"Life is a beehive, Miss Parlow," said Alma, her rather grandiloquent and apiarian simile highly inaccurate, "some of us are the drones, some the workers, and some the queens.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
"A classic work among apiarian literature.
"Love's Usuries"
Louis Creswicke
Just such a buzz and murmur as then arises might have been heard in Weston court-yard when the boys poured out from the schools, only increased so much in volume as the human vocal organs are more powerful than the apiarian.
"Dr. Jolliffe's Boys"
Lewis Hough