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He bent to peer into the hive, to examine the young bees just hatching, the fat, black, and brown drones and the slim, alert queen bee. The girl, now that the responsibility of helping was off her hands, forgot her own nervousness and pressed forward also to look and ask questions.
He had humbly been grateful for even that one thing left for him to do: find Jock Drones for his mother. He had found Jock, and there had been no wrestling with an obdurate spirit to send him back home, like a man, to face the law and accept the penalty. There had been nothing to it. Jock had seen the light instantly, and with relief.
You are right to want to understand these people. You must go down amongst them. It has been slumming in Mayfair for you, I know. But have done with it now. It is these people we are going to fight. Let it be open war. Let them hear your programme at Glasgow. We don't want another French Revolution, but it is going to be war against the drones, fierce, merciless war!
Though one of the drones myself, I value the 'Sons of Martha' at their full worth." "Oh, they have their place. The trouble is to make them keep it." "'Pon my word, I scarcely thought you'd say that so clever an engineer as yourself!" Ashton glanced up to be certain that both Griffith and Blake had passed on into the car. "Your lordship hasn't quite caught the point," he said.
Innumerable are the still remaining vestiges of their taste and of their industry, and I have a most sincere satisfaction in thus doing them justice; in thus bearing my testimony, that, so far from being the drones of the land, there is no part of a province which they possessed, but what they have improved.
There is a special function belonging to drones in a hive. That special function of men in regard to women was repellant to Rosalie. All that pertained to it was repulsive to her. She loathed to think of men in that capacity and she loathed to see women ensnared in that regard by men.
"If the Puritan gentry you talk of would gird themselves like men, and come forth to the battle, how quickly would the Lord's work be done! They are the drones within the hive! They expect the honey, but do not the work." "It is so," said Godwyn, "but they have lands and goods and fame to lose. We have naught to lose can be no worse off than we are now."
David Crockett's homely motto gives the formula for all high success in life." "Yes; he spoke wisely. There would be few drones in our hive, if all acted up to his precept." "Few, indeed. Oh! I get out of all patience sometimes with men in business; they act with such feebleness of nerve such indecision of purpose.
The Tibboo women, indeed, are everything, and their men nothing idling and lounging away their time, and kicked about by their wives as so many useless drones of society. The women maintain the men as a race of stallions, and not from any love for them; but to preserve the Tibboo nation from extinction. The capital is placed in 25° 54′ N. Lat., and 14° 12′ E. of Greenwich.
A man, even a young and sturdy man, cannot work like a horse for months on end, eating his meals anyhow and sleeping when he can, without losing temporarily the zest for careless fun. For another thing, he found himself looking at these immaculate young people as any hard-driven worker must perforce look upon drones.
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