Word: chirrups
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Little boats with long arms and needle bodies leaped like water-spiders along the glassy Schuylkill at Philadelphia. Some were grandfather spiders, with eight arms and a monotonous chirrup-" 'Roak, 'Roak, 'Roak"; others, tiny creatures whose two arms seemed scarcely to impinge upon the mirror of that dreaming river, so swiftly, so skilfully did they compete in the Annual Regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen...
George Gershwin, 27, was born in Brooklyn. At an early age, he contributed to the music of a rickety, rollicking, tenement street, at first with infantile muling, later with a stout, pubescent chirrup. He skinned his knees in the gutters of this street; he nourished himself smearily with its bananas; he broke its dirty windows and eluded its brass-and-blue clothed curator. When he was 13, his mother purchased a piano...
...Need Sam Winslow's Soothing Chirrup, of course," cackled the fowl...
...gibberish quite unintelligible, but as I catch the word "carriole," I conclude that it must be all right. He straps my valise to a seat at the rear of the vehicle, and perches himself upon it. I perceive that I shall have to drive myself. Get in and chirrup to the horse. He does not stir. The boy produces a whip, and, lashing the animal, says something that sounds like "shoe blacking," whereupon my Bellerophon breaks into an uncouth gallop (on afterthought, am not quite certain whether Bellerophon was a horse...