1 A grove of pines covered one part of it, and from the heart of this green spot came a clearer sound than the soft sigh of the pines or the drowsy chirp of the crickets.
2 Beth's bird began to chirp again, and a half-blown rose was discovered on Amy's bush in the window.
3 His meals were interrupted by the frequent flight of the presiding genius, who deserted him, half-helped, if a muffled chirp sounded from the nest above.
4 He had followed her and he greeted her with a chirp.
5 The chirp came from a thick holly bush, bright with scarlet berries, and Mary thought she knew whose it was.
6 When it began to chirp faintly, he listened as if it were a beautiful sound.
7 We stood there in friendly silence, while the feeble minstrel sheltered in Antonia's hair went on with its scratchy chirp.
8 The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them.
9 He twittered and chirped and hopped along the wall as if he were telling her all sorts of things.
10 But the robin seemed to be quite satisfied and chirped and whistled back at her.
11 She chirped, and talked, and coaxed and he hopped, and flirted his tail and twittered.
12 He chirped a good deal and had a very busy air, as if he were showing her things.
13 And this," said Mary, stepping on to the bed close to the ivy, "is where I went to talk to him when he chirped at me from the top of the wall.
14 Thousands of grasshoppers, hidden in the bushes, chirped with a monotonous and dull note; the leaves of the myrtle and olive trees waved and rustled in the wind.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 15 Amy chirped like a cricket, and Jo wandered through the airs at her own sweet will, always coming out at the wrong place with a croak or a quaver that spoiled the most pensive tune.