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

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 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

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

A cicala in the grass outside began his evening note of challenge.

From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.