| James Macknight - 1809 - 544 sider
...retreat was altogether impossible. A day or two after one of these broods were in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark, and the young branches of such trees, as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage. So justly have they... | |
| John Pinkerton - 1814 - 886 sider
...retreat was altogether impoflible. A day or two after one of thefe broods was in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing...juftly have they been compared by the prophet Joel (ii. 30 to a great army; who further obferves, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind... | |
| 1813 - 998 sider
...retreat was altogether impossible. A day or two after one of these broods was in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them ; gnawing off the very bark, and the young branches of such trees as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage. So justly have thev... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 598 sider
...a retreat is altogether impossible. A day or two after one of these broods is in motion, others are already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark, and the young branches of such trees as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage ; so justly have they... | |
| William Carpenter - 1824 - 604 sider
...impossible. A day or two after one of these broods were in motion, others were already hatched to inarch and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark, and the young branches of such trees, as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage. So justly have they... | |
| Frederick William Beechey, Henry William Beechey - 1828 - 696 sider
...retreat was altogether impossible. A day or two after one of these broods was in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark and the young branches of such trees as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage. So justly have they... | |
| 1828 - 580 sider
...retreat was altogether impossible. A day or two after one of these broods were in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark, and the young branches of such trees, as had before escaped with the loss only of tlieir fruit and foliage. So justly have they... | |
| James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 336 sider
...retreat was altogether impossible. A day or two after one of these broods was in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark, and the young branches of such trees as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage. So justly have they... | |
| James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 446 sider
...retreat was altogether impossible. A day or two after one of these broods was in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark and the young branches of such trees as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage. So justly have they... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1833 - 384 sider
...retreat was altogether impossible. A day or Iwo after one of these broods was in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark and the young branches of such trees as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage. So justly have they... | |
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