To Mrs. Chirrup the resolving a goose into its smallest component parts is a pleasant pastime—a practical joke—a thing to be done in a minute or so, without the smallest interruption to the conversation of the time.
Mr. Chirrup has a bachelor friend, who lived with him in his own days of single blessedness, and to whom he is mightily attached.
Spell your name, Sanch;" and Ben put all the gay letters down upon the flags with a chirrup which set the dog's tail to wagging as he waited till the alphabet was spread before him.
The male birds of all the feathered creation are the only ones who sing; the females merely utter a sweet chirrup or chirp, so that from the hen canary the bird will run no risk of learning its natural note.
But he felt Reddy on his back, heard him chirrup softly, and soon felt at ease on the tanbark.
He pressed with his knees on your withers, loosened the reins, and made a queer little chirrup when he wanted you to gallop.
In the summertime the flowers bloom in the grass, The startled insects flood the fields and chirrup as you pass, The birds sing in the bushes; but before the wintry blast The flowers and the insects and the little birds are past.
And let their voices be gladly blent With a watery jingle of pans and spoons, And a motherly chirrup of sweet content, And neighborly gossip and merriment, And old-time fiddle-tunes!
He had laid siege to Katy in his fashion, slouching in of an evening, and boasting of his exploits until Smith Westcott would come and chirrup and joke, and walk Katy right away from him to take a walk or a boat-ride.
Chirrup after chirrup mingled with the songs of the birds, and at last the bustling little figure of the lady lately seen at the Rectory window appeared at the door.
For some time they smoked in silence: not a sound was heard but the crackling of the wood on the fire, and the occasional chirrup of a robin in the neighbouring bushes.
Again and again the conversation flagged; and the hum and chirrup of the insect world without filled the pauses between.
They chirrup briskly for food: the dam gives most, while the redbreasted cock gives one or two, and then knocks the rest away.
She is a most friendly little beast, and came up to me at once, making her chirrup of welcome, smelled my clothing, and held out her hand to be shaken.
Chirrup held his broad plate next below, and Bangle knelt and rested the skull directly under both on the green sod, the lid being up.
He had better chirrupto the dog while he's there, don't you think?
While you're down there, just chirrup a little more to poor Pinky.
Still as the two moved past, the chirrup was repeated, and the Huron woman stopped and faced the tree whence the sounds seemed to proceed, standing, at the moment, within six feet of her enemies.
When other folk's squirrels are at home and asleep, yourn keep in motion among the trees, and chirrup and sing, in a way that even a Delaware gal can understand their musick!
A chirrup was in the reverend doctor's tone: "Hocks, too, have compassed age.
It is adapted for caged voices that are required to chirrup to tickle the ears of boors.
I will look over at you, and chirrup now and then to you, my dearest, when I am not engaged in piloting extraordinary.
It was clear that some marvellous magic controlled them as they moved to and fro, obedient to a scarcely perceptible hissing chirrup on his part.
For example, Meleager thus addresses the cricket: "O thou that art with shrill wings the self-formed imitation of the lyre, chirrup me something pleasant while beating your vocal wings with your feet!
Plant andChirrup paused; but Bangle, who had evidently his heart on the accomplishment of the undertaking, said, 'Forward!
We could hear the chirrup of children's voices, still, going up the road, towards the town.
Chirrup held his broad plate next below, and "Bangle knelt, and rested the skull directly under both on the green sod; the lid being up.
Both said they had forgotten, and Chirrup said they had better never have come; but Plant drew his knife, and stepping into a moonlighted bush, soon returned with what was wanted, and they went forward.
The chirrup of the shrill old voice bore in upon the younger man's protest with, "Now, you let me say my say.
All was still around the church, except the cicadas, who kept up their shrill chirrup in the large tamarind trees, and the little grey owls, who seemed to increase their strange twittering hoot as the night advanced.
Ellen sat a while listening to the soothing chirrup of the cricket, and the pleasant crackling of the flames.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chirrup" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
