It is the sound of concrete crickets, little devices created by artist Michael Dory that play bits of music and make cricket-like sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

All about me were eyes, faces, masks, a leathery noise like the rustling of beetle wings, and a great bleating and cricket-like twittering of Selenite voices.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Men in the Moon] Reference

 She switched from one call to another in a voice that must have sounded like friendly greeting to each caller, but that took on a chirping, cricket-like cadence when heard in repetition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Messenger] Reference

"Helgamarktz" opens with cricket-like sounds that are building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference

No moody violins or traffic rushing past or the cricket-like trill of cameras.    From Wordnik.com.  [VQR] Reference

These are large, carnivorous, cricket-like insects whose feet splay out wildly in different directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

May wants to know what has become of the katydids and the cricket-like grasshoppers -- she thinks Ned has left them out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insect Folk] Reference

He saluted us with a cricket-like chirpiness of manner, and was greatly amazed to hear that we had come all the way from America to visit him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Journeys] Reference

In an age of beaten down indie rock formats they pirouette between grandiose rocking peaks and cricket-like atmosphere that would make Brian Eno blush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glide Magazine - Music :: Culture :: Life] Reference

Mansfield resident Jan Kennedy said finding the pink cricket-like creature, which are typically green, in Wyandot County, Ohio, was a unique treat, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch said Friday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning] Reference

I heard what resembled the pattering of little feet, as of the rat running over the lid of an empty box; and once or twice I clearly distinguished the short, shrill cricket-like "chirp" that rats are wont to utter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Tar] Reference

Owen Wilson has a small but memorable cameo as the voice of Ash and Kristofferson's coach Skip who explains the rules of a cricket-like game called Whackbat while Willem Dafoe is great as the villainous, paranoid Rat who says bad things about Mrs. Fox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Once in my walk upon the sea beach I encountered two small beach birds running up and down in the edge of the surf, keeping just in the thin, lace-like edging of the waves, and feeding upon the white, cricket-like hoppers that quickly buried themselves in the sand as the waters retreated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers] Reference

The sun still shone brilliantly, streaming down, as it were, through the leaves of the great tree like a shower of silver rain, but the silence now was painful, and Rob strained his ears to catch the peculiar modulation of one of the cricket-like insects which were generally so common around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco] Reference

Such were still his thoughts more than a full hour afterwards, when, supper over, he still sat with shining jovial face in the same warm nook, listening to the cricket-like chirrup of little Solomon Daisy, and bearing no unimportant or slightly respected part in the social gossip round the Maypole fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnaby Rudge]

With a cricket-like noise of weaving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Certain Noble Plays of Japan From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa] Reference

And a cricket-like thing that could hop went by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Tree] Reference

& #160                        And a cricket-like thing that could hop went by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under The Tree] Reference

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