Not one pickopeck of muscow — money to bag a tittlebits of beebread!. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
The whole ends with a vivid but very comic representation of the avid consumption of the honey and beebread. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Occasionally, during the proper season, he locates a bees 'nest and therefrom procures an amount of honey, larvae, and beebread that proves an uncommon treat for himself and his family. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Bees, when deprived of their female sovereign, cease their labors; no pollen or beebread is seen on their legs; no ambition seems to actuate their movements; no dead bees are drawn out; no deformed bees, in the various stages of their minority, are extracted, and dragged out of their cells, and dropped down about the hive, as is usual among all healthy and prosperous colonies. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees] Reference
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