chirr
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A pensive stillness passed while they listened to the hushed chirr of insects in the trees that surrounded the cemetery like an embrace.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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The crickets' chirr 'neath brier and burr, By leaf-strewn pools and streams, When Autumn stands 'mid the dropping nuts, With the book, she shuts, Of dreams.
From The Garden of Dreams by Cawein, Madison J.
Calls, a clearly piped whistle, and a peculiar chirr, often uttered when taking wing; song, short, simple, but rather sweet.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
And so I reach, Dear Lord, to Thee, And do beseech Thou givest me The wee cot, and the cricket's chirr, Love, and the glad sweet face of her.
From Riley Love-Lyrics by Vawter, Will
There was no insect sound to chirr; No wind to make a little stir.
From The Garden of Dreams by Cawein, Madison J.