...wn of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called “Gopher Prairie, Minne- sota.” But... ... prairie they lost sight even of the country road. It was warm and placid. Locusts trilled among the dry wheat-stalks, and brilliant little flies hurt... ...t, children at play, a man beat- ing a rug wind in the cottonwood trees, a locust fiddling, a footstep on the walk, jaunty voices of Bea and a grocer’... ...ers showing layer under layer of paste- smeared green and streaky red. The grove of oaks at the end of the street suggested Indians, hunting, snow-sho... ...ed a tiny creek bowered in pussy- willow buds. She was nearing a frivolous grove of birch and poplar and wild plum trees. The poplar foliage had the d... ...limbs of a Pierrot. The cloudy white blossoms of the plum trees filled the grove with a springtime mistiness which gave an illusion of distance. She r... ...4 Main Street mented, “Pretty nice, over there,” as they approached an oak-grove where shifty winter sunlight quivered in the hollow between two snow-...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and ...

...arth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of th... ...crifice. 13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14 If ... ...nge gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: 4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to... ...e king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook... ...fted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah. 7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his p... ...less there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God. 4 And Je... ...m. 18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their tr...

...rce through? In our wild Seer, shaggy, un- kempt, like a Baptist living on locusts and wild honey, there is an untutored energy, a silent, as it were ... ...e; un- noticed to-day (says one), it will be found flourishing as a Banyan-grove (perhaps, alas, as a Hemlock-forest!) af- ter a thousand years. “He w... ... Anthropopha- gous bosom, arose there mysteriously under Clothes; a mystic grove-encircled shrine for the Holy in man. Clothes gave us individuality, ... ...nt, from the wide-opened doors, fair out- look over blossom and bush, over grove and velvet green, stretching, undulating onwards to the remote Mounta... ... mons. It was a Calenture,” adds he, “whereby the Youth saw green Paradise-groves in the waste Ocean-waters: a lying vision, yet not wholly a lie, for... ...range in his desert road, he descries lying far below, embosomed among its groves and green natural bulwarks, and all diminished to a toy-box, the fai...

...avenue. Mariana turned quickly down a narrow path leading into a dense fir grove; Nejdanov followed her. He was under the influence of a two- fold ast... ...na walked on in silence. A turn in the path brought them to the end of the grove in front of which lay a small lawn; a weeping silver birch stood in t... ... Nejdanov, indicating Markelov. “The very image of John the Baptist eating locusts ... only locusts, without the honey! But the other is splendid!” he... ...the room Mariana managed to whisper to Nejdanov: “Wait for me in the birch grove at the end of the garden. I’ll be there as soon as possible.” “She is... ... above everything—this he acknowl- edged from the bottom of his heart. The grove Mariana mentioned consisted of some hundreds of big old weeping-birch... ...following night, before daybreak, he stood on the out- skirts of the birch grove, not far from Sipiagin’s garden. A little further on behind the tangl...

...round, seeking for herbs that were antidotes to the poison of the serpent, grovelling among the grasses and strewn leaves of the wood, peering at them... ...the long dark wet lashes that clung to her colourless face, as at night in groves where the betrothed ones wander, the slender leaves of the acacia sp... ... Thereupon she coursed toward the King, even where the arrows gloomed like locusts, thick and dark in the air aloof, and said, ‘The victory is with yo... ...gthily, crumbling them at a blow, and bringing down the great hall and its groves, and glasses and gems, lamps, traceries, devices, a heap of ruin, th... ...in the dusk broad halls, halls of council, and again black pools and black groves, and columns of crowded porticoes,—all signs of an underground kingd...

...the islands round about. There Passepartout beheld beautiful fir and cedar groves, sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the mi... ...andas and porches, surrounded by gardens bordered with acacias, palms, and locusts. A clay and pebble wall, built in 1853, surrounded the town; and in...

