There was something beyond prettiness in it; something of a spring morning in the cyclades, when the other islands come up out of the mist like hummocks of amethyst and the cicadas shrill in the long grass under the almond trees.
"Command"
William McFee
These reptiles are seldom found in islands, yet Tenos, one of the cyclades, was supposed to have once swarmed with them.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant
With a touch of imagination the scene had become a prospect of the cyclades, the lighthouse a column to Aphrodite or the twin brothers of Helen.
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch