locust's

It has generally been effective, but in recent years some of the locust's relatives have risen up to become equally menacing.

Chapter 23 1996

Louder than the locust's buzzin, 'louder than the breakers' roar,

Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

From street and sidewalk, transparent hot waves swam up and danced themselves into nothing; while from the river bank, a half-mile away, came a sound hotter than even the locust's midsummer rasp: the drone of a planing-mill.

The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1907

From street and sidewalk, transparent hot waves swam up and danced themselves into nothing; while from the river bank, a half-mile away, came a sound hotter than even the locust's midsummer rasp: the drone of a planing-mill.

The Conquest of Canaan 1905

I'm not sure that the locust's droning and the bright flutter of the butterfly's wings are not the way Nature has of fastening the soul to the meaning of it all.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

I'm not sure that the locust's droning and the bright flutter of the butterfly's wings are not the way Nature has of fastening the soul to the meaning of it all.

The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

Suppose we all look carefully at the locust's long hind leg, segment by segment.

The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890

I used to fancy, when I saw her, a child under the old-fashioned locust's shade that fell about her father's modest place, that she was unlike other children.

The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Various 1888

The locust's head is so like that of a horse that the Italians call it cavalette.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

The locust's native country is not the north, but the south, the deserts of Arabia, Egypt, and Libya.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871