Mr. Haynes told me that if I would "chirk up" he would give me his elk teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters on an Elk Hunt] Reference

It's only when you come she seems to chirk up a bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Avonlea] Reference

"Go ahead," he says, and I see Jim chirk up to listen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Sawyer Abroad] Reference

"Cushla Mavourneen" in the kitchen couldn't chirk me up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shorty McCabe] Reference

Ef we've been heavy-hearted or sorrowful we will chirk up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks] Reference

"Wal, chirk up, Father; mebbe things'll grow brighter soon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie at Seacote] Reference

What Vilet say chirk me up po'fully, kase she see me ebery day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Trembled] Reference

"His tail will curl over again, when he begins to chirk up a bit," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cricket at the Seashore] Reference

Do go, Mr. Crane: it'll chirk you up and dew you good to go out into society ag'in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X)] Reference

chirk, chirk, chirk, it went, the sound of a spoon being rapidly whisked round a basin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Man] Reference

Not that anyone in particular expected "them poor Hayneses" to keep bright or "chirk up.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

"Can't we do something to chirk him up a bit?" says I. "He seems to take it hard, being hung up on a ticket.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Shorty McCabe] Reference

Now, you chirk up, Boston, and smile and try to be a good sport, or I'll work you over and make a man out of you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Chance] Reference

And such was the power of mercury and mind combined over matter that he would immediately chirk up and feel warm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe Revised] Reference

"Mother and me'll have to stay by the fire to-day, but I've no doubt it'll chirk you up a bit to get outdoors a spell.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Brother] Reference

"We rode up on the stage day before yesterday, and he seemed so kind o 'blue and lonesome I couldn't help trying to chirk him up.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range] Reference

"Well, I think," said Mis 'Jane Moran, "that we've hit on the only way we could have hit on to chirk each other up over a hard time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas A Story] Reference

I ast her oncet didn't she want me to write him to come an 'make her a little visit just to chirk her up, and she shook her head and looked real frightened, and she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man of the Desert] Reference

We were in the very centre of a prairie-dog town, but before I could formulate in my mind the probabilities of holes and broken legs, the chirk, chirk, chirking had fallen astern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Nights] Reference

"Well, I guess he's pretty happy seeing you chirk up so, Mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witness] Reference

Wisht I hed some a-runnin 'in an' out to kinder chirk me up a bit when Cindy's away. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cricket at the Seashore] Reference

"You won't have to drive so easy as you used to, Ben," he called out, "this fellow's chirk; give him his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Little Peppers Midway] Reference

"Wal, he was a little grain more chirk last night, I was told.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drummer Boy] Reference

Don't you worry now; chirk up, and you'll come out all right. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [He Fell in Love with His Wife] Reference

Mother was sittin 'up as chirk as you please, and dreadful sorry you didn't all come. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.] Reference

Now, chirk up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dollmaker] Reference

It seems to chirk him up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Louise in the Country] Reference

This article was tagged; a5, chirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shropshire Star] Reference

Kind o 'chirk, it's been a fortnight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference

Kind o 'chirk -- it's been a fortnit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference

But you couldn't chirk him up that way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shorty McCabe] Reference

Now you jest wipe your eyes and chirk up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

Chirp and chirk like a new-fledged linnet!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II] Reference

"Better write right back and chirk 'im up.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas A Story] Reference

Now I'll tell you something to chirk you up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie's New Friend] Reference

A sudden chirk, chirk, chirk, rose all about me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Nights] Reference

We need to chirk up the rest of the house a bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witness] Reference