cicala

Example Sentences

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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

What would the dry cicala know of noontide?

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

Till 1884 this was allowed to stand:—   The lizard, with his shadow on the stone,   Rests like a shadow, and the cicala sleeps.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton

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 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