She remembered having heard or read somewhere the simile of a human hive.

His eyes were fixed in idle wistfulness on the mighty human hive before him.

This human hive, numbering at least ten thousand people, was the product of ninety days.

Out of the night-shrouded human hive beneath our feet shone here and there a point of light.

Mere pleasure-seekers-dronesin the human hive and all such ne'er-do-weels-werecarefulto give her a wide berth.

The great tall sides of buildings fly open, the human hive is there, beautiful and arduous beyond belief.

The difference was that the human hive was ruled by chaos brought about by this peculiar thing called individuality.

Under the June sunshine the opulent city of Bruges hummed with activity like the great human hive it was.

Paris is a human hive.

Nevertheless, hand in hand with industry, the schools must function; unattached to the human hive they are denied participation in life.

There was a buzz of excitement in the human hive, which the bailiff suppressed by a sharp rap of his gavel.

Even the man of wealth who lives on the interest of his possessions is not necessarily a drone in the human hive.

Life had been one long summer holiday, and she dressed in silks and jewels, one of the queen-bees in the great human hive.

Sanchia's Town, that had been a busy, humming human hive no longer ago than yesterday was this morning still, deserted, empty and dead.

He retired from idle company, and faction fights, the humming and the stinging of the human hive, to St. Dominic and the Nine Muses.

There it is-thatgreat human hive, in which I have a cell, for the purpose of therein distilling the somewhat acrid honey of erudition.