In 1906 I spent the summer in a herders' hut on top of the divide, just west of the Locust Ridge (miscalled Chestnut Ridge on the map), about six miles east of Thunderhead.
In some places pine needles are called twinkles, and the locust insect is known as a ferro (Pharaoh?
The harrows were of wood, throughout, with locust teeth (a friend and I made one from the green trees in half a day, and it lasted three seasons on rocky ground).
This is the common Locust Screw,[75] which is so confined to sea-water, that it has been affirmed that if put into fresh water it presently dies.
Then, as if she had said too much, she pulled her bridle loose from my detaining hand with a quick jerk, and touched her horse, and we were on that hard gallop to Locust Creek.
And one of the maddest of the riders, sitting astride and flogging her steed with a locust branch, was Mistress Longman, while her husband vainly fled after her, beseeching her to stop, and those around were roaring with laughter.
But Mary met me at the northern door, which opened directly on a locust thicket and was little used, and stood before me with her beautiful face as white as a lily but a brave light in her eyes.
Locust Creek was not a large plantation, but the fields of tobacco were well set, and it was some task to cut them.
There were acres of tobacco, and whole fields of locust for the manufacture of metheglin, and apple orchards from which cider enough to slack the thirst of the colony was made.
She dismounted near me and her horse went to nibbling the low-hanging boughs of a locust nearby, and the moon shone full on her face, and I saw she was the Widow Tabitha Story, with that curious patch on her forehead.
The Locust belongs to the great order of Orthoptera, or straight-winged insects.
Some commentators have tried to prove that he fed on the fruit of the locust or carob tree--the same that is used in some countries for feeding cattle; but there is not the least ground for such an explanation.
Nothing can be more vividly accurate than this splendid description of the Locust armies.
The appearance of a Locust when at rest and when flying is so different that the creature is at first sight scarcely recognisable as the same creature.
Modern travellers have given accounts of these Locust armies, which exactly correspond with the sacred narrative.
And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt" (Exod.
The pods of the West India locust tree, Hymenæa courbaril, also supply a nutritious matter.
I think so, too," agreed the Little Colonel, stooping to fasten the locust blossoms more securely behind the pony's ears.
Eugenia's Bob was to be left at Locust until after she had made her trip abroad.
Into the cockade she had stuck a spray of locust blossoms, and as she rode slowly along she fastened a bunch of them behind each ear of her pony, whose coat was as soft and black as the velvet of her hat.
Down the long avenue they went, under that glowing arch, spangled as if with stars, and every friendly old locust held up all its twinkling lanterns to light them on their way.
Keith had offered to ride up to Locust and see what was the matter, and his surprise showed itself in his rapid questioning when he met her riding wildly away from the place where she had seen Limping Tige.
Somehow I can hardly wait to see them all now, although I don't want to leave Locust one bit.
Sally Fairfax welcomed no guests from Locust that night at her party, for the doctor made his visit and pronounced his verdict.
Although she had been so impatient for his coming, she said nothing about the invitation from Locustuntil they had gone down to dinner and were seated in the great dining-room together.
But the most beautiful part of the whole dazzling scene was the old locust avenue, strung from top to bottom with lights.
At such times the Locust hops more nimbly than ever, more gaily skims the Dragon-fly.
Perhaps the grey colour of the Locust is not sufficiently conspicuous to attract attention by itself.
A Locust whom I myself lay on the web procures her this agreeable shock and what follows.
Recognizing the large variety of game, we wonder how the Epeira manages not to hesitate amid those many diverse forms, how, for instance, she passes from the Locust to the Butterfly, so different in appearance.
A good hour passes, with the Locuststill kicking, the Spider impassive, myself watching.
If the test is to be applied to a species with a daytime hiding-place amid the foliage, the dead Locust is laid on the web, more or less near the centre, no matter how.
The Locust is not dead; far from it; one would even think that he had suffered no harm.
