Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Chirping

Chirping like a cricket.
—Anonymous

Chirping like a gay Cicala in a sunny bower.
—John Stuart Blackie

Chirp … like new-fledged linnet.
—Austin Dobson

Chirping as chirp the birds beneath the eaves.
—Victor Hugo

Chirping, like the dry
High-elbow’d grigs that leap in summer grass.
—Alfred Tennyson