cicala
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Origin of cicala
< Italian < Latin cicāda cicada
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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
—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 Reynolds, Myra
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
There is nothing which indicates that he cares for nature in any of its phases, and he calls the cicala a locust.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
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 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
I am thinking how often we have sat in the colonnade before our beautiful house, when the fountain splashed in the garden and the cicalas chirped in the trees.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix
Gradually, as we advanced further up the green channel, the perfumes became more penetrating, and the monotonous chirp of the cicalas swelled out like an orchestral crescendo.
From Madame Chrysantheme by Loti, Pierre
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 Loti, Pierre
On shadowy boughs the brown cicalas kept their chattering toil.
From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
But when the cicalas had hushed their chirping, all were mustered again for supper; and having blithely feasted, they all addressed them to song and dance.
From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
A dry cicale chirps to a lass making hay, "Why creak'st thou, Tithonus?" quoth she.
From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)
The sound of the river and of the cicale is all the noise we hear.
From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Browning, Robert
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 Macaulay, Rose, Dame
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 Hearn, Lafcadio
From the adjoining room the faint, monotonous click of billiard balls, languidly played, came at intervals like the dry notes of cicale in the bushes.
From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Harte, Bret
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