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
The soldier stood erect, gray-faced and immovable, his eyes fixed, his teeth set, his hand gripping the pike, till the insects, reassured, began to chirr close about him.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
Their call for food was a sibilant chirr, and they gave it much oftener than any of the grown-up woodpecker notes.
From A-Birding on a Bronco by Florence A. Merriam
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 Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley
Hung with the crimson aigrets of its seeds The purple monkshood bleeds; The dewy crickets chirr, And everywhere are lights of lavender; And scents of musk and myrrh To guide the foot of her.
From The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy by Madison Julius Cawein
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