chirrup

The other creature called in a higher voice, almost a chirrup.

She couldn't hear if it made its small chirrup or not.

For perhaps a second the tiny chirrup of London sounded out into the room.

As I heard the first evil chirrup of an arrow, her hand shot forward.

His thoughts were interrupted by the chirrup of the com system.

His hand rapped the door frame and he gave a chirrup of pain.

The distant chirrup of crickets floated in the still air.

Then a bird in a nearby bush unexpectedly gave a little chirrup and was silent again.

The chirrup of the bridge channel, then, didn't exactly wake me.

"Chirrup," said one of the shadow people importantly, pulling at my leg.

Common terms in English include words such as quack, chirp and chirrup.

The radio gave a chirrup, then lapsed into silence.

My heart hammered with fright, and I let out a strangled chirrup.

On occasions they also issue a harsh rattling chirrup.

The thin chirrup of their homing device sounded very lonely and far away.

There was a chirrup, and the translator spoke.

She smiled benignly, making chirrups and whistles that sounded like their speech.

When he saw my white face he gave a little chirrup of joy and came running up towards me. "

The cat uttered a self-satisfied chirrup in reply, and ran on ahead.

Lop-ear spoke with high-pitched chirrups of his trunk that he knew would not carry back to the Family.

He camped beside an artificial lake, listening to frogs and insect chirrups.

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

It gave a chirrup that was rather like a hiccup, yet still had a note of challenge in it.

A dove could do no more than flutter its wings anxiously, and make small, worried chirrups.

He bleated to her with tiny chirrups and squeaks.

The men gossip at large tables while their birds chirrup to each other.

A solitary bird had begun to chirrup high in the elms.

Little birds chirrup in sunny bushes just outside as he opens the new scrapbook.

When the birds at last began to chirrup and she saw a little light beginning to strain through the trees, Trisha could hardly believe it.

They chirrup, trill, growl, or bark, depending on the circumstances.

Susan let Miss Gilchrist chirrup away into silence before starting her own subject of conversation.

When at rest, they chirrup; when faced with an aggressive situation, they screech.

Brian Jacques grasshoppers to chirrup and rustle in the rock-strewn foothills.

Crickets began to chirrup.

He is well and has a right to chirrup and ruffle his wings; but I am ill and must die that's all.

Strange was looking about him when a songthrush alighted upon his shoulder and began to chirrup:

A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings.

Crickets chirrup, dragonflies dart over the lawns, the hotel lights glow warmly; it's all quite magical.

"Having managed to chirrup "Ascroft" at least five times this was a majestic win for our Dear Leader"

If the Queen-' 'Can't you chirrup a different song?'

Insects began to chirrup, lizards ran from the crevices of the rocks, yonder the rain-washed bud of a mountain lily opened before his eyes.

The sun was baking down now from out of a cloudless sky, and heat-bugs began to chirrup somewhere, producing a harsh and metallic stridulation that sounded amazingly like a buzz saw.

He strolled slowly out, while Billy Windsor, mounting a chair, proceeded to chirrup and snap his fingers in the effort to establish the foundations of an entente cordiale with the rescued cat.

Every now and then he would come and chirrup about Joachim, for he was pained and shocked at my having said that his Joachim was some one else and not Joachim at all.

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.

They lather their black hair energetically, as the walnut-faced old man jets a fountain of toothpaste into the swirling water, while pretty schoolgirls - English in their uniform if not their thanakha - chirrup off to school.

Professor Summerlee had just begun to chirrup like a canary, and Lord John to get to the climax of his story, when the train drew up at Jarvis Brook, which had been given us as the station for Rotherfield.

And the first green buds appeared, the first little birds began to chirrup; and out of the wood came, riding on a magnificent horse, which Gerda knew (it was one of the leaders in the golden carriage), a young damsel with a bright-red cap on her head, and armed with pistols.

"Global village": what an appropriate phrase, though not the way it is mostly used, implying technological neighborliness among three billion people and, who knows, ads that chirrup, "You've got a friend at the Bank of Wuppertal" once your mortgage, having bopped among half a dozen spots around the United States, begins to bop globally as well.