Cigale

Everything seems to prove that the burrow of the Cigale is a waiting-room, a meteorological station, in which the larva makes a prolonged stay; sometimes hoisting itself to the neighbourhood of the surface in order to ascertain the external climate; sometimes retiring to the depths the better to shelter itself.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Adult or larva, the Cigale is a strict vegetarian.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Their life, private and public, is lived under his eyes; but the Cigale is a stranger to the haunts of Jack Rabbit.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The three sinuous female nudes in the back of the middle room at the Met—"In Memoriam," "La Cigale" and "The Little Round Mirror" all from 1901—are vampish knock-outs.

From the Shadows of Giants Richard B. Woodward 2011

A bientot la Cigale -- Greetings from the Front_ -- and like nonsense, denoting not only a homesick heart, but a delicate attention towards a well beloved.

With Those Who Wait Frances Wilson Huard

Russia or the Russians, and yet I am as sure of the absolute truth of that unfortunate doctor in "La Cigale," who builds up his heroic life of self-sacrifice while his wife seeks selfishly elsewhere for a hero, as I am convinced of the essential unreality, except in dialect and manners, of the detectives, the

Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919

Its interior is fascinating, with a low hall and fine old oak stairway, broad and shallow; a bit of quaint French glass let into the staircase window bears an illustrated version of La Fourmi et la Cigale.

The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

In 1876, a Felibrean club, “La Cigale,” was founded in the capital; its first president was Henri de Bornier, author of La Fille de Roland.

Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901

_Cigale_ -- that was her name, painted on the stern-board; but there was nothing to show her port or the flag she flew.

Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 Talbot Baines Reed 1872

As for me, the joy I should have felt at finding myself free and at sea was damped by the news of the loss of the _Cigale_, and with it, of my father and Tim.

Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 Talbot Baines Reed 1872