cicala

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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

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

From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace

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

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

The sound of the river and of the cicala is all the noise we hear.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir