 | 1892 - 624 ページ
...the water vessels. Major Moore describes a cloud of locusts extending over 500 miles, and so compact on the wing that, like an eclipse, it completely hid the sun. Such are the judicial visitations of Divine Providence upon the godless nations of the earth, the devouring... | |
 | Samuel Rolles Driver - 1897 - 268 ページ
...sky. Speaking of a ' column of locusts," which appeared in India, a writer says, ' it was so compact that, like an eclipse, it completely hid the sun ;...shadow was cast by any object, and some lofty tombs, not more than 200 yards distant, were rendered quite invisible' (ap. Kirby on Entomology, Letter VI.).... | |
 | 1898 - 274 ページ
...sky. Speaking of a ' column of locusts,' which appeared in India, a writer says, ' it was so compact that, like an eclipse, it completely hid the sun;...shadow was cast by any object, and some lofty tombs, not more than 200 yards distant, were rendered quite invisible' (ap. Kirby on Entomology, Letter v1.).... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 716 ページ
...describes an immense army of these animals which ravaged the Mahratta country: "The column they composed extended five hundred miles; and so compact was it...the sun, so that no shadow was cast by any object." Brown, in his travels in Africa, states that an area of nearly two thousand square miles was literally... | |
 | 1823 - 434 ページ
...given me by a friend of mine long resident in India, where he informs me, the column they composed extended five hundred miles ; and so compact was it...by any object ; and some lofty tombs distant from bis residence not more than two hundred yards were rendered quite invisible. Dr. Clarke, to give some... | |
 | Samuel Rolles Driver - 1897 - 268 ページ
...sky. Speaking of a ' column of locusts,' which appeared in India, a writer says, ' it was so compact that, like an eclipse, it completely hid the sun;...shadow was cast by any object, and some lofty tombs, not more than 200 yards distant, were rendered quite invisible' (ap. Kirby on Entomology, Letter v1.... | |
 | H. C. O. Lanchester - 1915 - 268 ページ
...sky. Speaking of a ' column of locusts,' which appeared in India, a writer says, "it was so compact that, like an eclipse, it completely hid the sun;...shadow was cast by any object, and some lofty tombs, not more than 200 yards distant, were rendered quite invisible" (ap. Kirby on Entomology, Letter VI.).... | |
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The column they composed, my friend was informed, extended five hundred miles; and so compact was it, when on the wing, that, like an eclipse, it completely hid the sun, so that no shadow was cast by any object, and some lofty tombs distant from his residence... 
