 | 1834 - 810 sider
...Berber to Shendy in the Black countries ; and in the spring of that same year I had seen whole flights of them in Upper Egypt, where they are particularly...Arabs accordingly say that they are produced by the waters of the Persian Gulf. The province of Nedjd is particularly exposed to their ravages; they overwhelm... | |
 | 1834 - 394 sider
...Berber to Shendy in the Black countries ; and in the spring of that same year I had seen whole flights of them in Upper Egypt, where they are particularly...Arabs accordingly say that they are produced by the waters of the Persian Gulf. The province of Nedjd is particularly exposed to their ravages ; they overwhelm... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 sider
...The following observations of Burckhardt form a suitable conclusion to this sketch of the locust " In Arabia the locusts are known to come invariably...Arabs accordingly say that they are produced by the waters of the Persian Gulf. The province of Nedjed is particularly exposed to their ravages; they overwhelm... | |
 | Four little wise ones - 1853 - 456 sider
...Berber to Shendy, in the Black Countries ; and in the spring of that same year, I had seen whole flights of them in Upper Egypt, where they are particularly...to the palm-trees. These they strip of every leaf or green particle, the trees remaining like skeletons with bare branches. In Arabia the locusts are... | |
 | James Covel - 1853 - 560 sider
...Berber to Shendy in the black countries ; and in the spring of that same year, he saw whole flights of them in Upper Egypt, where they are particularly injurious to the palm trees. These they strip of every leaf and green particle ; the trees remaining like skeletons... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1882 - 632 sider
...even trees, that suffer. " They are particularly injurious to the palm-trees," says Burckhardt ; " these they strip of every leaf and green particle,...trees remaining like skeletons, with bare branches." (в) They shall fill thy houses.—" They shall ran to and fro in the city," says the prophet Joel... | |
 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1885 - 460 sider
...hemp, notwithstanding its great bitterness." ""They are particularly injurious to the palm trees ; these they strip of every leaf and green particle,...trees remaining like skeletons with bare branches." " * The bushes were eaten quite bare, though the animals could not have been long on the spot. —... | |
 | Sir George Adam Smith - 1898 - 582 sider
...bark of figs, pomegranates and oranges, bitter, hard and corrosive, escaped not their voracity." 6 " They are particularly injurious to the palmtrees ;...trees remaining like skeletons with bare branches." * " For eighty or ninety miles they devoured every green herb and every blade of grass." 7 " The gardens... | |
 | Samuel Rolles Driver, Charles Augustus Briggs - 1911 - 592 sider
...Constitutional, May, 1841, of locusts in Spain in that year. "They are particularly injurious to the palm trees; these they strip of every leaf and green particle,...trees remaining like skeletons with bare branches." — Burckhardt, Notes, II, p. 90. "The country did not seem to be burnt, but to be covered with snow,... | |
 | John Merlin Powis Smith, William Hayes Ward, Julius August Bewer - 1911 - 592 sider
...Constitutional, May, 1841, of locusts in Spain in that year. "They are particularly injurious to the palm trees; these they strip of every leaf and green particle,...trees remaining like skeletons with bare branches." — Burckhardt, Notes, II, p. 90. "The country did not seem to be burnt, but to be covered with snow,... | |
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Egypt, where they are particularly injurious to the palm-trees. These they strip of every leaf and green particle, the trees remaining like skeletons with bare branches. In Arabia the locusts are known to come invariably from the East, and the Arabs accordingly... 
