounds in her skin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The video of the bee incident was everywhere the next day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z His bee bite, he noticed, was finally gone. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you come over here and hold these bees for me? Then you can tell me if they have stingers.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Beyond the open window, the garden lay in the heat of the early afternoon sun, full of bees and vivid flowers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Behind me some blackberry bushes gave off a sweet smell, and there were bees humming in the blossoms. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I could not hear myself think for all the bee hum. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know a worker bee could lay eggs,” I said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After May’s burial August shut down honey making, honey selling, even bee patrol. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Jake moved to stand over Miss Riley with a folded newspaper, but the angry bees had too many targets and gave up in confusion, retreating back up the mountain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A bee buzzed in front of my face. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a few scratches but had avoided any bee stings. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z But as they neared the Great Hall and the sounds of a waltz could be heard, a swarm of bees took flight in her stomach. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But when she slept, she dreamed of bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z They killed the bees that were stinging him and they shook the bees out of his clothes and then they dressed him again and sent him to the house. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The air rained bees, and I sent them love, just like August said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran one way and then the other, but the bee was still with me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Her veil and linen duster were on the floor beside the bee, which she had stomped to death, and Miss Love was buttoning her shirtwaist. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Now imagine that world has people like us in it, but no bees. They’d have the experience of sweetness and of light, but how would they symbolize them?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Maybe: they secrete chemicals the way insects do, or perhaps the movements of their eyestalks is a form of language similar to the dance of a bee. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z August said, “Hot weather makes the bees out of sorts, I don’t care how much love you send them.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A fat bee crawled across the top of the dresser, and adroitly Biff caught it in his hand and put it out the open window. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He was not on horseback, he had not expected trouble, in the middle of a husking bee, an occasion for frolicking and fun. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “You getting upset like that around the littles. You scared them much worse than the bees did.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She opened the hives and peered in, to find happily buzzing bees, busy at their constant work. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z And Western Biological sells bugs and snails and spiders, and rattlesnakes, and rats, and honey bees and gila monsters. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The bee sting was still swollen, so he could not properly appreciate how beautiful his sister looked with her hair out of its bun, though Helen told him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But she wasn’t sure so I started hoping they did right away because there was something more inside my mind buzzing around besides bees. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z August said we couldn’t leave them on too long, since the bees had memorized everything about their hive and a change like that could make them disoriented. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And if he happened to get stung by a couple of hundred bees, well, I was sorry. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The third bullet was for the filthy flamingo, who stopped dead center in the road when the lethal bee buzzed past his ear. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Except these weren’t killer bees, but a swarm of school kids of all sizes and grades in brown and gold uniforms. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z It was a perfect spring day, and the air was alive with birdsong and bee hum. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The bee landed on the state map I kept tacked on the wall. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course you do, shank. You need me to explain the birds and bees?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “It is a very distressful thing,” he wrote, “to walk into a yard in May and not hear a bee buzz.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It took three days to get the fireplace worked out so that it didn’t smoke me out of the tree like a bee. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The bees danced from blossom to blossom and then darted away. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I looked down at the bee jar still clutched in my hand and saw a teaspoon of teardrops floating in the bottom. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The buzz of the orb lights sounded like a swarm of bees flying toward him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z They ran and dove into a river, but the bees circled on top of the water waiting for them to resurface. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z And the more days that passed and the more north we got, seemed like Ma’s idea ’bout bumbly bees and ants wasn’t as much a waste of time as I thought at first. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Some folks is whispering, murmuring to God, and a quiet power fill up the room, like bees buzzing on a comb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In an instant, the bees were on them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She would not store her supers for the winter until the bees had sucked out the last remaining bits of honey from the combs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not a wild slough, although tules, cattails and foxtails still grew, also dill, and yellow chamomile, fat and fuzzy as bees. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A kid like me does not belong in the spelling bee. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Every day I took it outside for a few minutes to expose it to the bees for pollination. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She was about to remind me of it but I said Boswell aloud, very slowly as if in a recital or bee. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The Queen Anne’s lace sways on its taproots, and the bees do their steady work. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But here, now, surrounded by stinging bees on all sides and the motherless place throbbing away, I knew that these bees were not a plague at all. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But Pa said there was lots of honey left for the bees, and there was another large, hollow tree near by, into which they could move. