chirrup

• “Esther works on maintaining her attention only in the present; there is always the now—an endlessly adjusting smell of the wind, the shining of the stars, the deep five-call chirrup chirrup of the cicadas in the park.”

  Simon & Schuster: Memory Wall

• “Again, it should be known that the conventional "chirrup" (7) to quiet and "cluck" to rouse a horse are a sort of precept of the training school; and supposing any one from the beginning chose to associate soft soothing actions with the "cluck" sound, and harsh rousing actions with the "chirrup," the horse could be taught to rouse himself at the”

  On Horsemanship

• “At night other sounds are heard, less agreeable to the ear: the shrill "chirrup" of cicadas and tree-toads ringing so incessantly, that only when they cease do you become conscious of their existence; the dull "gluck-gluck" of the great bullfrog; the sharp cries of the heron and _qua-bird_; and the sepulchral screech of the great horned owl.”

  The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness

• “A "chirrup" can be sounded if pedestrians or cyclists seem unaware of its presence.”

  BC Bloggers

• “They chitter, chatter and chirrup, twitching their tails as if they were furry lariats.”

  The Washington Post: In the urban game park, nut-gatherers rule

• “Between each chirrup in a chorus of spring peepers, tiny pauses.”

  The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber

• “For an hour, our group wandered round Pripyat, stepping over broken glass and lumps of wood and stone, with the constant chirrup of our radiation counters providing warnings if we strayed too far.”

  The Guardian: Chernobyl 25 years on: a poisoned landscape

• “He slightly slacked the reins on the restless, head-tossing animals, and without need of chirrup they took the weight of the light vehicle and passed up the hill and apprehensively on the inside of the purring machine.”

  CHAPTER X

• “It is at this stage that Zombie Isner starts to look like Zombie Mahut and the Zombie Umpire stops croaking and starts to chirrup like a grasshopper.”

  The Guardian: Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June

• “Decade after decade, poetry slips into its fifteen-hundred-copy-print-run oblivion and scattered identities on the Internet, and we hear not one chirrup about it from the leading thinkers or writers who have access to a dialogue with the greater public.”

  The Huffington Post: Why Aren't Poets More Politically Active?

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