I'se a bad hand at talking in their way; ye see its mair like a bird chirruping nor our folks rough talk.
I ken a good bit of their talk, ye see, but I'se a bad hand at framing their queer chirruping words.
But it kept looking round flower-pots at Faithful and chirruping at him sideways, and didn't realise that its life hung by a thread.
Jimmy says the sparrow only escaped by the skin of its teeth, because just as Faithful had got everything out of the way and was going to set to work in earnest, the sparrow flew out and went and sat up in a tree chirruping like anything.
The only difference was the brooding daylight of summer and the ceaseless chirruping of the sparrows in the ivy outside.
Once, as he passed a marsh near a lime-kiln, a number of small birds rose chirruping from where they had been clinging among the reeds.
At which Mr. Porter who walked beside the wagon, holding the reins, and now and thenchirruping to the willing creatures who needed no whip or harsh command, turned his head towards the tiny figure with a merry twinkle in his eye.
Running along a branch he curved his tail over his head, and sitting down, gave a cheerful, chirruping call, which perhaps meant that there was no danger; for in a moment the whole tree seemed to be alive with the rest of the family.
The chirrupingof the semi aggravates the heat until I wish to cut down the pine-tree on which it sings.
There were German and English women, and numerous Americans, all more or less charming, displaying the grace of thoughtless, chirruping birds.
The bell of the nunnery of Sainte Clarissa, near the old bridge, rang a scale of gay, clear notes, which one might have fancied to be the chirruping of a bird.
She walked along absently, her dress sweeping the crickets in chirruping showers from the long dank herbage under the shade of the quince hedge.
Lies flat on the floorchirruping and calling, Nero!
Some tiny bird, disturbed by these unwonted visitors, began chirruping and fluttering, but was soon still again.
Some sparrows in the eave were chirruping incessantly.
The woman walked forward among the boxes and bales of the lower deck, and, sitting down, busied herself with chirruping to her baby.
The early paragraphs dealt with some small item of family news which in his present state of mind mattered to Lavendar no more than the distant chirruping of the birds, out there in the sunshine.
He got up and moved slowly down the aisle, opening the door, seeing again the meadow of buttercups, yellow as gold, and listening again to the sparrows chirruping in the sunshine outside.
Under the image of the lively chirruping grasshoppers who inform the Muses in heaven about those who honour them on earth, Plato intends to represent an Athenian audience (tettigessin eoikotes).
And I believe that the grasshoppers chirruping after their manner in the heat of the sun over our heads are talking to one another and looking down at us.
Then it was that the dawn came bursting through the clouds of night, and the swallows skimmed chirruping over the fields, while the sun began to show his dazzling face on the horizon.
Soetkin and Claes soon discovered the cause of this mad behaviour, for there was a tiny little bird, chirruping with fear, and cowering against a beam in the recess of the ceiling, and Ulenspiegel was trying to catch it.
Whydahs, though full fledged, still gladly take a feed from their dam, putting down the breast to the ground and cocking up the bill and chirruping in the most engaging manner and winning way they know.
Each little one puts his head on one side as he inserts his bill, chirruping briskly, and bothering him.
In farther journey comes a spring of the higher wood and soon a firm note of horns and a blast of trumpets on a chirruping call, till the whole panoply of solar brilliance is shimmering.
Bassoon)] strings, with a refrain, too, of chirruping woodwind.
As the men followed him down into the boat another shrill chirruping whistle rang out upon the dark night-air, a whistle which the lieutenant knew well enough to be a warning to the men ashore that there was danger.
But would you say that it was this chirruping that made the sun rise?
At most it is admissible that the vague spectacle of things inspires in man a chirruping like that which takes the birds at sunrise.
In some of the parks, notably at Battersea, where the birds are in thousands, the effect of so many voices all chirruping together is quite wonderful, and very delightful.
I uttered a low chirruping signal which brought my uncle and Cross to hear the news, and the next minute we had seized our guns.
Only frogs or toads, Nat; and that chirruping whirring is something in the cricket or cicada way.
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