36 collocations for chirping

By the way, are we retained or assigned by the court?" "Assigned," chirped Tutt.

Simple maiden, void of art, Babbling out the very heart, Yet abandoned to thy will, Yet imagining no ill, Yet too innocent to blush; Like the linnet in the bush, To the mother-linnet's note Moduling her slender throat, Chirping forth thy pretty joys; Wanton in the change of toys, Like the linnet green, in May, Flitting to each bloomy spray; Wearied then, and glad of rest, Like the linnet in the nest.

~The Wife of Some Great Officer Bewails His Absence~ Shrill chirp the insects in the grass; All about the hoppers spring.

A certain harmless singer of the cricket or perhaps of the tree-toad variety used to chirp his innocent note a short distance from our cabin.

A robin with feathers all ruffled, and head hidden, sat on the gate-post, and chirped a little mournful chirp, like a creature dying in a vacuum.

impidentbut I reckon I'll chirp up an' come to it, in time.

"Oh! yes, I've got a hunch that we will," chirped his cousin, with a sublime confidence that quite won Andy's heart; if he could not see any good reason for hope himself, the fact that his chum pinned his faith on it was enough to bolster up his own courage.

Any news?" "No, not a word," chirped little Joe Digby, one of the few lads in the Eagle Patrol who had never run afoul of the bully.

A certain harmless singer of the cricket or perhaps of the tree-toad variety used to chirp his innocent note a short distance from our cabin.

Elsie thought she had conquered him, and chirped out an encouraging, "Come, now, who was it?"

And so home again along the dewy fields, while an orchestra of crickets chirps a happy end beneath the summer stars to the day that is done.

"Mine!" chirped Florette.

" "Oh, yes it is," chirped Mr Goodchum.

The aerial Stranger soon made free, Nor miss'd Apollo's minstrelsy; For chirping Grasshoppers were heard, With dulcet notes of many a Bird That sought at noon the umbrageous glade And softly sung beneath the shade.

"And a nice, lonely sort of place, too, hey?" chirped old Harding; "just the place for a traitor to his country to" "Hush!" said the young officer seriously.

"Good-morning," chirped Hilary, and scrubbed on.

They were always "sure that the weather was getting quite hot," and "it must be summer, for they heard the sparrows chirping every morning the first thing," and they "thought they had seen a swallow," and "the windows got so warm with the sunshine, Nurse declared they were enough to burn one's fingers:" and so the poor little things teazed themselves and everybody else, every year, in their hurry to get back to their western home.

So the French King chirped his senile jests over the card-table, while the King of England was besieging the French city of Rouen sedulously and without mercy.

" "Dear Lady Lambourne, how severe you are!" chirped Babykins.

"I'm taking tango lessons, Ella," chirped Miss Laces.

"Oh, that will be just splendid," chirped Mrs. Lester.

"You will marry Lord Robert now, I suppose," chirped Lisa, "and show Ivor Dundas that he hasn't spoiled your life.

She begged him repeatedly to have some consideration for her comfort, but the Grasshopper, if anything, only chirped the louder.

"Have a good time, young 'uns," chirped the grizzled little man cheerily.

The cricket is chirping the brooklet near, In the water a something stirs, And the wanderer can in the stillness hear A plash and a sigh through the furze.

36 collocations for  chirping