 | Thomas Shaw - Africa, North - 1757 - 590 pages
...into our very houfes and bedchambers, like J'o many thieves. The inhabitants, to flop their progrefs, made a variety of pits and trenches, all over their...fields and gardens, which they filled with water ; or elfe they heaped up therein heath, flubble, and fuch like combuftible matter, which were feverally... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 624 pages
...houses, devouring every vegetable that was in their way. The inhabitants, to stop their progress, formed trenches all over their fields and gardens, which they filled with water. Some placed large quantities of heath, stubble, and other combustible matter in rows, and set them... | |
 | Thomas Shaw - Africa, North - 1808 - 516 pages
...likewise, the fig-tree, the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple tree — even all the trees of the fald, Joel i. 12. In doing which, they kept their ranks...heath, stubble, and such like combustible matter, which were severally set on fire upon the approach of the locusts. But this was all to no purpose ; for the... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1809 - 544 pages
...palm, and the apple tree, «*>/» all the trees of the field, Joel i. 12. In doing which, they keep their ranks like men of war, climbing over, as they...heath, stubble, and such like combustible matter, which were severally set on fire upon the approach of the locusts But this was all to no purpose, for the... | |
 | George Barrington - Canary Islands - 1810 - 512 pages
...houses, devouring every vegetable that was in their way. The inhabitants, to stop their progress, formed trenches all over their fields and gardens, which they filled with water. Some placed large quantities of heath, stubble, and other combustible matter in rows, and set them... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1814 - 886 pages
...into our very houfes and bed-chambers, likeyô many thieves. The inhabitants to flop their progrefs, made a variety of pits and trenches all over their...fields and gardens, which they filled with water ; or elfe they heaped up therein heath, nubble, and fuch like combuftible matter, which were feverally fet... | |
 | Arminianism - 1813 - 998 pages
...but the vine likewise, the fig-tree, the pomegranate, the palm, and the appletree, even all the roots of the field, Joel i. 12. In doing which, they kept...and gardens, which they filled with water, or else heaped up therein, heath, stubble, and such like combustible matter, which were severally set on fire... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...by raising large clouds of smoke, but frequently their herbs and wet straw fail them ; they then dig a variety of pits and trenches, all over their fields and gardens, which they fill with water, or with heath, stubble, and other combustible matter, which they set on fire upon... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1826 - 638 pages
...a complete desolation. The inhahitants to stop their progress, made a variety of pits and treuclies all over their fields and gardens, which they filled with water, or else heaped up therein heath, stubble, &c. which they set on fire, hut to no purpose ; for the trenches... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1824 - 604 pages
...every tree or wall that was in their way ; nay, they entered in our very houses and bed-chambers like thieves. The inhabitants, to stop their progress,...heath, stubble, and such like combustible matter, which were severally set on fire upon the approach of the locusts. But this was all to no purpose, for the... | |
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... thieves. The inhabitants, to stop their progress, made a variety of pits and trenches all over their fields and gardens, which they filled with water; or else they heaped up therein heath, stubble, and such like combustible matter, which were severally... 
