This day thou'll chirp and mourn the morrow Wi' anxious breast; The plough has turned the mould'ring furrow Deep o'er thy nest!
No sound came to them but the chirpof a startled squirrel and the barking of a dog in the direction of St. James.
There came the sleepy chirp of a bird and the rustling of tired wings settling for the night.
Gray shadows danced on the wall like phantoms--the lowchirp of a bird was heard in the distance.
It is evening in the drawing-room at Tornow, and the air breathes soft and fragrance-laden through the open window; the monotonous chirp of the crickets sounds loud and shrill as if to drown the sweet plaint of the nightingale.
Let a chirp outa you, and you'll never have time to be sorry," warned the cattleman.
I been told I got no terminal facilities of speech, but it's a fact I didn't chirp from start to finish of the hold-up.
Yes," he said directly after, for the chirp was answered from lower down.
The wild shy things which roam The woods, and live in bough and tree and grot, Flutter and chirp unscared, they fear me not, For I too am at home.
Illustration: CHIRP THE THIRD] THE Dutch clock in the corner struck Ten, when the Carrier sat down by his fireside.
It may have entertained the Cricket too, for anything I know; but, certainly, it now began to chirp again, vehemently.
CHIRP THE THIRD The Dutch clock in the corner struck Ten when the Carrier sat down by his fireside.
It may have entertained the Cricket, too, for anything I know; but, certainly, it now began to chirp again vehemently.
Your skylark would chirp about in every room, with her song rising and falling-- Helmer.
A songbird must have a clean beak to chirp with--no false notes!
The inch-worm was destroyed, the trees became healthy and green, and now the spirited little English birds hop and chirp in every garden and park in the Union!
Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note.
Where the blackbird sings the latest, Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest, Where the nestlings chirp and flee, That's the way for Billy and me.
In summer, crickets often make excursions from the house to the neighbouring fields, and dwell in the crevices of rubbish, or the cracks made in the ground by dry weather, where they chirp as merrily as in the snuggest chimney-corner.
Sitting in the entrance of their caverns, they chirp all night as well as day, from the middle of the month of May to the middle of July.
He also evinced a desire to enter into conversation with one or two other sociable dogs, but the briefest chirp or whistle brought him at once obediently to my heel, just as if he had known and obeyed me all his life.
And somewhile after he had entered that woodland the summer day began to dawn and all the birds began at first to chirp and then to sing very blithely and with a great multitude of happy voices from out of every leafy thicket.
Then the small fowl awoke, and first one began to chirp and then another, until a multitude of the little feathered creatures fell to singing upon all sides so that the silence of the forest was filled full of their multitudinous chanting.
The red rays streaming through the park and the chirp of birds in the bushes were magic touches that transformed the world.
I really don't know--perhaps the thing that makes the birds out there in the Square chirp while the snow is still on the ground, the feeling that Spring is coming.
In the garden the first chirp of the birds began, and from the direction of the not distant pond, with the odor of the acacias, came the cries of herons and the subdued, as if yet sleepy, quacks of the wild ducks.
He began in low, clear tones reciting the contest between the hum of the kettle and the chirp of the cricket; the music of his voice lending added charm to the dual song.
It was only when Richard's voice finally ceased with the loud chirp of the cricket at the close of the beloved story, and St. George had helped her to her feet, that she seemed to awake to a sense of where she was.
On my imitating their chirpone fluttered down, and attempted to alight on my horse's ears.
On my whistling to them, one whistled some beautifully varied notes, as soft as those of an octave flute, although their common chirp was harsh and dissonant.
And once or twice the sleepy chirp of a bird nestling by his mate in the deep shrubberies showed that the life of the spring was beating out of sight.
From below came the ceaseless scraping chirp of crickets, the shrill piping call of cicadas, the tuneless croak of frogs.
Tom heard the rustling of millions of tiny wings, the garrulous chirp of crickets, the buzz of ant-lions, the dull roar of bull-frogs.
These notes are very similar, and as slender and piercing as thechirp of a grasshopper, being distinguished from the latter only by a different and more pleasing modulation.
The chirp came from a thick holly bush, bright with scarlet berries, and Mary thought she knew whose it was.
She heard a chirp and a twitter, and when she looked at the bare flower-bed at her left side there he was hopping about and pretending to peck things out of the earth to persuade her that he had not followed her.
Sometimes the alert chirp of the cardinal suddenly smote the ear from some neighboring tree; but he would pass, a flash of crimson, from one garden to the next, and with another chirp or two be gone for days.
