You could hear from the road-bushes the chirp of a snow-bird, wakened by the tramp of his horse, or the flutter of its wings.

The branches of a cherry-tree, close under her sight, dropped lifelessly; a homesick bird gave a little, still, mournful chirp in the dark.

Then out of the cinders there cometh a chirp Like an echoing, answering cry, Little we care for the outside world, My friend the cricket, and I.

It eyes were half shut, one leg hung loose, and it was making faint chirps of distress.

Cowardice and cruelty being twins, the man who runs terror-stricken into his barrack to-night because he mistook the chirp of a cricket for the click of a pistol, indemnifies himself to-morrow by beating his bearer to within an inch of his life.

Doe I thinke When I behold the wanton Sparrows change Their chirps to billing, they are chast?

Here crawled the lizard and the rattlesnake; and there was no music to the desolation save the petulant chirp of the cricket.

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.