There is love deep down in the passionate heart of the flower, as there is in the little quivering honeysucker flitting after his mate, as there was in Romeo long ago.
"The Soul of a People"
H. Fielding
It was not more than four feet above her head, but she lay so still and motionless that a jewelled honeysucker came and hovered over the flowers, darting from one to another like a many-coloured flash.
"Jess"
H. Rider Haggard
During the river voyage we saw now and then single green-coloured kingfishers flying about, and a honeysucker or two, but they were not nearly so numerous as might have been expected in this purely tropical zone.
"The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II"
A.E. Nordenskieold