cicalas
- plural of cicala.
Example Sentences
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You mark that the sun is high, the heat intense, and the silence unbroken save by the cicalas among the olive-trees.
From The Decameron, Volume I by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
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)
Moths, mosquitoes, cicalas, and other extraordinary insects of which I don't even know the names,—all this company assembles around us.
From Madame Chrysantheme by Loti, Pierre
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
