And now, for the first time, although I had been living within sound of locusts for a week or more, I suddenly came to trees in which they were congregated.
The cow-bells and the locusts filled the air with music, the birds kept me company, and for half an hour or more I had human society that was even more agreeable.
But I have heard that he does not scruple to modify slightly the schemes of Providence by shovelling the unwelcome locusts upon any of his neighbours' fields which may adjoin his own estate!
At one period they seemed to almost shut out the daylight, and it was easy to realise how unpleasant it would be to meet a flight of locusts when walking or even riding on horseback.
This, of course, is ridiculous; what really happens is that the rails become so greasy from the crushed bodies of the locusts that the wheels can secure no grip on the metals and spin round to no purpose.
The locusts in the grass turned and turned their creaking wheel, and the wind whispered in the tall larches.
The cursed place, just a huddle of blind, mud huts under a dozen sickly trees, had been swept clean some time ago by the passage of a swarm of those voracious locusts known as jarad Iblis (the locusts of Satan).
The grain had but just begun to sprout when myriads oflocusts appeared, devouring every green thing.
A heavy frost early in the autumn destroyed the few fields the locusts had spared, and then commenced the horrors of a universal famine.
The air was filled with the sounds of the tree locusts and the tremendous hissing noise of the cicadas, the sun shining through the trees and producing a temperature and light which were simply perfect.
But to tell the horrible truth, the cooked locusts were so nice that he preferred to gorge on them along with the other animals.
But soon there was a whirring and a whizzing, and hundreds of locustsflew over his head; they were followed by thousands, the swiftest of the mighty host.
On the farms, one method of getting rid of the locusts is by creating an infernal din by the beating of pots and pans, when they retreat to the lands of a neighbor!
Perhaps the locusts are upon us, swarming in at the window of the carriage, where the native traveller crushes them vindictively.
These locusts are, as may be supposed, the great enemies to the farmers of these regions--their greatest, even before early and late frosts.
We noticed hamming birds and locusts or grasshoppers, as they are here called, innumerable.
And he made a very strong wind to blow from the west, and it took the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea: there remained not so much as one in all the coasts of Egypt.
But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring in to-morrow the locusts into thy coasts; 10:5.
Their effect was especially felt when the destruction caused by the drought and the locusts ceased.
The subsequent plagues of drought, sterility, and locusts afflicted the kingdom of the Ten Tribes equally with the kingdom of Judah.
These devastations by thelocusts continued throughout several years.
His highly coloured description of the ravages of the locusts and the accompanying calamities is a stirring picture; the reader feels himself to be an eye-witness.
In search of nourishment, these locusts now flew across the Jordan to the kingdom of the Ten Tribes, and devoured all that had not been withered by the dry rot.
This accounts for the prodigious clouds of locusts and countless hosts of caterpillars, which suddenly desolate our fields and gardens.
Thus in the latter half of the fifteenth century, during the reign of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a plague of locusts threatened the province of Mantua in Northern Italy with famine, but were dispersed by excommunication.
In the latter case one of the largest of the locusts was seized and tried and then put to death by being thrown into the water with anathemas on the whole species.
Pious Mohammedans exorcise and ostracize locusts and other harmful insects by reading the Koran aloud in the ravaged fields, as was recently done at Denislue in Asia Minor with satisfactory results.
Again in 1541, a cloud of locusts fell upon Lombardy, and by destroying the crops, caused many persons to perish with hunger.
It will be as well to observe here, that within a week from this time all the locusts had disappeared, no one knew how—only a few stragglers remained.
The 'stridulation,' as this form of musical production is called, in some locusts is so loud that it can be heard on a still night for a distance of a mile.
Some South American locusts are such wonderful performers that the Indians keep them in wicker cages, in order that they may enjoy the playing.
He listened to the buzzing of locusts rise and fall.
He heard a buzzing in his ears, like locusts on the prairie.
Its severity can be well understood by those who have been in Egypt in a part of the country where a plague of locusts has alighted.
When they reached the prepared heaps of heath, and these were set on fire, the locusts marched on without pausing, until in a brief time they put the bonfires completely out.
Lebanon was dismayed one year by the news that a vast army of marching locusts was coming from the eastern desert.
The governor of the district ordered a regiment of soldiers to aid the people to construct a great rampart of heath bushes to be set on fire as the locusts came up to it, hoping thus to save the gardens of Beyrout.
The roads were difficult, and the locusts having fallen into the wells and cisterns, had poisoned all the waters.
Clouds of locusts from Arabia finished the devastation of the fields of Palestine.
An Armenian historian says of the preparations for this crusade, “The gates of the Latins were opened, and the inhabitants of the West saw issuing from their countries armies and soldiers numerous as locusts or the sands of the sea.
Dense black clouds rolled away to leeward, amidst which hovered swarms of swallows and insect-feeding birds with an outer fringe of kites, kestrels and magpies, all preying on belated locusts and coleoptera.
Their food consists of frogs, as well as lizards and various small reptiles and insects; in May we have watched them snapping up locusts by dozens.
Previous to landing, the whole island appeared to be perfectly alive with a dense cloud of small flying animals, which, on our reaching the shore, proved to be locusts in countless numbers, forming a complete curtain over the island.
For a prince that chooses rather to govern slaves than freemen is like a foolish farmer, who throws his wheat and barley in the streets, to fill his barns with swarms of locusts and whole cages of birds.
And in Sicily, where in the servile war much blood was shed, and many carcasses rotted on the ground, whole swarms of locusts were produced, and spoiled the corn over the whole isle.
She looked and looked at the place where the spring was for truly the enemies were thick like locusts about the well.
She looked down and truly the enemies looked like manylocusts about the spring.
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