Today, however, their yellow-banded occupants are not my goal. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk] Reference
A sleeker form, its body yellow-banded, came buzzing out of the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Emma entered the short-term lot and pulled into a yellow-banded emergency-vehicle space. From Wordnik.com. [Gold of Kings] Reference
"Good-morning, miss," said he, raising one thick finger to his jaunty, yellow-banded cap. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
Of purple and lilac cloud the coiffure is, -- a magnificent Madras, yellow-banded by the sinking sun. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
The man opened the box a little way to let the yellow-banded creatures crawl over his fingers, to show their gentleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Windy Hill] Reference
The petition cited steep declines in recent years of the Franklin's and Western bumblebee in the West, and the rusty-patched and yellow-banded bumblebee in the East. From Wordnik.com. [The Fond du Lac Reporter Latest Headlines] Reference
These, when fully-grown, spin among the twigs of the food-plant a light cocoon, in which the black and yellow-banded wasp-like pupa spends its short summer term before the emergence of the moth. From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
The big yellow-banded sphinx whirred hither and thither on his owl-like wings, his large eyes glowing like rubies, hung quivering above some flower for a moment, and then was off again as swift as thought. From Wordnik.com. [Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man] Reference
It was about four inches in length, and two and a half inches in depth, and as it kept perfectly still I had time to admire its brilliant hues -- blue and yellow-banded sides with fins and tail tipped with vivid crimson spots. From Wordnik.com. [John Corwell, Sailor And Miner; and, Poisonous Fish 1901] Reference
Miscanthus varieties like the creamy-flowered "Morning Light," brilliant burgundy "Purpureus" and green- and yellow-banded porcupine grass are popular, as is fluffy, purple hairy awn muhly, "Karl Foerster" feather reed grass and the bottlebrush-flowered fountain grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
Switchblade saints: What about the yellow-banded Industrial variety?. From Wordnik.com. [The Monolithic Office | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
A little way to let the yellow-banded creatures crawl over his fingers, to show their gentleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Windy Hill] Reference
A glorious green and yellow-banded snake; and he coiled around my arm as if he'd always known me. ". From Wordnik.com. [What's Bred in the Bone] Reference
"Or, the yellow-banded bees. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
But they, as yellow-banded wasps, or bees. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
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