February 21, 2008 at 4:00 pm book cud be litter a churr.    From Wordnik.com.  [i gotz u a rly good book… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Even the grasshoppers ceased their churr in the trees — only a window rattled somewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Love] Reference

With a satisfied little churr, the baby collapsed on Leryn's feet, staring adoringly up at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Other Tales Of Valdemar]

The bird lands on the roof and begins to churr, giving a “sensible vibration to the whole building.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

Then we have the loud cry of francolins, the “pumpuru, pumpuru” of turtle-doves, and the “chiken, chiken, chik, churr, churr” of the honey-guide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

Here and there, both on the river and in the fields, other lights were glimmering, whether close at hand or far away, the eye could not distinguish; they shrank together, then suddenly lengthened out into great blurs of light; grasshoppers innumerable kept up an unceasing churr, persistent as the frogs of the Pontine marshes; and across the cloudless, but dark lowering sky floated from time to time the cries of unseen birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dream tales and prose poems] Reference

Even the grasshoppers ceased their churr in the trees -- only.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Torrents of Spring] Reference

They were cutting the grass on the tennis court below; he heard the soft churr of the mower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garden Party, and Other Stories] Reference

Some know her as the night-jar, others as the fern-owl, and still others designate her as the eve-churr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference

Some such English terms apply to different species of nonhuman creatures; for example, both insects and birds churr.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1] Reference

In different parts of this kingdom people call them fen-crickets, churr-worms, and eve-churrs, all very apposite names.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference

I saw his mouth open and shut, he hollowed his hands round it, but the churr of the motor and the bees drowned his words.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Diversity of Creatures] Reference

Only a cricket from time to time gave a cautious churr, and a mouse was scratching somewhere; he could hear his own breathing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories] Reference

No roaring fires and puffing bellows; no clink of hammer or anvil, and no churr and screech of steel being held against the revolving stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patience Wins War in the Works] Reference

Dragon was yet a long way off; though indeed it must be allowed that flight, when Chwangtse wrote and Ch'u Yuan sung, was surprised with the far churr of startling wings under the stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference

So the mother works on the baskets, and talks with the women; but Manenko has heard the call of the honey-bird, the brisk little chirp of "Chiken, chiken, chik, churr, churr," and she is away to the wood to follow his call, and bring home the honey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air] Reference

Here and there, both on the river and in the fields, other lights were glimmering, whether close at hand or far away, the eye could not distinguish; they shrank together, then suddenly lengthened out into great blurs of light; grasshoppers innumerable kept up an unceasing churr, persistent as the frogs of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dream Tales and Prose Poems] Reference

The nightjar’s churr belongs with moth-speak and bat-talk—darkness audible.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

The mountain partridge may churr at sunrise and sundown; the wily crows may play out their odd life-drama daily; the mountain winds may rush roaring through the gullies until the village women say they can hear the hoofs of the brigadier's horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference

churr, isho, like the whir of a loom: churr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Certain Noble Plays of Japan From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa] Reference

Gulls churr: ululu, ululu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unreasonable Man] Reference