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The Locust

«The road winds up the hill to meet the height/ beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight / And yet no man would foolishly contend/ that where he sees it not, it makes an end.»
«And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: cankerworm, The Locust
«All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: consume, The Locust
«He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: The Locust
«Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; / Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.»
«And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: coasts, grievous, rested, The Locust
«That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: The Locust
«Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: The Locust
«I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: The Locust, tossed
«Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: The Locust