The Youngest and Prettiest Trustee fluttered about him, chirping ecstatic expletives, while the Disagreeable Trustee watched her and growled to himself.
The antbirds were chirping and hopping about on the very edge of the jungle, but I did not have to go that far.
He sat quiet, looking a little pensive, for the fact was, he was beginning to feel lonely, when there flew past him a flock of brown birds chirping and chattering away at a brisk rate.
I'm sorry to tell you," he said as the chirping stopped, "that they are not here.
XXI Licia my love was sitting in a grove, Tuning her smiles unto thechirping songs, But straight she spied where two together strove, Each one complaining of the other's wrongs.
A perfect silence reigned over the place; they could not hear what was going on within the small building; out here there was no sound save the chirping of the birds and the continuous murmur of the trees.
Perhaps it was their universal chirping and carolling that concealed the distant echo of the highways; for surely the heavily-laden wains were now making in for Covent Garden?
The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest; The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west.
She led them out into the farmyard, clucking and scratching busily; for all were hungry, and ran chirping round her to pick up the worms and seeds she found for them.
They were too small to run away, and sat chirping sadly till Cocky covered and kept them safe, though the smoke choked him to death.
Royal Exchange, that as a baby his life was saved by thechirping of a grasshopper, as related here.
Passing down the garden walk a miserable chicken staggered up to him, chirping a drunken recognition.
There was not a lowing cow in the distant barns, nor a chirping swallow on the fence-bushes, that did not seem to include the eager face of the little huckster in their morning greetings.
What joy each other's likeness to descry; And future sonnets in the chirping brood!
Are we not exchanging the melodies of the free birds that sing in the forest glade, for the melancholy chirping of the caged linnet?
Especially at nightfall the native fancies he hears the voice of the spirits in the hum and chirping of the insects in the forest.
He will entertain them by hopping all over me, kissing me in the mouth and chirping at the top of his voice.
I bent down and he flew up on my shoulder, chirping as loud as he could.
All went well until one morning, when she opened the cage door and saw, instead of the pretty, pecking, chirping birdie hopping from his perch to greet her, just a soft yellow ball of feathers lying at the bottom of the cage.
We are so accustomed to the various cries of animals, the buzzing of insects, and above all to the chirping and twittering and singing of birds, that we can hardly imagine what a voiceless world would be like.
But it fluttered nimbly out of his reach, still chirping in a piteous tone, as if it could have told a lamentable story, had it only been gifted with human language.
Pleasing himself with this idea, King Ulysses had made a few steps in the direction of the palace, when there was a great twittering and chirping from the branch of a neighboring tree.
The hen had also come in, and frightened by the noise, had jumped up on a chair and was wildly calling her chicks, who were chirping distractedly around the four legs of the chair.
The birds were chirping merrily in the trees that shaded the courtyard, but though the sun was high there were no signs of the usual activity below.
The merry chirping of the birds, the buzzing of the insects, the blossoming fruit trees along the route, betokened the advent of spring.
I noticed that each time the horse put its foot on the fine siliceous sand, a gentle chirping noise was produced.
A horse walking over dry and coarse sand causes a peculiar chirping noise from the friction of the particles; a circumstance which I several times noticed on the coast of Brazil.