...of the mountain, where the hemlocks and pines totally disap- peared, and a grove of the very trees that formed the subject of debate covered the earth... ...nches, in stately pride. The underwood had been entirely removed from this grove, or bush, as, in conjunction with the simple arrangements for boiling... ...ect of trade. During all this time, Marmaduke had been wandering about the grove, making observations on his favorite trees, 206 The Pioneers and the... ...ley of the Mohawk, and swept away the means of subsistence like a swarm of locusts, Nor were the people on the Flats in a much better condition. They ... ... James Fenimore Cooper CHAPTER XXXVII “Love rules the court, the camp, the grove.” —Lay of the Last Minstrel. “IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SAD, indeed, to lose...

...m from the Iroquois!” CHAPTER 4 “Well go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury.” —Midsummer Night’s Dream. THE W... ...t the rising, and may yet go off at the setting sun. I have often seen the locusts strip the leaves from the trees, but the season of blossoms has al-...

...ect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squir rel shooting was in a grove of tall walnut trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wand... ...appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at... ...ng and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove. As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way, his eye, ever open to eve... ...it a favorite haunt of troubled spirits. It stands on a knoll, surrounded by locust, trees and lofty elms, from among which its decent, whitewashed wa... ...of the bridge caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod. In the dark shadow of the grove, on the margin of the brook, he beheld something huge, misshapen an...

...thy” is long, as in “writhe”; and “toves” is pronounced so as to rhyme with “groves.” Again, the first “o” in “borogoves” is pronounced like the “o” ... ...gs:) “You boil it in sawdust: you salt it in glue: You condense it with locusts and tape: Still keeping one principal object in view— To pre...

...bend: Thus o’er the field the moving host appears, With nodding plumes and groves of waving spears. The gathering murmur spreads, their trampling feet... ...e revenge, and for the combat burn. As on some mountain, through the lofty grove, The crackling flames ascend, and blaze above; The fires expanding, a... ...tray, Or Thespia sacred to the god of day: Onchestus, Neptune’s celebrated groves; Copæ, and Thisbe, famed for silver doves; For flocks Erythræ, Gliss... ...e fat herds in plenteous pasture rove; And Stymphelus with her surrounding grove; Parrhasia, on her snowy cliffs reclined, And high Enispe shook by wi... ..., and nods his plumy crest: In throngs around his native bands repair, And groves of lances glitter in the air. Divine Æneas brings the Dardan race, A... ...ound, The flouncing steeds and shrieking warriors drown’d. As the scorch’d locusts from their fields retire, While fast behind them runs the blaze of ...

... and Glisas; the fortress of Thebes the less; holy Onchestus with its famous grove of Neptune; Arne rich in vineyards; Midea, sacred Nisa, and Anthedo... ...s ashes and the mountain nymphs, daughters of ægis bear ing Jove, planted a grove of elms about his tomb. I had seven brothers in my father’s house, ... ...ched many fountained Ida, mother of wild beasts, and Gargarus, where are his grove and fragrant altar. There the father of gods and men stayed his hor... ... river absent except Oceanus, nor a single one of the nymphs that haunt fair groves, or springs of rivers and meadows of green grass. When they reache... ...XI 323 swam hither and thither with loud cries amid the whirling eddies. As locusts flying to a river before the blast of a grass fire—the flame come... ...by slaying Hector, for all his lust of battle. Do what Apollo may as he lies grovelling before his father, ægis bearing Jove, Hector cannot escape us ...

...any signal. A green, open, undulating country stretched away upon all sides. Locust trees and a single field of Indian corn gave it a foreign grace an... ...to the south-west, and mount the hill among pine- woods. Glade, thicket, and grove surround you. You follow winding sandy tracks that lead nowhither. ... ...abitants must turn out and work like demons, for it is not only the pleasant groves that are destroyed; the climate and the soil are equally at stake,... ...ay, the wilderness of tumbled boulders, the great age and dignity of certain groves – these are but ingredients, they are not the secret of the philtr... ...e spirit of dexterity and finish breathes from the long alleys and the lofty groves, from the wildernesses that are still pretty in their confusion, a... ...y; but, its days of glory over, it now lies grilling in the sun between cool groves, and only at intervals the vehicle of the cruising tourist is seen...

...knoll; Grey rough-fingered oak and elm wood Push her by from bole to bole. Groves of lemon, groves of citron, T all high-foliaged plane and palm, Bloo... ... my lover! in this rich gloom, Smelling faint the cool breath of the lemon-groves near. As we lie gazing out on that glowing great star— Ah! dark on t... ...I Scarce thought it enough for him: so, By degrees, through the upper box-grove, Within me an old story hove, Of a man and a dog: you shall know. V ... ...lines of wheat T ripping straight through the fields, green blades, To the groves of olive grey, 205 Downy-grey, golden-tinged: and to glades Where ... ... cypress to pine, The lake-banks are seen, and beneath, Vineyard, village, groves, rivers, towers, farms, 206 The citadel watching the bay, The bay w... ...situdes they spring, And are as lasting as the parent thing. Yet numbering locust hosts, bent they to drill, 403 They might o’ermatch and have mankin... ...s knew. They were the earthquake and the hurricane, The lightnings and the locusts, plagues of blight, Plagues of the revel: they were Deluge rain, A...

...expect them beyond the next cape, where the nearest village nestles in its grove of palms. To the visitors it is all golden; for the hosts, it has ano... ... with expressions standing ready, like missiles, to be discharged upon the locusts – “troop of shamefaced ones,” “you draw in your head like a tern,” ... ...fa. The road is at this point broad and fairly good, running between thick groves of cocoa-palm and breadfruit. A few hundred yards along this the whi... ... lies round the shores of Faleula bay and through a succession of pleasant groves and villages. The road, one of the works of Brandeis, is now cut up ...

...ilet, he was bound but a short run down the river, to attend, in a festive grove, the afternoon wedding of his niece: so did not carry much money with... ...cial hour, I do any good to right or left, it is but involuntary influence—locust-tree sweetening the herbage under it; no merit at all; mere wholesom... ...fidence-Man in your youth, yet, how sweet to roam, day by day, through the groves, plucking the bright mosses and flowers, till for- lornness itself b... ...achelor with ire, “have you the spinal complaint? What are you ducking and groveling about? Keep still. Where’s your office?” “The branch one which I ... ...rom your old schoolmate—him with whom you have so often sauntered down the groves of Academe, discoursing of the beauty of virtue, and the grace that ...

...re in my poor little hill side, with its growth of frail and insect eaten locust trees. Eustace very frankly called the view from my hill top tame; a... ... Then she led Theseus along by the hand until they came to a dark, shadowy grove, where the moonlight wasted itself on the tops of the trees, without ... ...ce, built of snow white marble, 77 Hawthorne and rising in the midst of a grove of lofty trees. The thick branches of these trees stretched across th... ... tunes, the rocks bestirred their moss grown bulk out of the ground, and a grove of forest trees uprooted them selves, and, nodding their tops to one... ... beautiful objects ever seen on earth. It was hung upon a tree in a sacred grove, where it had now been kept I know not how many years, and was the en... ...ought up at Colchis, and had spent their play days in the outskirts of the grove, in the center of which the Golden Fleece was hanging upon a tree. Th...

...he first, Arch., as you know, lives in town; the second, Henry, in Clary’s Grove; and the third, William, in Warren County; and Fisher, the supposed m... ...tarted home without him. In a day or two Henry and one or two of his Clary-Grove neighbors came back for him again, and advertised his disappearance i... ... dead body, while Wickersham was despatched to arrest Henry Trailor at the Grove, and Jim Maxcy to War- ren to arrest William. On Monday last, Henry w... ...ctly how—into the road close to the brew- ery, and proceeded on to Clary’s Grove. He also stated that some time during the day William told him that h... ...covered with assessors and collectors, going forth like swarms of Egyptian locusts, devouring every blade of grass and other green thing. And, again, ...

...se, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: 5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, tha... ...RD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb o... ...ay, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested i... ... coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither af ter them shall be such. 15 For they covered t... ...ORD. 19 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 ... ...But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: 14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is...

