cicala
Americannoun
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cicalas,
plural
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cicale
plural
noun
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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
Glow-worms and fireflies gleamed like diamonds among the foliage, and outside was heard the splashing of the tiny waves and the shrill cry of the cicala.
From A Desperate Voyage by Edward Frederick Knight
He seemed to ask for nothing better than to stroll through orange groves, or lie under some spreading fig-tree, drowsily soothed by the song of the vine-dresser, or the unwearied chirp of the cicala.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever
—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
What would the dry cicala know of noontide?
From Life Immovable First Part by Aristides E. (Aristides Evangelus) Phoutrides
I, with none beside, Save hoarse cicalas shrilling through the brake, Still track your footprints 'neath the broiling sun.
From The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil
Homer never describes her beauty; we only see it reflected in the eyes of the old men, white and weak, thin-voiced as cicalas: but hers is a loveliness “to turn an old man young.”
From Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang
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
Others sing in sharp high voices hopping about continually, like cicalas in delirium.
From Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti
The call of bird voices echoes through the shade; some shrill and piping and not unmelodious, others harsh, half human, almost menacing; the screech of cicalas too, loud, vibrant, distressing to overwrought and weakened nerves.
From Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford
A dry cicale chirps to a lass making hay, "Why creak'st thou, Tithonus?" quoth she.
From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
The sound of the river and of the cicale is all the noise we hear.
From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Robert Browning
A dry cicale chirps to a lass making hay, “Why creak’st thou, Tithonus?” quoth she.
From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn
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
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
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