The American general in charge of NATO today declared the coalition forces in Afghanistan, have stirred up what he called a hornet's nest. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2006] Reference
A hornet is 3 times the size and 20 times the weight of a bee. From Wordnik.com. [Giant Asian Hornet] Reference
The hornet was the first paper-maker, and holds the original patent. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference
S. O'BRIEN: The president could be headed into a kind of hornet's nest. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2006] Reference
'I think we've stirred up a bloomin' hornet's nest and we'd best leg it out of here. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon of Skulls]
Still in hornet mode here, apparently. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing the forest for the flood « BuzzMachine] Reference
"hornet," which seems to have the same root as Zair'aun. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Palestine] Reference
The superintendent was down there mad as a hornet. From Wordnik.com. ["Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues] Reference
Hansen see she'd riled a hornet 'fore she got away. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Swoops the fierce hornet, or the moth's fell tribe. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
"I saw a toad swallow a hornet once," Tom declared. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
She'll be mad's a hornet, an 'I vaow I won't blame her. From Wordnik.com. [Randy and Her Friends] Reference
"As the hornet?" demanded his sister, beginning to giggle. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
A close call for the pilot of an F-18 hornet military jet. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006] Reference
'A burr under his saddle, perhaps, or the sting of a hornet? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
I think it made her mad as a hornet and she brought down the hammer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2008] Reference
What a hornet you have sent to enliven our placid little investment!. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
He was hit in the upper arm by a buckshot and it stung like a hornet. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
Shun idleness as you do the sting of a hornet, or the bite of a rattler. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
The weapons on the landing hornet ships were swiveling, targeting Orphu. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
We look scared, lak mules in de midst of a hornet nest, as we stood dere. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
He's been along for the ride on F-18 super hornet while on temporary duty. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009] Reference
And then I would fall asleep, until morning came and the hornet buzzed again. From Wordnik.com. [A King of Infinite Space]
At any rate, I threw open the window and blew out the light, as mad as a hornet. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
They were approaching what looked like the world's biggest, fiercest hornet nest. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
Instead he jumped back as though he had been stung by a hornet, and let out a yell. From Wordnik.com. [Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island] Reference
Sleepily I watched the anxious labors of a hornet, busily building its nest of clay. From Wordnik.com. [The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions] Reference
I wear my age like a bruised apple — the hornet, drunk on the last of my sweetness. From Wordnik.com. [All My Sins Rising and Other Uncertainties, After Reading Furious Cooking] Reference
BUCKLEY (voice-over): The Super hornet is bigger and faster than the conventional hornet. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2002] Reference
This beautiful reptile is somewhat similar to a hornet in size and colour, but of a rounder. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
It were idle to talk of a hornet to him who has never during his life smarted from its sting. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
Of course, Bill was as mad as a hornet at Dutchy, and expressed his feelings in no mild terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference
"If he does anything that I can laugh at, I'll laugh till he's mad as a hornet," she whispered. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times] Reference
But a hornet, one of the servants of the evil spirit Lempo, was sitting on the roof and overheard. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
But if he's so irritated and I'm like a hornet and I'm really staying on him, he just may let go. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 16, 2006] Reference
She would dislike discovering that she was putting her hands into two hornet nests, not just one. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
I can't imagine any animal would stand still to be brushed with it; the thing buzzed like a hornet. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Project] Reference
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