Newspaper results for grasshoppers

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100959 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (3749 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

1. Daily National Intelligencer — 1816-11-22, page 2

   … Bonaparte landed in France .imy, skipped aw ay from Paris like without any so many’ grasshoppers? (a laugh, and hear, hear.) is it possible not to compare the circumstance of Englislmenreceiving …

2. Daily National Intelligencer — 1818-01-08, page 3

   … said, if you walk through a mea dow, in which there are fifty bullocks and fifty grasshoppers, you will find the grass hoppers make the most noise. This was the case with the …

3. Daily National Intelligencer — 1818-02-20, page 3

   … support a family—accordingly they marry young, and multiply and co ver the earth like grasshoppers. They are classed in the denomination of pa gan, but some of their habits and cus …

4. Daily National Intelligencer — 1819-12-07, page 2

   … that the Spaniards found, near St. Martha, several baskets full of crabs, snails, grasshoppers, and locusts, which proved to be the ordinary provision of the natives. This the …

5. Daily National Intelligencer — 1820-12-04, page 3

   … probably gather four thousand bushels, and four to five thousand of the latter. Grasshoppers appeared in myri ads the last week in August, and stripped the turnips of their …

6. Daily National Intelligencer — 1821-04-04, page 2

   … thousands from other states but, before that Congress, this multi tude were as grasshoppers, and their noise was as the chirping of grasshoppers. The honorable gentleman informs us, that the grass hoppers in the field make more …

   … will bray more noise in a minute than could be made in the same time by all the grasshoppers that ever hopped. Believe me, it was an egregious error to mistake the voice of …

   … the people for the chirping of grasshoppers. The honorable gentleman thinks that most of us must have been too young in '9B …

7. Daily National Intelligencer — 1821-06-27, page 3

   … whole of the vegeta tion in his neighborhood had been destroyed by catterpillars, grasshoppers, and other insects, ob served that the Elder remained untouched, in full health …

8. Daily National Intelligencer — 1821-06-28, page 2

   … carve. For singing all summer, all winter they starve !f The Athenians wore golden Grasshoppers in their hair, conceiving that they both sprung from the same earth they inhabited …

9. Daily National Intelligencer — 1823-08-01, page 2

   … proceeds from the male cicada alone. Hence the witticism of Xenarchus—“ Are not the grasshoppers happy in having dumb wives?” Virgil has bestowed upon them the epithets, querulx …

10. Daily National Intelligencer — 1826-07-28, page 3

    … Washington, Estp was unanimously elected.”— Dem. Press, Portsmouth, N. IL July 22.— Grasshoppers. We are informed by a gentleman of undoubted veracity, who saw the spoil, that …

    … be tween the hours of eight and twelve o’clock, five bushels and three pecks of grasshoppers His mode ot catching them was by attaching two sheets together, and fastening them …

    … to raise the back, part of the sheet considerably from the ground,- so that the grasshoppers could notescape. After running the drag about a dozen rods with rapidi ty, tlnrbraces …

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