cicala

Example Sentences

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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

Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a rattle.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles

What would the dry cicala know of noontide?

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

—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

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 Knight, Edward Frederick