cicala

Example Sentences

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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

The cicala, too, in the long deep grass, All day sings happily, And I'd venture to swear He has never a care For the odious rule of three.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James

Late August or early September, the stunning cicala is shrill,35 And the bees keep their tiresome whine round the resinous firs on the hill.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

He lounged through the deserted garden, or lay, half-dreamily, in the long, deep grass, listening to the cicala, or watching the emerald-backed lizards as they lay basking in the sun.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

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