cicala

Example Sentences

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He lounged through the deserted garden, or lay, half-dreamily, in the long, deep grass, listening to the cicala, or watching the emerald-backed lizards as they lay basking in the sun.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

A silence fell upon the party, so profound that the cicala in the dry hedge shrilled to pierce the ear.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

A cicala hidden in the heart of a pomegranate flower sang shrilly now and again.

From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace

They had not gone far from the capital ere they plunged into a deep, dark, silent forest—silent save for the strangely monotonous song of the cicala, and so for miles, and so for many leagues.

From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Stables, Gordon

What would the dry cicala know of noontide?

From Life Immovable First Part by Phoutrides, Aristides E. (Aristides Evangelus)