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank was the only one missing, though two of the dolphins had bee stings covering their faces. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I was stung by a bee when I was eight years old, and since then I’ve been a little timid about insects.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I tapped the glass, even laid the jar on its side, but those crazy bees stayed put. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z While Ralph explained about the bee, Theresa stationed herself on the far side of the triple-tiered hall table, so that her feet wouldn’t show. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There was order and beauty in the world of bees. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the bee launched itself right at my head! Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z "The killer was very cunning, Westing said. I read a mystery once where the victim was allergic to bee stings and the murderer let a bee in through an open window." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “But they say a husking bee is such — ” Slowly she began to realize what he had said. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not quite as exciting as the cliffs, but you’ll like the bees.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She walked slowly, pausing before each step to gather strength for the next; her hands kept up a slight, shuddering movement like the nervous flutter of a bee on a flower. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Smiling, he listened to his stomach, listened thankfully to a humming bee. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The bee gently lifted himself into the air and circled lazily over Milo’s head. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Ess was bothered a bit by the bees at first, and ran around waving her arms in the air whenever one landed on her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Was something—a biting fly, spider, tick, bee—something stinging or biting him inside the tight binding of his tikinagun? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z A moment later he let out a reverberating belch, and ten or so bees flew out of his mouth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Just on this one day, he had faced a bee and a mad mother, and here he was, alive and healthy as ever. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good. Now let’s take one of the alethiometer symbols. The hive, for example, surrounded by bees. One of its meanings is sweetness, and another is light. Can you see why?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She stops beside an arbor alive with the sound of bees. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In contrast to this, the Office of Vital Statistics records 33 deaths in 1959 alone from the sting of bees and wasps. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So the rest of us wouldn’t be plagued by insects, Hugh, the boy who had bees living in his stomach, ate under a large mosquito net at a table for one in the corner. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Several hundred species of wild bees take part in the pollination of cultivated crops — 100 species visiting the flowers of alfalfa alone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Even the farmer himself seldom understands the value of wild bees and often participates in the very measures that rob him of their services. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In England someone wondered what happened when bees made use of nectar from plants treated with systemics. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I guess if you squinted up your eyes it might look like a bee, but not too much. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a swarm of bees in my room!” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The people of Bone Gap whispered, No, don’t, please, as she slipped the bare hand inside the writhing mass of bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A lot of people are going to read it and be upset, I thought, and just at that moment I heard something that sounded like a swarm of angry bees. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We stood in a field overgrown with thistles and pokeweed, wild daisies and Queen Anne’s lace, swarming with bees and butterflies. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I run full speed, faster than any laps I’ve ever done in gym, faster than when I got stung by a bee when I was six. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The bees had taught him, he said, to rule wisely. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z By the precise and delicate timing that is nature’s own, the emergence of one species of wild bees takes place on the very day of the opening of the willow blossoms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It seemed as though the coming of the soldiers had been like the coming of a swarm of wild bees that leave behind them stings wherever they can. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z But it was like talking to a bee’s nest. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z But I felt confident of outwitting any bee. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The women and men, and a few children, rush from their seats like a swarm of bees. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Bekhir asked, raising an eyebrow at Hugh, who had long ago dropped his act and was now gulping down stew with abandon, bees buzzing happily around his head. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The bee landed on my mob cap just above my eyebrows. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought ofMadam putting Ruth up to auction was a constant torment, like bees darting in and out of my sight, daring me to swat at them. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I chased him some distance and got him going fast, away from the bee tree, and then I came back for the wagon.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z We enter the courtyard, and as Fiona pushes me along the sidewalk, I see the first signs that she’s been a busy bee. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The butterflies and bees that had landed on the mirror took flight when it was overturned, but only a few of the winged creatures flew away. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z His voice was low, like the drone of a thousand bees. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “And also do you have a brother who was into spelling bees?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The way the bees poured out, rushing up all of a sudden in spirals of chaos and noise, caused me to jump. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The roar remains, the buzzing of a thousand bees, very close. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I hate bees, as much as I hate spiders. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, Ambrose, firstborn son of the wealthy and influential Baron Jakis, had been busy as a bee in the social circles of Imre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “There,” he said, pointing to a long bee in the midst of all the others making their way across the sheet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Another was of a disconcertingly calm young man whose upper body appeared to be swarming with bees. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z No, stop! but the bees buzzed and the air trembled with them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I used to think of this as standard Greek behavior until I realized that ours was the only car in the church parking lot consistently swarmed by bees. