melliferous
Example Sentences
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Sir: My favorite from the melliferous mouth of Senator Ev came out in Senate debate some years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
His eyes were dim with pleasure long drawn out; they saw nothing, and it was some moments before the pallor and pain of Frank's face dispelled the melliferous Edens in which Mike's soul moved.
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore
The great idle drones, asleep in unconscious groups on the melliferous walls, are rudely torn from their slumbers by an army of wrathful virgins.
From The Life of the Bee by Alfred Sutro
None of the melliferous clan, in my neighbourhood at least, is stirring as early as she is.
From Bramble-Bees and Others by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Grelet was a skilled apiarist, and replenished his melliferous flocks by wild swarms enticed from the forests.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
