cicala
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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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
Thyrsis, let honey and the honeycomb Fill thy sweet mouth, and figs of Ægilus: For ne'er cicala trilled so sweet a song.
From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus
Not a sound to be heard, save the incessant motion of the fan, which is, to this season, what is the cicala to the hot hour of noon.
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
Glow-worms and fireflies gleamed like diamonds among the foliage, and outside was heard the splashing of the tiny waves and the shrill cry of the cicala.
From A Desperate Voyage by Edward Frederick Knight
—With thee to lead me, O Day of mine, Down the grass path gray with dew,210 Under the pine-wood, blind with boughs, Where the swallow never flew Nor yet cicala dared carouse— No, dared carouse!
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
On shadowy boughs the brown cicalas kept their chattering toil.
From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
In the vast flood of midday sunshine, to the quivering noise of the cicalas, I mount to Diou-djen-dji.
From Madame Chrysantheme — Complete by Pierre Loti
The cicalas helped the heat; and the yelling jackals the cicalas.
From Life's Handicap by Rudyard Kipling
The frogs were singing vespers in the ditches, the sharp chorus of the cicalas shrilled on all sides.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
The frogs and cicalas had nearly finished their nightly music.
From At Last by Charles Kingsley
Close to her ear a cicale chirped, monotonously bright; far off, from every hill, the frogs began their evening singing.
From What Not A Prophetic Comedy by Dame Rose Macaulay
We visited Lebanon, and in its grove reposed under the few remaining cedars, listened to the cry of the cicale, and watched the birds of brilliant plumage flitting from branch to branch.
From Glories of Spain by Charles W. (William) Wood
A dry cicale chirps to a lass making hay, "Why creak'st thou, Tithonus?" quoth she.
From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
Thus we floated down the widening stream of the Po, sleeping when the cicale sang, awake with the stars.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We have a row of plane trees before the door in which the cicale sing all day, and the beautiful mountains stand close around, keeping us fresh with shadows.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
