| Suddenly the skep was enveloped in a cyclone of bees, and again the orchard sang with the exciting song of the wings. |
| Tom Dinass was there, too, in charge with the engineer of the skep, to ensure a safe descent. |
| He snatched the lanthorn Joe carried, held it down, and stepped off the skep. |
| And if I had been wearing a scarlet garter I would have tied it round their skep. |
| First, the old-fashioned plan of keeping the bees in a common bell-shaped straw hive, or skep. |
| This skep was made in the 1950s but is of a sort that has been used since ancient times. |
