cicale
- plural of cicala.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Thus we floated down the widening stream of the Po, sleeping when the cicale sang, awake with the stars.
From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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 Dowden, Edward
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
