Secure in her unsuspecting innocence, she chirruped to her baby and resumed her sewing.

There had been a sharp chirrup of the whistle, and at almost the same moment the train began to move.

And why, across the aching field, Does one lone cricket chirrup on; Why one surviving butterfly, With all its bright companions gone?

The day was the same as yesterday, the meadows drying up for want of rain; and there was a thirsty chirruping of small birds in the hedgerows.

I regard the cricket that chirruped in the wall as an institution.

When it drops off a notebut you will not know it except the Douglas squirrel tells you with his high, fluty chirrup from the pines' aerial gloomsign that some star watcher has caught the first far glint of the nearing sun.

Monsieur Robineau looked the soul of good nature, ready to chirrup over his grog-au-vin, to smoke a pipe with his neighbor, to cut a harmless joke or enjoy a harmless frolic, as cheerfully as any little tailor that ever lived; Madame Robineau, on the contrary, preserved a dreadful dignity, and looked as if she could laugh at nothing on this side of the grave.

The choughs are persistent followers of a Ski-ing party, flying over one's head and chirruping for lunch.

The only things that reminded us of civilization, aside from what we carried with us, were the innumerable crickets that, through all the night, kept up their chirruping in the crevices of this rude fireplace.

There was a piece of bread upon the bench, left from his morning meal; and the old fellow chirruped about, and looked as blithe as if he was up to the middle in clover.