Naught remains of the Locust but his skin, hardly altered in shape, but utterly drained and perforated in several places.
The Locust is then perceived and forthwith enswathed, after which the signalling-thread is remade, taking the place of the one which I have broken.
I lay upon a Banded Epeira's lime-threads a Locust that second asphyxiated with carbon disulphide.
Should a thoughtlessLocust meekly approach one of the Empusae, suspended by her four hind-legs to the trellised dome, the intruder meets with a bad reception.
Let the same words comfort you that have often brought hope to me--'I will restore the years which the locusthath eaten.
Behind him, like a wilderness, lay years which the locust had eaten; the intrusted hours which had passed away, and been reckoned to him as they past.
But no doubt at the beginning of their life there Locust Grove was thus rendered doubly dear to both.
When Professor Morse purchased Locust Grove, before his second marriage, he was not aware that it had belonged to the family of the lady who was soon to become his wife.
Turn to the brook, where the honeysuckle, tipping O'er its vase of perfume spills it on the breeze, And the bee and humming-bird in ecstacy are sipping From the fairy flagons of the blooming locust trees.
I hurried through my business as quickly as I could, and got back to my house on Locust Street by twelve o'clock.
Fitch, United States Navy, and we all forthwith packed up and regained our own house at St. Louis, taking an office on the corner of Tenth and Locust Streets.
Cornyn came to our house on Locust Street, one night after I had gone to bed, and told me he had been sent by Frank Blair, who was not well, and wanted to see me that night at his house.
The group of trees which bounded my view at the end of this outdoor study I called the "locust group.
A little later in the season, when baby birds began to fly about, the locust group became even more attractive.
It consisted of a locust or two, surrounded by a small but close growth of lesser trees and shrubs that made a heavy mass of foliage.
And as for Stephen, he often went to his office through Locust Street, which was out of his way, in the hope that he might catch a glimpse of Virginia.
Many people walking home from church that morning marvelled as they saw these two on Locust Street together, the young girl supporting the elderly man over the slippery places at the crossings.
She was indignant by the time she reached Locust Street.
Not since that first evening in Locust Street had it taken on such assurance, And yet she could not be impolite to a guest.
With one frantic wrench he freed himself, and ran down Locust Street.
As soon as he could get his sister-in-law off to Locust Street in the carriage, Colonel Carvel came back.
Of the old days, of the happy days inLocust Street, of the Judge quarrelling with her father, and she and Captain Lige smiling nearby.
Throughout the winter, Mr. Hopper's visits to Locust Street had continued at intervals of painful regularity.
That which the palmer worm hath left, the locust hath eaten; and that which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten; and that which the bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed.
On two benches was a cart wheel, with its hickory spokes radiating like fingers from the locust hub, and on the floor were the mallet and the steel chisel with its tough oak handle.
We stopped to open the old gate, an ancient landmark of the early time, made of locust poles, and swinging to a long beam that rested on a huge post in perfect balance.
Through the fringe of locust bushes along the roadside we caught the first glimpse of home, and the three horses pricked up their ears and swung out in a longer trot.
The name I've chosen is, 'Picture of a locust brought in to have a good feed.
All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten.
There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
What the swarming locusthas left, the great locust has eaten.
I will restore to you the years that the swarminglocust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.
And if you can't send a Locust Preacher, send us an Exhauster.
If you can't spare him, send us a Locust Preacher.
Oak and locust pins are generally used, the latter being stronger and more lasting.
This extraordinary circumstance was accounted for by the Arabs, who said that not a locust would cross the river, till (sultan jeraad) the king of the locusts should precede and direct the way.
And, notwithstanding the incredible devastation that was thus produced, not one locust was to be seen.
Dey had a nice big house, white wid big porches an' big locust trees aroun' in de yard.
De white folks house wuz big, wid porches, an flowers all aroun', an sweet locust trees in de do' yard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "locust" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cricket; ebony; grasshopper; hopper; insect; oak; tree; wood
