And it resounded with the notes of the male Kokila and of the shrill cicala.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

The sound of the river and of the cicala is all the noise we hear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference

The rose-scented hush was torn by the strident, cicala-like shrilling of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Again] Reference

Presently we come upon the first vineyard, and hear the shrill cry of the first cicala.    From Wordnik.com.  [Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys] Reference

cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the Muse and song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference

The word "cigales," though really identical with our word "cicala," seldom means the same thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn] Reference

A silence fell upon the party, so profound that the cicala in the dry hedge shrilled to pierce the ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference

The breeze had died away; and only an occasional breath from the deep-chested woods, more like a long sigh than any articulate sound, or the dry singing of a cicala in the heated canyon, were to be heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Argonauts] Reference

No one could have known better than Tennyson that the cicala is loudest in the torrid calm of the noonday, as Theocritus, Virgil, Byron and innumerable other poets have noticed; at last he altered it, but at the heavy price of a cumbrous pleonasm, into "and the winds are dead".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference

The very cicala laughs, "There goes he, and there!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference

Nor yet cicala dared carouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Browning's Heroines] Reference

Nor yet cicala dared carouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions] Reference

'Tis a match of frog against cicala! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference

Where the baked cicala dies of drouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference

Hid the cicala, freedom's golden sign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays] Reference

Where the bak’d cicala dies of drouth.    From Wordnik.com.  ["De Gustibus-"] Reference

For ne'er cicala trilled so sweet a song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference

What would the dry cicala know of noontide?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Immovable First Part] Reference

Here his love-song the mailed cicala sings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Poetical Works] Reference

Rests like a shadow, and the cicala sleeps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference

Aegilus, for thou vanquishest the cicala in song!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference

“Brown cicala drily proses.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Remember]