Sentences with phrase «plague of locusts»

Undeterred by plagues of locusts and the infernal heat, Emma Sloley escapes a scorching summer on a drive through the Snowy Mountains in southeastern Australia

The increased moisture could trigger plagues of locusts in Africa, just as the odd wet year does now.

Almost all the wars are from Judaism, Islam and Christianity... You seldom see Buddhist plagues of locusts!

The «heavenly,» golden - hued, contented, and idyllic days of the drifters, who have found salvation on the wheat farm, are shattered with the discovered revelation of the real nature of the relationship between the brother and sister, and an accompanying plague of locusts and fire (typical of Old Testament judgments).

Michigan has teensy windows of convertible opportunity, sandwiched between bouts of bone - numbing cold, torrential downpours, tornado season, occasional plagues of locusts, and the typical summer's blazing, breath - sucking heat.

Digital technology has descended on modern society like an Old Testament plague of locusts.

FEB. 3: Visits Jon Stewart's The Daily Show on Comedy Central and jokes he plans to send a plague of locusts to New York's ritzy Upper East Side, whose residents complained of slow snow removal.

«Has such a thing [as a plague of locusts wrought by God] happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors?»

The fifth trumpet brings a plague of locusts, reminiscent of Joel (9:1 - 11).

The prophet Joel is mainly concerned with a plague of locusts, but in his third chapter he pictures the final war:

They don't exactly have the same ring to them... and yet they are there, tucked between stories about animals and arks (and the mass destruction of mankind), burning bushes and plagues of locusts (and the death of first - born children), stairways to heaven and colorful robes (and men with multiple wives).

What's best is that the AKB's will be back like a plague of locusts JustaArsenal will change it's name to «JustAKB's»

May your 2015 be filled with joy and silverware and may your enemies be smitten by a plague of locusts followed by an eruption of boils.

The cumulative effect of the messages of Remain's Project Fear — recession, rising interest rates, falling house prices, war, plagues of locusts (not yet; next week maybe)-- is to reinforce a single message: leaving is far too risky.

Obama should have gotten into the Moses act — riffing how Republicans, as repped by Bush and McCain, are like unto a plague of locusts.

In 1904 a plague of locusts «filled the trenches faster than they could be shoveled,» Pumpelly wrote, and plunged the area into famine, forcing him to abandon the dig.

Your disease did not «drop into your lap» like a plague of locusts, it took time to develop and for many different reasons.

What follows is an Old Testament story that ends the drifters heavenly days on the farm, as the wheat - fields are taken over by a plague of locusts, a fire rampages through the prairie and a fight until death between the suspicious farmer and the hot - tempered Bill occurs after the hustler was observed touching the farmer's wife in not such a brotherly way.

What follows is an Old Testament story that ends the drifters heavenly days on the farm, as the wheat - fields are taken over by a plague of locusts, a fire rampages through the

An even more complex layer to the story comes towards the end, in which a plague of locusts attack the grain and the farm is burned to the ground in order to save it.

Three and a half thousand years later: disastrous storms and floods, epidemics, epizootic diseases and plagues of locusts, poisoned lakes and dying rivers it might appear as if the Biblical plagues were returning in the twenty - first century.

In these dialogue - free opening scenes, set to a score that buzzes like a plague of locusts, There Will Be Blood establishes itself as a film of Darwinian ferocity, a stark and pitiless parable of American capitalism.

Thanks to Malvo's Old Testament - tinged blackmail of God - fearing supermarket tsar Stavros Milos (which includes loosing a plague of locusts on his store and bathing him in pig's blood), we finally find out what happened to the briefcase full of cash that, in the film, was buried in the snow.

It's entirely possible to prepare the LR4 for anything short of a plague of locusts with just a few taps of the finger and the twist of a wrist.

She is the serpent, and Eve, the temptress; she is the femme fatale, the insect in the ointment, the hidden cancer, the chronic sickness, the plague of locusts, the cause of drought, the poisoned water.

Liability coverage defends you against the army of lawyers who will descend upon you like a plague of locusts.

we've also seen foreclosures like a plague of locusts.

It runs away from the spiders as from a plague of locusts.

Woolf noted that the short form requires the author to narrow to the essential and not to be the «voice which is as a plague of locusts — the voice of a man stumbling drowsily among loose words, clutching aimlessly at vague ideas...» Id.

Liability coverage defends you against the army of lawyers who will descend upon you like a plague of locusts.