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Strangest of all was the hive of bees that had taken up residence inside of me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z There was silence, except for the multitudinous murmur of the bees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Hugh was out of breath, bees darting around him in a state of agitation. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z No doubt the old lady employs people who work on it constantly, a queen’s army of worker bees. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Apple blossoms come with the lilacs, and the bees visit around among the apple trees. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The bees poured out, a singing angry stream, orange, brown, black, yellow. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The buzz in the room roared like a swarm of bees around her head. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z This was true of cockroaches, sheep, bees, and beetles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There he sucks contentedly, like a bee deep in a flower. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z We stayed like that while bees swirled around our heads with a sound like sizzling bacon, a sound that no longer registered as danger. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma came back in the afternoon when the buzz of a bee around the garden was almost lulling me to sleep. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was awake and interested, and Pan was buzzing around her head as a bee. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z That’s as if an English speaker were to write the word believe as a picture of a bee followed by a picture of a leaf. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Well, if he doesn’t go to the husking bee, nothing can happen, she thought practically. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z "A pity about the bees," he said at last. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The other part of me danced with the bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Screeching and leaping, the fans at Mr. P’s gave a good imitation of monkeys stung by a swarm of bees. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “I know about the birds and the bees.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Like bees. Very evocative. Now, Adelaide, what does she wear?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The air was drowsy with the murmur of bees and helicopters. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother assumed she had made her point in the flowers and bees. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She was one of the founders of Garland, the queen bee of the place when I lived there. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It was difficult to hear what they were saying because their voices sounded like bees, as if something was obstructing their noses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Not everyone was attentive; one juror, as though poisoned by the numerous spring-fever yawns weighting the air, sat with drugged eyes and jaws so utterly ajar bees could have buzzed in and out. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They were best with the bees, and there wasn’t room for so many hands in the hives, lifting the dripping frames. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Clouds of bees rose up and flew wreaths around her head. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Right now it’s enough to say that despite everything that happened that summer, I remain tender toward the bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside: owls, frogs, deer, the occasional bobcat, and Dr. Atchley keeps a small colony of bees. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I say the phrase carefully, like I’m announcing a spelling bee word. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As Mom dashes down the porch steps, Dad calls to her, “It’s all right! It’s just a bee.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The buzzing sounded again, louder, deafening, like a swarm of giant bees preparing to attack. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z When his bees all died from some unknown cause he went for help to his mother. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “The bee didn’t seem to mind a bit,” Hugh said, “so I shrugged and went on eating. Pretty soon I had a whole hive down there.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It’s just a pity that a bee got under Miss Love’s dust veil about time she crept the car around the Confederate monument. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When I was a seventh grade student at Finley Avenue Elementary School, Mr. A. G. Gaston held a spelling bee for Birmingham’s black students. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In spite of all the flying fragments the drivers of the munition columns pour in like a swarm of bees and pounce on the bread. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Mel tied a sheet around the tree branch right under the bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Emma shouted “Get down!” and we ducked for cover as bees tumbled over our skin, our hair. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don’t know very much about the birds and the bees. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “The little bees were in such swarms as to be a nuisance. Many small stinging bees were with them, which stung badly,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z A your breath smell like sour turnips bee. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z She winced as her movement panicked the bees and she felt another sting. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The literature of veterinary medicine abounds in similar examples: swine eating sprayed cockleburs with consequent severe illness, lambs eating sprayed thistles, bees poisoned by pasturing on mustard sprayed after it came into bloom. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He had been stung in the face by a swarm of bees. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In my mind I heard the bees fanning their wings down in the dark music box. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He had once watched his mother attend to a bee sting on his father’s neck. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z You could say the honey was foraged too, by the bees who made it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Music draws mockingjays like blossoms do bees, and in a short while he’s got half a dozen of them perched in the branches over our heads. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z A bee flew straight at my forehead, collided with the net, and bumped against my skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some sort of gift from the gods. My mom said he fought like a swarm of bees.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A swarm of yellow and brown surrounded him, like the swarm of bees that had surrounded Pablo de Pablo in the bedtime book. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The vegetables were small and withered, the flowers leached of their color, confusing the birds and the bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z They kind of swarmed all at once in confusion, like a cloud of bees busted loose from their hive. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Scout bees look for a suitable place to start the new colony. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Grasshoppers jumped around our feet, bees buzzed, a crow cawed in the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He had six goats and five hives of bees and a flock of chickens and a herd of geese and a pair of cardinals that stayed near his house the whole year around. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z After sunrise the bees would come out and I discovered that by slapping my two palms together smartly I could kill a bee. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The bee made a U-turn and came right back and—zap—stung Joey right on his arm. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as Jinny was lifting the first panel free of the hive, and gently brushing the bees off it, she heard a shout and turned. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The actual work was done by the servants, of course, but the queen bee of all this busyness was indisputably Lady Constance. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z A single bee finally inched out on the sheet and used it as a walking bridge to the box. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z This was a trick he’d learned from Gran, and unlike with rattlesnakes, it actually worked on bee stings. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The bee droned over us again, pausing to taste the chestnut blossom above our heads. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Or that horrible woman when she got stung in the bum by a bee!” said Enoch. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z We got all decked out in our bee outfits—at least I did. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “How do the bee folk know there is pollen in a flower? Ask away, young one, before I doze off again.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The people of Bone Gap said it made sense that Priscilla Willis was born into a beekeeping family, because she resembled nothing so much as a bee. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z On the windowpane the bee was buzzing—buzzing.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The bees had never done real harm before. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Like a hive of bees. I really hope we’re not all about to get stung.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “If it’s a tree,” said the other Bear, “there might be a bees’ nest in it.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z As though the tensions of recent days had followed her up into the prairie and were buzzing along with the bees. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Late that afternoon I caught two more bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The good bees kill them,” said a boy almost as small as Fidelito. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I remembered something Grandpa Portman had said about a boy he’d known here in the children’s home—a boy with bees living inside him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The hissing snakes and the angry bees, the empty nets, and Loo. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They were as large as bees, gross, purplish, glistening. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z That meant the bees had had time to store honey. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The apple trees were coming into bloom but no bees droned among the blossoms, so there was no pollination and there would be no fruit. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The story continued in this way, half music, half poetry, as Garikayi told them of a king who placed his daughter on a platform over a big nest of bees in a tree. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I heard the rounds whining and buzzing around my head like angry bees. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We cannot be human without it; if we were to be separated from it our minds would die, as surely as bees lost from the hive. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Prism is an enormous, colorful honeycomb, full of the most creative little worker bees in the history of the universe. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I could hear cows mooing in a far pasture and bees buzzing in a nearby clover patch. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “When it gets over a hundred,” she said, “the flowers dry up and there’s no food for the bees. They stay in the hives fanning themselves. Sometimes they just roast.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, those would work. Let’s imagine another world, a different one again, where there are bees but no people. Would there still be a connection between a beehive and sweetness and light?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Perhaps the bees would be calm after all, the snakes silent, and the chickens full of eggs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The bee, who had tangled himself in some bunting, toppled to the ground, knocking Milo over on top of him, and lay there shouting, “Help! Help! There’s a little boy on me.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Whose fate is hovering in the air like a bee. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z When did middle schools eliminate weekly spelling bees? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Even insects, such as bees and ants, know how to communicate in sophisticated ways, informing one another of the whereabouts of food. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Be careful,” shouted Milo as the bug swung his cane again, catching the bee on the foot and knocking over the box of W’s. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z And then, just as quickly, the knot unraveled as the bees dispersed, filled the air around Jak and Oz with speed and fire. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Mami will think my detention is another badge of shame, like last year when I said I didn’t want to be in the spelling bee. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Possibly: yet why should I, if I can get sweet, fresh pleasure? And I may get it as sweet and fresh as the wild honey the bee gathers on the moor.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There were harsher plants as well—spiked jimson weeds and poisonous dark pokeberries, and bees droning everywhere. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z My mother warned me to stop, telling me that bees made honey, that it was not good to kill things that made food, that I would eventually be stung. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When a person guessed correctly, Jonas Apple would slap a bee sticker on him or her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I’d already been stung by bees a few times and knew how much it hurt. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I’m humming like a bee’s wings, never more awake, more alive. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The second shot missed, hit the blacktop a foot behind me and flew away humming like a bee. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Lysa's suitors were gathering around them like bees round a blossom. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z To work under Pai these days was to feel yourself caught in a swarm of angry bees, all stinging, buzzing, and hurling themselves at you tirelessly. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z |
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