seventeen-year locust

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Dear Jack: The seventeen-year locust isn't a locust at all.

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Butterflies have been heard to utter a loud click, and the same is true of many beetles; while the cicada, or seventeen-year locust, utters a most remarkable note or series of sounds.

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If we have had the seven-years' itch, we have not seen the seventeen-year locust yet in Concord.

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If we were threatened with any other direful visitation —influenza, say, or the seventeen-year locust,—I should naturally read up on the subject in order to know what to expect.

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Juan uttered a series of extraordinary whoops, and working his legs like the long limbs of a seventeen-year locust, he dashed to the head of the procession.

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