chirr

• A monotonous locust was chirr-chirr-chirring from a nearby cottonwood and in the long hedge of Osage oranges moaned wood doves By noon I had achieved a mechanical swing that helped relieve the physical strain, a swinging rhythm of the hips and back muscles which took the burden off my aching and weaker arms. —  Tramping on Life
• Our own lads also quieted down; and finally the only sounds which broke the solemn stillness of the night were the sighing of the breeze, the gentle rustle of the foliage, and the loud sonorous chirr, chirr, chirr of the insects It was about half-past nine o'clock, and I was just thinking of going below to turn-in when I became conscious of the sounds of a commotion of some sort; a muffled cry, which seemed to me like a call for "help;" a dull thud, as of a falling body, and a splash_! —  The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
• A monotonous locust was chirr-chirr-chirring from a nearby cottonwood and in the long hedge of Osage oranges moaned wood doves By noon I had achieved a mechanical swing that helped relieve the physical strain, a swinging rhythm of the hips and back muscles which took the burden off my aching and weaker arms That afternoon, late, when the old man drove his waggon up to me for the hundredth time it seemed, he smiled quizzically Well, here you are still, but you're too skinny to stand it another day better draw your two bucks from the boss and strike out for Laurel again that so, Daddy!" —  Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative
• He could hear, loud as an insurrection, the quick, unequal double- knocking in his bosom A grasshopper, roosting on a blade of grass beneath, his feet, tumbled off and gave vent to his feelings in a belated "chirr." —  The Lilac Sunbonnet
• Save for cricket's chirr or the bee's low hum, —  Verses

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