I took a walk round the suburbs one morning, whilst a strong wind was bringing the locusts towards the coast, which fell upon us like hailstones.

In lieu of better they were often fain to satisfy their craving for flesh by eating locusts and larvae, as tribes in the interior still do.

Other families we saw had brought with them and planted the locust.

While Alexius was busied in dealing with Godfrey and Raymond, Bohemond and Tancred, he was not less anxiously occupied with the task of sending across the Bosporus the swarms which might soon become an army of devouring locusts round his own capital.

"No you have not, you have not fed the locust!"

CHAPTER VII FIGHTING THE LOCUSTS While I was traveling in the south, another menace to our people's welfare had appeared: the locusts.

Hovering about the great host of grumbling hoofy locusts, he kept them together and on the move, while Pedro played the part of a big, noisy, and troublesome second.

I have seen these pods for sale in this country, and foolishly called St. John's bread, as if the 'locusts' eaten by John the Baptist were pods of a locust tree, and not insect locusts.

The mesquite is a shrub that somewhat resembles our locust.

Have I not made thee great, given thee authority To scourge those mis-beleevers, those wild Locusts That thus infect our Empire with their Scismes?

The eighth our Lord sent to them locusts, which is a manner great fly, called in some place an adder-bolte, which bit them and ate up all the corn and herbs that was left, in such wise that the people came to Pharaoh and desired him to deliver, saying that the land perished.

Then she took the lid off the iron pot and showed him the locust eating grass inside; and Chando had nothing to say.

Then Chando's wife shut up a locust in an iron pot and when Chando at last came home she asked him "Why have you been so long?

Then Pharaoh waveredmorehe called the Hebrews in his haste Imploring respitepleading his repentance bitterly For there was death on every side, and all the land was waste; So the western wind of God blew the locusts out to sea.

what's this?" demanded one of the policemen in a brisk, business-like tone, swinging his locust, and looking sharply about him, as if in quest of some desperado upon whom to vent his wrath.

In these rocks there are numerous marine productions, and among others, one which the miners denominate a locust, for which they have been known to refuse its weight in gold; it being understood that there is only one other place in the kingdom where they are to be found.

Arabs attempt to destroy locusts by digging pits into which they may fall.