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Humble Bee
A corruption of the German hummel bee, the buzzing bee.
Sometimes called the Dumble-dor. Also Bumble-bee, from its booming
drone.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Humble Bee from Infoplease:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Humble-Bee - Burly, dozing humble-bee, Where thou art is clime for me. Let them sail for Porto Rique, Far-off heats through seas to seek; I will follow thee alone,
- Humble Bee - Humble Bee A corruption of the German hummel bee, the buzzing bee. Sometimes called the Dumble-dor. ...
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Berrying - 'May be true what I had heard,— Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force,' Said I, strolling through the pastures, And along the r
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Poems - Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home: Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. Long through thy weary crowds I roam; A river-ark on the ocean brine
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Rhodora: - In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the dese
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