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Meanings of bumble-bee in English

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Usage of bumble-bee in English
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A bumble-bee alighted and strolled on the crown of his Panama hat.
Five Tales
2
The bumble-bee is an insect of which the bee-hunter sees much.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
3
A bumble-bee sailed across from over the Edge of the World.
Tales of Wonder
4
The buccaneer bumble-bee sometimes tries to rifle it of its sweets.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
5
Canon Horniblow boomed and droned, like some unctuous giant bumble-bee, from the reading-desk.
Deadham Hard: A Romance
6
Full of plans for refurnishing and redecorating, she was busy as a bumble-bee.
A Daughter of the Middle Border
7
The low shoe and the low hum of the bumble-bee are again with us.
Remarks
8
She could never hear a bumble-bee without thinking of it.
The Fortunate Youth
9
My fretful bumble-bee, I'd write to old Tight-Whiskers about it if I was you.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
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A bumble-bee droned between visits to foxglove bells near by.
The Fortunate Youth
11
But really it's more like a small bumble-bee than anything.
The Spinners
12
Insects also go into winter-quarters by or before this time; the bumble-bee, hornet, and wasp.
Winter Sunshine
13
All at once he saw a great bumble-bee fly out of one of the tulips.
At the Back of the North Wind
14
Their existence therefore depends upon that of the bumble-bee.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
15
It might have been at a trespassing bumble-bee however.
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
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A bumble-bee had droned round her while they kissed.
The Fortunate Youth