... If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land... ...ers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger. 16 And he shall give Israel up because... ...fathers had done. 23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. 24 And there were a... ...r, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron. 14 But... ...al in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. 33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than al... ..., and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table. 20 So Ahab sent unto all...

...ed with a seventy four; Sophia’s cupola with golden gleam; The cypress groves; Olympus high and hoar; The twelve isles, and the more than I ... ..., and He led them onward, first through a low thicket Flank’d by large groves, which tower’d on either hand: They almost lost their way, and h... ...uch unblest on The soil of the green province he had wasted, As e’er was locust on the land it blasted. This was Potemkin — a great thing in day... ... has been well spelt In the despatch: I knew a man whose loss Was printed Grove, although his name was Grose. Juan and Johnson join’d a certain cor... ...ltation— Bear it, ye Muses, on your brightest wing! Howe’er the mighty locust, Desolation, Strip your green fields, and to your harvests cli... ...urselves in town at once;— Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Eleven” 240 Through Groves, so call’d as being void of trees (Like lucus from no light); ... ...ers o’er the pile— Make this a sacred part of Albion’s isle. The Druids’ groves are gone— so much the better: Stone Henge is not— but what the...

...ich they had come was in Attica, hear the city of Colonus. It was a lovely grove— ‘ All the haunts of Attic ground, Where the matchless cours- ers bou... ...ine, Droops the never-trodden vine.’ Anstice. This beautiful grove was sacred to the Eumenides, or aveng- ing goddesses, and it was ther... ...o meet the foe. The Persian army were seen covering the whole country like locusts, and the hearts of some of the southern Greeks in the pass began to... ... every spear wreathed, every head crowned with bay, so that an ev- ergreen grove might have seemed marching through the Roman streets, but for the war...

...stablished fortress of lesser Thebes and holy Onchestos, Poseidon’s bright grove; and that possessed Arne rich in vineyards, and Mideia and sacred Nis... ...hee nor the gifts of Aphrodite, those thy locks and fair favour, when thou grovellest in the dust. But the T rojans are very cowards: else ere this ha... ...ther and thither whirled round the eddies. And as when at the rush of fire locusts take wing to fly unto a river, and the unwearying fire flameth fort... ...on his head and neck was much mire that he had gathered in his hands as he grovelled upon the earth. And his daughters and his sons’ wives were wail ... ...on lost his life, but I continually mourn and brood over countless griefs, grovelling in the courtyard close amid the mire. Now at last have I tasted ...

...regions, the storehouses, and the cellar. Lastly, around the whole stood a grove, from the recesses of which came the echoing songs of nightingales. I... ...th hats, make away with money earned by blood and hard work, and, like the locusts of Egypt (to use Kostanzhoglo’s term) not only devour their prey, b... ... “Ah, my deliverer!” he cried as he rose from the floor, where he had been grovelling in heartrending paroxysms of grief. Seizing the old man’s hand, ...

...portant mes sages; he is not an evangelist, nor does he come round eating locusts and wild honey. I doubt if Flying Childers ever carried a peck of c... ... liest voyages up the river, when the house was con cealed behind a dense grove of red maples, through which I heard the house dog bark. I was in has... ... remembering the pangs and the delights of su pernal love in the infernal groves. Yet I love to hear their wailing, their doleful responses, trilled ... ...ve, but to the infernal Plutus rather. By avarice and self ishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as p... ...om my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy me... ... she is silent henceforth. How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down? Now the trunks of trees on the bottom, and the old l... ...ermit. I wonder what the world is doing now. I have not heard so much as a locust over the sweet fern these three hours. The pigeons are all asleep up... ... If we have had the seven years’ itch, we have not seen the seventeen year locust yet in Concord. We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe ... ...e should ever harbor it in his mind. Who knows what sort of seventeen year locust will next come out of the ground? The govern ment of the world I li...

...g the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. “They planted groves and walks of Platanes,” where they took subdiales ambulationes in ... ...nfucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey. T o preserve wild animals implies generally the c... ...em, few and fewer thoughts visit each growing man from year to year, for the grove in our minds is laid waste—sold to feed unnecessary fires of ambi ...

...ater below as in the air above. The birds seemed to flit through submerged groves, alighting on the yielding sprays, and their clear notes to come up ... ..., as made Greece sometimes to be forgotten?—Philosophy, too, has there her grove and portico, not wholly unfrequented in these days. Lately the victor... ...ys keep us so.” What earth or sea, mountain or stream, or Muses’ spring or grove, is safe from his all searching ardent eye, who drives off Phoebus’ b... ...ediate to be done are very trivial. I could postpone them all to hear this locust sing. The most glorious fact in my experience is not anything that I... ...btile ether, sweeps along with the prevailing winds of a country. The very locusts and crickets of a summer day are but later or earlier glosses on th... ... cattle, and all tracks seemed a point to one centre behind some statelier grove,—we imag ined that the river flowed through an extensive manor, and ... ...less meeting house, stood on the opposite or east bank, near where a dense grove of willows backed by maples skirted the shore. There also we noticed ... ... the next day to disap pear, and go into his hole like the seventeen year locust, in an ever shabby coat, though finer than the farmer’s best, yet ne...

... Indiana and the mocking-bird singing in the moonlight among the flowering locust trees behind the house. He could almost smell the heavy sweetness of... ...t trees behind the house. He could almost smell the heavy sweetness of the locust blooms, as he used to smell them sitting on the steps after supper, ... ... the long drab lines. A wind had come up, rustling the stiff leaves of the grove of walnut trees. The voice squeaked above it, but Chrisfield could no... ...into the flaring muzzle of a gun. At the foot of the hill, beside a little grove of uninjured trees, they stopped again. A new train of trucks was cra... ... few minutes to take a last look at himself before plunging again into the grovelling promiscuity of the army. Not a light showed. All the shutters of... ...ious greens rising to hills tufted with dense 341 John Dos Passos shadowy groves. On the bare summit of the highest hill a windmill waved lazy arms a... ...ke a schoolboy. At a turning he threw himself down on the grass under some locust trees. The heavy fra- grance of their flowers and the grumbling of t... ... the distance, leaving him again to the sound of the drowsy bees among the locust blossoms. When he sat up, he noticed that through a break in the hed... ...d that through a break in the hedge beyond the slender black trunks of the locusts, he could see rising above the trees the extinguisher-shaped roof o...

...hall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. 6 For thou art an holy peop... ...d ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, an... ...he land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shal... ...arry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but... ... shall go into captivity. 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee...

... person, fresh from sea, and who has just walked, for the first time, in a grove of cocoa-nut trees, can be a judge of anything but his own happiness.... ...onia. This butterfly is not uncom- mon, and generally frequents the orange-groves. Although a high flier, yet it very frequently alights on the trunks... ... The outskirts of the city looked quite pretty, with the agave hedges, and groves of olive, peach and willow trees, all just 135 Charles Darwin throw... ... is very ancient; and the irregularity of the streets, and the surrounding groves of old orange and peach trees, gave it a pretty appearance. The chur... ...here —Elec- tricity — Pampas — Zoology of the opposite Side of the Andes — Locusts — Great Bugs — Mendoza — Uspallata Pass — Silicified Trees buried a... ...om some great fire on the plains; but we soon found that it was a swarm of locusts. They were flying northward; and with the aid of a light breeze, th... ...once alighted, the individu- als flew from side to side in all directions. Locusts are not an uncommon pest in this country: already during the season... ..., by shouts, and by waving branches to avert the at- tack. This species of locust closely resembles, and perhaps is identical with, the famous Gryllus... ... its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf. It is ad- mirable to behold groves of a tree, sending forth its branches with the vigour of an English ...

... of any special wonders or miracles, is a proposition better suited to the grovelling appre- hension of the herd than to the fervid dreams of the man ... ...n charac- ter; then he saw the gentler elm, succeeded by the sassafras and locust—these again by the softer linden, red-bud, cat- alpa, and maple—thes... ...lay to the north, beyond the brook, and were thoroughly concealed by a few locusts and catalpas. Not more than six steps from the main door of the cot... ...n loud tones, of the love and of the glory of God. And, here and there, in groves about this grass, like wilder- nesses of dreams, sprang up fantastic...

...ntaneous as any, We are two fishes swimming in the sea together, We are what locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes mornings and evenings, We... ... of the Italian boat sculler the musical recitative of old poems, I hear the locusts in Syria as they strike the grain and grass with the showers of t... ...s, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exh orters, I see where druids walk’d the groves of Mona, I see the mistletoe and vervain, I see the temples of the... ...reenlander, Lapp! You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, groveling, seeking your food! You Caffre, Berber, Soudanese! You haggard,... ...hs growing from him to offset the growths of pine, cedar, hemlock, live oak, locust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 356 ora... ...il! Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough? Have we not grovel’d here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes? Have we ...

... pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove, especially in winter, when the barrenness of all other trees shows t... ...n his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns, its spikes of flowers, its locust, elm, oak, pine, fir and spruce. The Gothic cathedral is a blossomin... ...rer home than with men:— 94 Essays “Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves, Moonlight wa... ... Essays age of every created thing. O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pas- tures, and not in castles or by the sword-blade any longer.... ...ret prom- ises. We heard what the rich man said, we knew of his villa, his grove, his wine and his company, but the provo- cation and point of the inv... ...his fancy would be, if they were not rich! That they have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they live in larger and better-garnished...

...ncy of such shitten stuff! After dinner they all went out in a hurl to the grove of the willows, where, on the green grass, to the sound of the merry ... ...ake great use when they are about neatly to clap on shoes on grasshoppers, locusts, cigals, and such like fly- fowls, so strange to us that I am wonde... ... 6,789,106,789 reals of certain rent, besides the uncertain revenue of the locusts and periwinkles, amounting, one year with another, to the value of ... ... it did amount to 1,230,554,321 seraphs, when it was a good year, and that locusts and periwinkles were in request; but that was not every year. Now h... ... all my revenue of the periwinkles, together with the other incomes of the locusts, albeit I should not thereby have any parcel abated from off the pr... ...of mag- pies, murmuring of stock-doves, crouting of cormorants, cigling of locusts, charming of beagles, guarring of puppies, snarling of messens, ran... ... like certainty of event as was tried of old at the Dina-ditch within that grove conse- crated to Apollo which is in the territory of the Lycians. By ... ...ing sun. It begirdeth and encompasseth forests, chases, parks, copses, and groves, for the pleasure of hunters. It descendeth into the salt and 497 R... ..., at a small desert seaport towards the south, seated near a fine pleasant grove, out of which flowed a delicious brook of fresh, clear, and purling w...

... hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images. 9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsak... ... all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. 10 Yet the defenced city shall be des... ...thered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them. 5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on h...

...is true. The Egyptian army! Crawling over the edge of the west harbor like locusts. (With sudden anger he strides down to Caesar.) This is your ac- cu... ...nts of levity? What Briton neglects to attend the services at the sa- cred grove? What Briton wears clothes of many colors as you do, instead of plain...

...e now shall they haunt? In vain is moaning. The axe glit- ters; the sacred groves fall crashing,—for indeed Monseigneur was short of money: the Opera ... ... ing sign! Cockades; green ones;—the colour of hope!—As with the flight of locusts, these green tree leaves; green ribands from the neighbouring shops... ...y lamp-festoons, trees real or of pasteboard; in the similitude of a fairy grove; with this inscrip- tion, readable to runner: ‘Ici l’on danse, Dancin... ...he Rhone-stream; beautifullest Town, with its purple vines and gold-orange groves: why must fool- ish old rhyming Rene, the last Sovereign of Provence... ...ing Course, with high-frondent Avenues, pitchy dockyards, almond and olive groves, orange trees on house-tops, and white glittering bastides that crow...

