"Wasps' nest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in you, and he seemed to me to be very much exasperated against your husband," answered the old cure. He retained an impression, from the ex-pressman's rambling talk, that the Sechards' affairs were a kind of wasps' nest with which it was imprudent to meddle, and his mission being fulfilled, he went to dine with his nephew Postel. That worthy, like the rest of Angouleme, maintained that the father was in the right, and soon dissipated any little benevolence that the old gentleman ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac
... must take a wasps' nest to-night," said her father. "I've not decided which way to take it yet. There are seven different ways to take ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... hurried to Capua, and embarking at Brundusium felt, no doubt, that if he must pay his debt to the army before the army would commit fresh treasons for him, it was not unpleasant now to be forced away from the wasps' nest which he had stirred up round him at home. And so, making a virtue of a necessity, he sailed with a light heart from the chance of assassination at Rome to fame and fortune ...
— The Gracchi Marius and Sulla - Epochs Of Ancient History • A.H. Beesley
... to do, since you advanced too dangerously nigh. If you should do the same again, I'll punch you in the eye. Though I'm a stay-at-home and most a quiet life enjoy, Polite to all and every (for I'm naturally coy), Still if you wake a wasps' nest then of ...
— Lysistrata • Aristophanes |
