...Cicada.—Of the Homoptera, the onewhich will most frequently arrest attention is the cicada, which,resting high up on the bark of a tree, makes the forest re-echowith a long-sustained noise so curiously resembling that of acutler's wheel that the creature producing it has acquired thehighly-appropriate name of the "knife-grinder."...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...The young bird struggled valiantly with the cicada,but made no headway in swallowing it,when the mother took it from him and flew tothe sidewalk, and proceeded to break and bruiseit more thoroughly...
John Burroughs 「Bird Stories from Burroughs」
...Limbus: the area along the outer and posterior marginof wing beyond the closed cells; Homoptera, Cicada...
John. B. Smith 「Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology」
...Wing venation of a Cicada...
John. B. Smith 「Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology」
..., fifteen miles distantfrom here, went barefooted into his garden a few days since, and whilethere was stung or bitten in the foot by a Cicada...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...It is a specimen of game which I have justintroduced, a Cicada, a luscious morsel...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Head first, the Cicada dives into the abyss, down which the spoilerdrags her by successive jerks...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...The strident scrapings of the Cicada of the Ash, the Carcan of the district, lend their rhythm to the one note symphony of the common cicada...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Its true name is cicada, and its shrill midsummer song has been famousfrom the beginning of time...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
...You think cicada has a very broad back...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
...If you look full in the face of a cicada, you can see the three littleround ocelli between the compound eyes...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
...Our cicada has one organ that is very interesting; it is the littleapparatus by which it sings...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
...See John's eyestwinkling! I believe—yes, he has! He has brought us the cast-off skinof a cicada to look at...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
...Amy says she has seen these little cicada shells hundreds of times butdid not know what they were...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
...It is the desperate wail of the Cicada,surprised in his quietude by the Green Grasshopper, that ardentnocturnal huntress, who springs upon him, grips him in the side, opensand ransacks his abdomen...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...This perhapsis why, on catching the Cicada, she first rips up his paunch, whichsupplies a mixture of flesh and preserves...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...As emblematic of this origin they wore in their hairthe golden forms of the cicada, or locust, oftenimproperlycalled grasshopper, which was believed to spring from theearth...
Marcius Willson 「Mosaics of Grecian History」
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