unhive

Example Sentences

• "[T]he Mercers encreaſing prodigiouſly vvent back into the City; there like Bees unhiv'd they hover about a vvhile, not knovving vvhere to fix; but at laſt, as if they vvould come back to the old Hive in Pater-noſter Rovv, but could not be admitted, the ſvvarm ſettled on Lu[d]gate-hill."
• "and unhived those numerous swarms of labouring bees which used to drop honey-dews over all this kingdom, to place in their room swarms of senseless drones."
• "His broad hands smoothed her head, as fain to brush it free From fancies, swarms that stung like bees unhived."
• "But if there be any who are herin delinquent; it were more justice and generosity to give a Catalogue of such Drones to those who have an undoubted Power to make them Labour, or Unhive them: And that the Righteous be not as the Wicked."
• "We need no more, one age will discover the effects; the people insensibly file northwards, where they intrench themselves in the mud; the ocean is debarred her wantering, the hollow land made frim, the lakes drained; the loose sand becomes a stable foundation for great emporiums; the ancient cities of Flanders, Brabant, and Arois unhive themselves into the new ones of Holland, Zealand, and West Friesland; and, in a word, the younger colonies (notwithstanding the disadvantages of nature) yielding an asylum to liberty, shall equal and far exceed what the former ever were."
• "We conquering Ensigns to Rome might extend, If each man was faithful and true to his friend; There to unhive the old Pope and his Crew, And lead them in Triumph New London to view :"