cicala
Example Sentences
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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
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
You are to hear a voice that puts to silence all others, as the trumpet the flute, as the cicala the bee, as the choir the tuning-fork.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
They had not gone far from the capital ere they plunged into a deep, dark, silent forest—silent save for the strangely monotonous song of the cicala, and so for miles, and so for many leagues.
From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Stables, Gordon
The cicala sang in the flower of the pomegranate, the frog sang by the pond.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace
