 | John George Wood - 1892 - 702 pages
...the business of nidification. It is very pleasant to see with what address it strips off the pubes, running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as itself, it flies... | |
 | Sidney Frederic Harmer, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - 1899 - 646 pages
...the business of nidification. It is very pleasant to see with what address it strips off the pubes, running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with the dexterity of a hoop -shaver. Wrhen it has got a bundle, almost as large as itself, it flies away,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1902 - 610 pages
...to see with what address it strips off the pubes, running from The Natural History of Se I borne 451 the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it...flies away, holding it secure between its chin and its fore-legs. There is a remarkable hill on the downs near Lewes in Sussex, known by the name of Mount... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1907 - 860 pages
...a downy stem, and there's some sort of bee which strips off the down from the stalk of this pink, " running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop-shaver,"1 Hoop-shaver? but I never saw so much as a hoopshaver! Must see one on the first chance,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 500 pages
...the business of nidification. It is very pleasant to see with what address it strips off the pubes, running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and...flies away, holding it secure between its chin and its fore legs. There is a remarkable hill on the downs near Lewes in Sussex, known by the name of Mount... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1907 - 856 pages
...a downy stem, and there's some sort of bee which strips off the down from the stalk of this pink, " running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop-shaver."1 Hoop-shaver? but I never saw so much as a hoopshaver ! Must see one on the first chance,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1907 - 850 pages
...a downy stem, and there's some sort of bee which strips off the down from the stalk of this pink, " running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop-shaver."1 Hoop-shaver ? but I never saw so much as a hoopshaver 1 Must see one on the first chance,... | |
 | 1911 - 844 pages
...bottom of a branch (of the Garden Campion) and shaving it bare with the dexterity of a hoop shaver: when it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as...flies away, holding it secure between its chin and forelegs." Literature and life abound with such scraps of inevitable observation, but England has not... | |
 | Oswald Hawkins Latter - 1913 - 152 pages
...the bottom of the branch, and shaving it bare with the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a bundle almost as large as itself it flies away, holding it secure between its chin and its fore-legs." Before proceeding to the social-bees, a passing mention must be made of two very striking... | |
 | Charles Aubrey Ealand - 1921 - 372 pages
...the bottom of the branch, and shaving it bare with the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a bundle almost as large as itself it flies away, holding it secure between its chin and its fore-legs." The ingenuity displayed by the solitary bee is diverted into the most varied channels.... | |
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There is a sort of wild bee frequenting the garden-campion for the sake of its tomentum, which probably it turns to some purpose in the business of nidification. It is very pleasant to see with what address it strips off the pubes, running from the top... 
