Locust Sentence Examples

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  • There were locust plagues in 1874, 1876 and 1877.

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  • Be at the corner of Locust and Ninth in 20 min­utes or I'm a dead man!

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  • Of an opposite class is the locust.

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  • Of insects Africa has many thousand different kinds; of these the locust is the proverbial scourge of the continent, and the ravages of the termites or white ants are almost incredible.

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  • In the north of the country, however, farmers face a further threat from locust swarms.

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  • Robinia Pseud-acacia, or false acacia, is cultivated in the milder parts of Britain, and forms a large tree, with beautiful pea-like blossoms. The tree is sometimes called the locust tree.

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  • But in most parts of the state there are mixed forests of white oak, red oak, ash, red gum, black gum, maple, hickory, chestnut, sycamore, magnolia, tulip tree, cherry, pecan, walnut, elm, beech, locust and persimmon.

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  • Consumers are urged to check the labeling to see which contain the locust bean gum.

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  • Last year's rain shortages and locust invasion severely affected agricultural production and grasslands reserved for cattle.

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  • What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.

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  • The environmental impact of the toxic waste is to create a new breed of more savory locust.

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  • Gleditsia triacanthos L., the honey locust, may be found in cultivation as an ornamental tree.

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  • Of these, black locust has very durable timber.

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  • Black locust, for protection against negative outside influences, including " psychic attack " .

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  • So dense are these " locust clouds " that they sometimes quite darken the air.

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  • The white oak is the most common, but there are thirteen other varieties of oak, six of hickory, five of ash, five of poplar, five of pine, three of elm, three of birch, two of locust and two of cherry.

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  • Look back at the locust in a test tube experiment.

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  • You really have to wonder if we should be looking for a plague of locust to land on his Australian behind before he ever recovers from this little Celebrity Oops.

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  • The common Acacia or Locust Tree (R. pseudoacacia) is of quick growth, hardy, and thrives almost anywhere.

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  • Clammy Locust (Robinia Viscosa) - Smaller than the ordinary False Acacia, but is elegant in foliage and beautiful in flower.

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  • Locust Tree - These tall Lobelias have a great attraction for me, and my experience of their ways may be of use to others.

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  • The black locust tree (Robinia pseudacacia) is a North American native that was introduced to Europe around 1630.

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  • Each asana is named for a common thing it resembles, like the sun salutation, cobra, locust, plough, bow, eagle, tree, and the head to knee pose, to name a few.

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  • Locust bean gum, also known as carob gum, is another viable substitute for xanthan gum.

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  • Locust bean gum is produced from carob seeds that have been dehydrated and heated and then ground into a powder.

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  • However, it's important to remember that no one expects you to know the difference between the Locust Pose and the Camel Pose on your first day!

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  • She was one of twelve children and grew up living with her parents and siblings in a one-room cabin in the Locust Ridge area of the county.

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  • Here we see the rice locust and red dragonfly on bamboo canes with pinks and hibiscus flowers.

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  • There was nothing at Ninth and Locust but a boarded-up storefront and a stillness like the day after the end of the world.

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  • In the American Epicauta vittata the larva is parasitic on the eggs and eggcases of a locust.

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  • Other varieties, most of which are widely distributed, are the ash, pecan, cottonwood, sycamore, elm, maple, hickory, elder, gum, locust and river birch.

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  • Who knows what sort of seventeen-year locust will next come out of the ground?

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  • Fourth and Oak were just as desolate as Ninth and Locust, but as soon as Dean stopped the car, a disheveled figure jumped from the darkness and clawed at the passenger door until Dean reached over and opened it.

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  • The borough is built on the slope of Locust Mountain, about 885 ft.

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  • The commonest and most widely distributed migratory locust is Pachytylus cinerascens.

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  • Hickory, chestnut, locust, maple, beech, dogwood, and pawpaw are widely distributed.

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  • B, Section through compound eye (after Miall and Denny); C, organs of smell in cockchafer; (after Kraepelin); D, a, b, sensory pits on cercopods of golden-eye fly; c, sensory pit on palp of stone-fly (after Packard); E, sensory hair (after Miall and Denny); F, ear of long-horned grasshopper; a, Front shin showing outer opening and air-tube; b, section (after Graber); G, ear of locust from within (after Graber).

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  • Characteristic trees are the locust tree and the stone pine; in Melia Azedarach and Ficus Sycomorus (Beirut) is an admixture of foreign and partially subtropical elements.

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  • The locust bean (used for forage), figs, and peaches are widely grown, while in certain special zones the pistachio and the manna-ash yield rich returns.

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  • Other trees, found chiefly on the plateaus, are the baobab, the shea-butter tree, the locust tree, gambier, palms, including the date and dum palm (Hyphaene), the tamarind, and, in the arid regions, the acacia and mimosa.

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  • I have not heard so much as a locust over the sweet-fern these three hours.

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  • He told himself he didn't give a damn about Locust and Ninth but his mind wouldn't let go.

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  • The most destructive locust is the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), which causes wholesale destruction in the East.

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