5 adjectives to describe cicadas

In the patio of the comfortable little hotel we heard the cicadas; but I did not hear the extraordinary screaming whistle of the locomotive cicada, which I had heard in the gardens of the house in which I stayed at Asuncion.

chirr! of a myriad cicadas filled the air, and the white road glistened in the dazzling sunlight.

A bird seizes a noisy cicada from a sunny leaf, and as it flies away the captive draws out one long scream of despair.

A wealth of elm and poplar shook o'erhead; Hard by, a sacred spring flowed gurgling on From the Nymphs' grot, and in the sombre boughs The sweet cicada chirped laboriously.

Yet, in the year of grace, 1919, under a blazing September sun, with a cicada, vagrant from heaven knows whence, frying his sizzling sausages in our lilac bush, and other equally insistent sounds of reality filling the air, my ears were smitten with a voice from the realm of wraiths.

5 adjectives to describe  cicadas