Cicala

Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a rattle. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then the LUCCIOLA, the fire-fly of Tuscany, was seen to flash its sudden sparks among the foliage, while the cicala, with its shrill note, became more clamorous than even during the noon-day heat, loving best the hour when the English beetle, with less offensive sound, winds ❋ Unknown (2004)

Already a blast of heat was rising over the land and the rasping cries of the cicala fretted their talk; and Caterina bade him follow her down into the _voto_ -- the vast, cool, underground chambers which, for the patricians of Cyprus, made life possible during this heated term, between the freshness of the morning and the comfort of the evening shadows. ❋ Lawrence Turnbull (N/A)

And it resounded with the notes of the male Kokila and of the shrill cicala. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

It resembles the flitting of some gipsy, or rather it reminds me of an engraving in a book of fables I owned in my childhood: the whole thing is exactly like the slender wardrobe and the long guitar which the cicala who had sung all the summer, carried upon her back when she knocked at the door of her neighbor the ant. ❋ Various (N/A)

The sound of the river and of the cicala is all the noise we hear. ❋ Unknown (1907)

The complaint of the cicala, torn away by shepherds from its harmless green life of song and dew among the leaves, and the poem bidding the blackbird leave the dangerous oak, where, with its breast against a spray, it pours out its clear music, [9] are probably of ❋ Anonymous (1902)

You are to hear a voice that puts to silence all others, as the trumpet the flute, as the cicala the bee, as the choir the tuning-fork. ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1895)

After my first night under the stars -- wondrous night of wakefulness and hopeful music, throughout which I lay entranced at the foot of a wooded hill and was never for a moment uncompanioned by nightingale, cicala and firefly -- I began to suffer from footsoreness, a bodily affliction against which romance, that certain salve for the maladies of the soul, is no remedy, or very little. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

A silence fell upon the party, so profound that the cicala in the dry hedge shrilled to pierce the ear. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

I owned in my childhood: the whole thing is exactly like the slender wardrobe and the long guitar which the cicala who had sung all the summer, carried upon her back when she knocked at the door of her neighbor the ant. ❋ Pierre Loti (1886)

[247] For is it not as though he had said, I am a mystical cicala, my soul, my spirit, my thoughts, all the faculties that are collected within me, are organ pipes. ❋ 1567-1622 (1884)

May the fallows be broken for the seed-time, while the cicala, watching the shepherds as they toil in the sun, in the shade of the trees doth sing on the topmost sprays. ❋ 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus (1878)

Why, he that deems himself as sure of getting the better of his neighbour as thou dost, a wasp that buzzes against the cicala. ❋ 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus (1878)

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the Muse and song. ❋ 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus (1878)

The word "cigales," though really identical with our word "cicala," seldom means the same thing. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

Presently we come upon the first vineyard, and hear the shrill cry of the first cicala. ❋ Unknown (1873)

His voice was sad as it fell on the stillness of Arezzo -- Arezzo who had seen the dead gods come and go, and the old faiths rise and fall, there where the mule trod its patient way and the cicala sang its summer song above the place where the temple of the Bona Dea and the Church of ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)