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When I was in high school in the ’80s, not a soul — not the plaid-clad queen-bees, not the flamboyant theater crowd — shaped their eyebrows.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2009

But of course there was not, there could not be, any real peace on such terms between the two queen-bees in that swarming hive of barbarians.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas

It has been observed that queen-bees lay female eggs first, and male eggs afterwards.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)

Calling one day on my mother, he brought with him four queen-bees of a new breed, each one encased in a little paper bag.

From The Days Before Yesterday by Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord

Only the workers and the queen-bees of a hive have stings: the males are stingless.

From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various