cicala
Example Sentences
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The blue campanula of the mountain in reverence bowed its head; the great white lily distilled incense from its deep heart; the cicala shrilled aloud; the Forsaken Bird gave a long note from the thicket.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace
A cicala hidden in the heart of a pomegranate flower sang shrilly now and again.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace
He seemed to ask for nothing better than to stroll through orange groves, or lie under some spreading fig-tree, drowsily soothed by the song of the vine-dresser, or the unwearied chirp of the cicala.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James
Late August or early September, the stunning cicala is shrill And the bees keep their tiresome whine round the resinous firs on the hill.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
A cicala in the grass outside began his evening note of challenge.
From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.
