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Meanings of busy hive in English

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Usage of busy hive in English
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Shall we be putting in an appearance at the busy hive now?
Psmith in the City
2
She would be but skeptic, critic, drone in the busy hive.
Spanish Doubloons
3
He had entered, it seemed, upon a busy hive of women.
Delia Blanchflower
4
In the busy hive of twentieth-century civilization scant space has been provided for drones.
A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the G...
5
We shall see it presently, when it emerges from that busy hive at Wedderburn.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
6
Dozens of humming, buzzing instruments lent the freighter's cockpit the air of a busy hive.
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
7
Little indistinguishable noises, the stir and hum of the busy hive into which I had entered.
Daisy
8
Humorously he thought of the hundreds of thousands of dollars this busy hive earned each year.
Together
9
But to her imagination Europe lay like a busy hive, moving to and fro in the sunshine.
Lord of the World
10
A drone in a busy hive.
Mrs. Day's Daughters
11
The place was a busy hive.
Half Portions
12
Of bees about their busy hive.
The Child's World: Third Reader
13
In the present woeful depression of the linen trade, it is cheering to look at this busy hive of industry.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
14
It was a sad, white, desolate world, which for over fifteen years he had known only as a busy hive.
The Man in the Twilight
15
You haven't noticed the busy hives, the industrious city, the thirst for knowledge.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
16
There, far down, earth and her busy hives.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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