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  • Then, Chirrup fetches all of the replies from Twitter, and sorts them by URL so you can have a comment feed for each page in your site.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Chirrup is comment system which uses Twitter as a datastore.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Mr. and Mrs. Chirrup are the nice little couple in question.

    Sketches by Boz 2007

  • Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus; with a voice so astoundingly disproportionate to its size, as compared with the kettle;

    The Cricket on the Hearth 2007

  • To Mrs. Chirrup the resolving a goose into its smallest component parts is a pleasant pastime — a practical joke — a thing to be done in a minute or so, without the smallest interruption to the conversation of the time.

    Sketches by Boz 2007

  • Chirrup of robin and blue-bird in the white-blossomed apple and pear;

    The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878

  • No man has ever better depicted than he did a sweet nature shocked by calamity and bowed down with grief, or, as in Joe Chirrup, in _Elfie_, manliness chastened by affliction and ennobled by true love: yet his impersonation of Fagin was only second to that of J.W. W.llack, Jr.; his Moody, in

    Shadows of the Stage William Winter 1876

  • Another what seemed to be a painfully long pause, and then _Chirrup_! once again.

    Fitz the Filibuster George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus; with a voice so astoundingly disproportionate to its size, as compared with the kettle; (size! you couldn't see it!) that if it had then and there burst itself like an overcharged gun, if it had fallen a victim on the spot, and chirruped its little body into fifty pieces, it would have seemed a natural and inevitable consequence, for which it had expressly laboured.

    The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 1841

  • Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus; with a voice so astoundingly disproportionate to its size, as compared with the kettle;

    The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 1841

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