bee (n.)
Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
The bee enclosed and through the amber shown
Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
Her lips were red, and one was thin;
Compared with that was next her chin,—
Some bee had stung it newly.
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
In a cowslip's bell I lie.
Sparkling and bright in liquid light
Does the wine our goblets gleam in;
With hue as red as the rosy bed
Which a bee would choose to dream in.
