Sentences with phrase «locusts calling»

When I heard the late summer locusts calling, my eager anticipation began of meeting my teacher and, yes, learning new things.

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Deutsche Boerse's Chief Executive Werner Seifert once called TCI's Chris Hohn the leader of a swarm of locusts in a book about the exchange's battle with the hedge fund.

Thus in English we call an animal of the locust kind a grasshopper; the French name of which is souterelle, from the verb sauter, to leap» — Parkhurst.

They have been eaten in Africa, Greece, Syria, Persia, and throughout Asia; and whole tribes seem to have lived on them, and were hence called acridophagoi, or locust - eaters by the Greeks.

2 Chronicles 7:13 - 14 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Although the word locust usually calls to mind plagues of biblical proportions, these insects actually start out as shy, solitary creatures.

Some entomologists describe thisphenomenon as «cultural»: The mother locust supplies her eggs with aheavier dose of nutrients and a chemical — called a maternal gregarizingagent — that encourage her offspring to develop toward the gregarious endof its potential.

The device was created using extremely high - speed flash photography to track the way smoke particles flow over a locust's wings in a wind tunnel — a technique called particle flow velocimetry.

A new online mode called «horde» was also unveiled, allowing up to five players to take on locusts.

There's really nothing like completely immersing yourself in the game - calling out positions, communicating, and working together to flank a pack of locust; it's just a truly rewarding and fun experience.

«Bauhaus, Dessau,» taken from a photograph taken by the artist of a stairway in the Weimar - era school with the human figures entirely removed, serves as a chilling reminder of the effects of authoritarianism, globalism, right - wing populism and what the gallery calls «the locusts of power.»