The yard was shaded by stately locusts and elms, and a catalpa tree in season rained its pink and white blossoms upon the grass.
His contributions in agricultural technology included exploding the theory of the unique importance of climate in ancient agriculture, further improving the technology of dry farming in the south, popularizing the planting of sweet potato and summing up the regularity of the plague of locusts and the ways to wipe out locusts.
And yet, our distress comes from no failure of substance, we are stricken by no plague of locusts.
He said John the Baptist ate locusts and honey in the wilderness, and he considers himself to be in the wilderness as well.
"This island and all adjoining it are inhabited by hairy savages, who are certain to attack us, and whatever these dwarfs may do we dare not resist, since they swarm like locusts, and if one of them is killed the rest will fall upon us, and speedily make an end of us.
They came in clouds till the air became darkened with birds as it was with the cloud of locusts over the land of Egypt.
Here is the best place for you, where there are frogs and locusts; here I shall remain, and so must you.
