What is "locusts"

Usage examples of "locusts".

Wang Lung was furious and he beat the locusts and trampled on them and his men flailed them with flails and the locusts fell into the fires that were kindled and they floated dead upon the waters of the moats that were dug.

Tammy said, as a thousand red-breasted grosbeaks settled like feathery locusts in the trees surrounding the clearing.

Victimized in turn by famine, flood, locusts, and bandits, he knows that only the land endures.

The men of the village watched it and talked of it and fear hung over them, for what they feared was this, that locusts had come out of the south to devour what was planted in the fields.

Then the sky grew black and the air was filled with the deep still roar of many wings beating against each other, and upon the land the locusts fell, flying over this field and leaving it whole, and falling upon that field, and eating it as bare as winter.

Then many of the people ate the roasted bodies of the locusts, but Wang Lung himself would not eat them, for to him they were a filthy thing because of what they had done to his land.

Then Wang Lung forgot his son, for the harvests, except what the locusts had consumed, were fair enough and by now he had gained once more what he had spent on the woman Lotus.

Then sweeping out of the northwest like a swarm of locusts there came one day in early summer a horde of men.

Spare not, young chip, or else, the jackasses in the Australian bush will breed as numerous as the locusts in the African desert.