bee-hunter

The bee-hunter now took hold of the bush-rope just above the torch and passed the other end around the trunk of the tree, holding one end in each hand.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Still they must often suffer, but they are used to the pain and learn to bear it impassively, as without doing so no man could be a bee-hunter.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Indians, desperadoes and wild beasts, but he finally got to the neighborhood of San Antonio, and fell in with another adventurer, a bee-hunter, also on his way to join the Texans.

American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

The bee-hunter takes advantage of this fact; he betrays her with a little honey.

An Idyl of the Honey-bee 1914

So, with haversacks filled with grapes and peaches and apples and a bottle of milk, —for we shall not be home to dinner, —and armed with a compass, a hatchet, a pail, and box with a piece of comb honey neatly fitted into it, —any box the size of your hand with a lid will do nearly as well as the elaborate and ingenious contrivance of the regular bee-hunter, —we sally forth.

An Idyl of the Honey-bee 1914

The bumblebee is an insect of which the bee-hunter sees much.

An Idyl of the Honey-bee 1914

Your native bee-hunter predicates the distance of the tree by the time the bee occupies in making its first trip.

An Idyl of the Honey-bee 1914

The regular bee-hunter professes to be able to tell a wild bee from a tame one by the color, the former, he says, being lighter.

An Idyl of the Honey-bee 1914

More than one hairbreadth escape did the old hunter have from Indians, desperadoes and wild beasts, but he finally got to the neighborhood of San Antonio, and fell in with another adventurer, a bee-hunter, also on his way to join the Texans.

American Men of Action Stevenson, Burton E 1913

Into this scene Cooper called some creatures of his fancy; among them a bee-hunter, suggested by the following incident.

James Fenimore Cooper Phillips, Mary E 1912