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In the vast flood of midday sunshine, to the quivering noise of the cicalas, I mount up to Diou-djen-dji.

From Madame Chrysantheme by Loti, Pierre

Others sing in sharp high voices hopping about continually, like cicalas in delirium.

From Madame Chrysantheme by Loti, Pierre

"But we do miss the lizards and the cicalas," they would say with a sigh.

From The Tragic Bride by Young, Francis Brett

The cicalas whirred in the foliage of the oleanders, and a brown owl screamed in its shikarring flight over the roof of the house.

From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.

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)