melliferous

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

None of the melliferous clan, in my neighbourhood at least, is stirring as early as she is.

From Bramble-Bees and Others by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

“Is it melliferous, then?” asked Vic, with a smile.

From The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

The great idle drones, asleep in unconscious groups on the melliferous walls, are rudely torn from their slumbers by an army of wrathful virgins.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred