"Locust" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I know a flinty waste beloved of the wheatear and the locust. Here reigns perfect calm; moreover, there are some clumps of evergreen oak which will lend me their scanty shade. I take my book, a few sheets of paper and a pencil and fly to this solitude. What beauteous silence, what exquisite quiet! ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre
... the hymn to Eleanor, daughter of Mab and a golden drone, sung by the Locust choir when the fairy child marries her ...
— General William Booth enters into Heaven and other Poems • Vachel Lindsay
... hear the blackbird in the corn, The locust in the haying; And, like the fabled hunter's horn, Old tunes ...
— Selections From American Poetry • Various
... is from five to six feet long, made of lancewood or locust. Spanish yew is considered the choicest, next comes the Italian, then the English yew; lancewood and lancewood backed with hickory are used more than any other. In choosing a bow, get the best you can afford, it will prove the cheapest in the end. Men ...
— Our Deportment - Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society • John H. Young
... very existence, in some cases, depends upon trees, are innumerable. What, for example, would become of the larvae of the cicada, or locust, which, in the cold and darkness of their subterranean life, for seventeen years suck the juicy roots of trees; or the caterpillars of the moths, spinning high their webs among the leaves; or the countless beetles whose grubs bore through and through the trunk their sinuous, ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe
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