melliferous

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They've perduced melliferous live-action pitchers 'fore Family Band, but this'n could be cut up and used for flypaper�and mebbe ought to be.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir: My favorite from the melliferous mouth of Senator Ev came out in Senate debate some years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

We find even to-day, among the melliferous hymenoptera, all the stages of progressive civilisation of our own domestic bee.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred

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 Moore, George (George Augustus)

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 O'Brien, Frederick