...ere now shall they haunt? In vain is moaning. The axe glitters; the sacred groves fall crashing,—for indeed Monseigneur was short of money: the Opera ... ...ying sign! Cockades; green ones;—the colour of hope!—As with the flight of locusts, these green tree leaves; green ribands from the neighbouring shops...

...de with hunger savorous, And nectar every rivulet with thirst. Honey and locusts were the aliments That fed the Baptist in the wilderness; Whenc... ...r thee to pass; the votive tapers shine; Like rooks that haunt Ravenna’s groves of pine, The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confe...

...st signal, they will soon resume New courage and revive, though now they lye Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire, As we erewhile, astounded an... ...S Son in EGYPTS evill day Wav’d round the Coast, up call’d a pitchy cloud Of LOCUSTS, warping on the Eastern Wind, That ore the Realm of impious PHARO... ...emple right against the Temple of God On that opprobrious Hill, and made his Grove The pleasant Vally of HINNOM, TOPHET thence And black GEHENNA call’... ...t thence his lustful Orgies he enlarg’d Even to that Hill of scandal, by the Grove Of MOLOCH homicide, lust hard by hate; Till good JOSIAH drove them ... ...not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Cleer Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie Hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee ... ...happy Iles, Like those HESPERIAN Gardens fam’d of old, Fortunate Fields, and Groves and flourie Vales, Thrice happy Iles, but who dwelt happy there He... ...it rouls; What it devours not, Herb, or Fruit, or Graine, A darksom Cloud of Locusts swarming down Must eat, and on the ground leave nothing green: Da...

... son’s fine taste an opener vista loves, Foe to the Dryads of his father’s groves; One boundless green, or flourish’d carpet views, With all the mourn... ...o pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just r... ...ise, and like some Fury rove Through lonely plains, and through the silent grove; 160 As if the silent grove, and lonely plains, That knew my ple... ...ar to mourn, And birds defer their songs till thy return: Night shades the groves, and all in silence lie, All but the mournful Philomel and I: With m... ...ery lotus spreads its arms above, Shades all the banks, and seems itself a grove; 61 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Eternal greens the... ...to give consent; So back to Pollio, hand in hand, they went. Then thick as locusts blackening all the ground, A tribe, with weeds and shells fantastic...

...rnaeus The Fall of Troy 17 The armour from their shoulders; some in dust Grovelled in terror ‘neath their shields: the steeds Fled through the rou... ... Swiftly the whole plain filled. Onward they streamed Like harvest ravaging locusts drifting on In fashion of heavy brooding rain clouds o’er Wide pl... ...non’s giant corpse Down by the deep flow of Aesopus’ stream, Where is a fair grove of the bright haired Nymphs, The which round his long barrow afterw... ... Lush dewy watermeads there were, bestarred With flowers innumerable, grassy groves, And springs with clear transparent water bright. There ships with... ...aned, By passionate longing for his father seized. As when through dense oak groves and tangled glens Comes to the shadowed cave a lion’s whelp Whose ... ...en Neoptolemus slew one far renowned, Perimedes, who had dwelt by Smintheus’ grove; Next Cestrus died, Phalerus battle staunch, Perilaus the strong, M...

...he precipice, “the uncircumcised are as the sands by the sea- shore—as the locusts in the wilderness! The valley of the King hath become the valley of... ...tree to tree; Fountains were gushing music as they fell In many a star-lit grove, or moon-lit dell; Y et silence came upon material things— Fair flowe... ... 215 V olume Five A snare in ev’ry human path— Else how, when in the holy grove I wandered of the idol, Love, Who daily scents his snowy wings With i...

...st eyes shall they come forth from their graves, as if they were scattered locusts, Hastening to the summoner. “This,” shall the infidels say, “is the... ...et do they persist in pride and in fleeing from Him! Is he who goeth along grovelling on his face, better guided than he who goeth upright on a straig... ...nd hath sent down rain to you from Heaven, by which we cause the luxuriant groves to spring up! It is not in your power to cause its trees to spring u... ...ent, we will not believe on thee.” And we sent upon them the flood and the locusts and the kummal (lice) and the frogs and the blood,–clear signs 27 –...