cicala

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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

There is nothing which indicates that he cares for nature in any of its phases, and he calls the cicala a locust.

From Critical Studies by Ouida

Looking to the south all the trees were green in the fullness of summer, and the day cicala and the night cricket chirruped loudly.

From Japanese Fairy Tales by Ozaki, Yei Theodora

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

—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 Reynolds, Myra