cicala

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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 Lever, Charles James

What would the dry cicala know of noontide?

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

Brown cicala drily proses,       Creaking the hot air to sleep,     Bounteous orange flowers and roses,       Yield the wealth of love they keep,   To the sun's imperious ardour in a dream of fragrance deep.

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus

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

From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace

—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