Synonyms:
Queens
Meaning: a borough of New York City
Usage examples
There were simple monks and noble abbots; dukes, kings and queens; archbishops and cardinals and no fewer than four Popes.
Two queens may in this way, be made in six hives to furnish all the supernumerary queens which will be wanted in quite a large Apiary.
Also what shall queens and ladies say of me? It is pity that I have my life, that I will hold so noble a knight as ye are from his worship.
Queens that seem bent on departing to the woods, may be confined in the same way, until the colony has given up all thoughts of forsaking its hive.
When I first used this Nursery, I did not give the bees access to it, and I found that the queens were not properly developed, and died in their cells.
One of the most dreaded duties that falls almost invariably to the lot of queens is having to reign over adopted countries while exiled from their own.
Last Spring, I made one queen supply several hives with eggs, so as to keep them strong in numbers while they were constantly engaged in rearing a large number of spare queens.
Just as though it were not the blood of fifty kings and queens that made so red and sweet, aye, sweet as nectar thrice distilled, those lips which now so freely paid their dues in coined bliss.
It was I who told the Butterfly's Wife to ask the Butterfly to stamp, because I hoped that for the sake of the jest my Lord would make some great magic and that the Queens would see it and be frightened.' And she told him what the Queens had said and seen and thought.
"There cannot be two queens," said the king to himself, "so to-night I will watch in the nursery." As soon as the figure came in and took up her baby, he saw it was his real wife, and caught her in his arms, saying, "You are my own beloved wife, as beautiful as ever."