The Commonwealth would contradict that claim with the counter assertion that, straight as a Hiving bee, Asa had hastened from the train to the Governor's official headquarters, where he had been cold-bloodedly rehearsed in his grim duties.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
He's been Hiving a swarm of bees; that's why he's got that mosquito net veil around his hat.
"Lady-Betty-Across-the-Water"
Lowell, Orson
"It will be a city some day," prophesied Brook as he put on an old overcoat that had hitherto survived the ravages of time; "you see all our comrades who have discovered that farming is not their vocation are Hiving off into it, and many of them, being first-rate mechanics, they have taken to their trades, while those with mercantile tendencies have opened stores.
"The Settler and the Savage"
R.M. Ballantyne