cicala
Americannoun
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cicalas,
plural
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cicale
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cicala
< Italian < Latin cicāda cicada
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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 Thomas Adolphus Trollope
A cicala hidden in the heart of a pomegranate flower sang shrilly now and again.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James
—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 Myra Reynolds
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 Charles James Lever
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 Yei Theodora Ozaki
Needless to say that the cicalas around us keep up their perpetual sonorous chirping.
From Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti
For instance, the swallows sing at morn, the cicalas at noon, the night-owl late in the dark, the screech-owl at even, the horned-owl at midnight, the cock before the dawn.
From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Harold Edgeworth Butler
The frogs and cicalas had nearly finished their nightly music.
From At Last by Charles Kingsley
In the vast flood of midday sunshine, to the quivering noise of the cicalas, I mount to Diou- djen-dji.
From Madame Chrysantheme — Volume 4 by Pierre Loti
In the vast flood of midday sunshine, to the quivering noise of the cicalas, I mount to Diou-djen-dji.
From Madame Chrysantheme — Complete by Pierre Loti
A dry cicale chirps to a lass making hay, "Why creak'st thou, Tithonus?" quoth she.
From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
Close to her ear a cicale chirped, monotonously bright; far off, from every hill, the frogs began their evening singing.
From What Not A Prophetic Comedy by Dame Rose Macaulay
Their house among the hills was shut in by a row of plane-trees in which by day the cicale were shrill; at evening fireflies lit up their garden.
From Robert Browning by Edward Dowden
We have a row of plane trees before the door in which the cicale sing all day, and the beautiful mountains stand close around, keeping us fresh with shadows.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
Thus we floated down the widening stream of the Po, sleeping when the cicale sang, awake with the stars.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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