The boy's piping, the wind in the lyre, and the chirr of crickets, all mingled with it; it was like the voice of the mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bull From The Sea]

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

In the evening when the dogs howl and the crickets chirr, and the huge moon hoists above the hills, and in Argostoli the searchlights search for false alarms, I take my sweet Antonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

The dust rose in thick clouds, the stones rattled from the whirling wheels, the chirr! chirr! of.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Brilliant Career] Reference

A monotonous locust was chirr-chirr-chirring from a nearby cottonwood ... and in the long hedge of Osage oranges moaned wood doves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference

'What,' she cried, 'have you never seen the tufts of red on the hazel, nor the fragrant golden palms, and never heard the blackbird rush twittering out of the hedge, nor the first nightingale's note, nor the nightjar's low chirr, nor the chattering of the rooks?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes and Characters] Reference

In the long summer days of these northern mountains, one has the feeling that they will never end, that life must go on in an infinite succession of still, sunshiny, fragrant hours, filled with the songs of birds, the chirr of insects and the distant lowing of cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Days of the Discoverers] Reference

Yet, as we glide near him, we shall see that no creature can be more full of concentrated life; all his nervous system seems on edge, every instant he is rising or lowering on his feet, the tail vibrates, the neck protrudes or shrinks again, the feathers ruffle, the crest dilates; he talks to himself with an impatient chirr, then presently hovers and dives for a fish, then flies back disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oldport Days] Reference

Once when the lawn was a golden green and the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials in the scented air, and the whole countryside pulsed with the chirr and murmur of insects, I lay in the grass, feeling the great distances open above me, and wondered what I would become and where I would find myself, and though I barely existed, I felt for an instant that the vast star-clustered sky was mine, and I heard my name as if for the first time, heard it the way one hears the wind or the rain, but faint and far off as though it belonged not to me but to the silence from which it had come and to which it would go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

He was unconscious of all the summer hum and rustle -- the cooing of the dove up in that willow tree, the winged enamelled fairies floating past, the chirr of the cicadas, that little brown lizard among the pebbles, almost within reach, seeming to listen to the beating of summer's heart so motionless it lay; unconscious, as though in verity he were again deep in some stifling trench, with German shells whining over him, and the smell of muck and blood making foetid the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tatterdemalion] Reference

Hark to the grackles 'chirr.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Divers Tones] Reference

And grasshopper's and cricket's chirr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

Just the wee cot—the cricket’s chirr—.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 1139. Ike Walton's Prayer by James Whitcomb Riley. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

Just the wee cot -- the cricket's chirr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riley Love-Lyrics] Reference

"chirr-r-p, chirr-r-p, chirr-r-p," began a pleasantly shrill little voice beneath him.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference