chirrup

• Fox News 'Chyrons have been all a-chirrup with alarm and outrage over the size of President Barack Obama's budget, which is terrifying and socialist, apparently. —  Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
• When he touched the female she began to chirrup, whereupon the male turned his antennæ toward the box, "as if to determine from which direction the sound came, and then marched straight toward the female." —  The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
• These beetles, when irritated, make a squeaking chirrup by rubbing together the prothorax and mesothorax When I irritated the female she began to chirrup, and the male immediately turned toward the small paper box in which she was confined. —  The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
• "Now then Are you going to shout No; I've got the dad's pipe," and applying the little silver whistle to his lips he made it give forth one little shrill chirrup, and then waited, while the stillness seemed to Fitz more awful than before, and his heart sank lower with the dread lest the men were dead, the boat gone, and his project completely at an end. —  Fitz the Filibuster
• There was a low chirrup, and Uncle was being roughly jostled about by the two men, when there was a cry of "pickpockets," and the train-boy was seen swinging on to the wrist of one of the men behind Uncle and yelling "let 'er go; let 'er go Illustration: "UNCLE GAVE HIS CHECKS TO THE NEAREST CAB DRIVER The man held a wallet in his hand, but with a curse he dropped it, tore loose from the boy and rushed through the door, disappearing in the crowd Here, Mister, is yer wad. —  The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs

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