Chirk

Chirk, chirk, chirk, it went, the sound of a spoon being rapidly whisked round a basin. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

Ayla lay awake under the starlit sky, staring up at the patterns of constellations and listening to the night sounds: the wind sifting through the trees, the soft liquid running of the river, the chirk of crickets, the harsh harumph of a bullfrog. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)

Mr. Haynes told me that if I would "chirk up" he would give me his elk teeth. ❋ Elinore Pruitt Stewart (N/A)

Just before dinner time I donned a becoming gown to chirk up my courage, groped my way down the long, dim stairs, and telephoned to Von Gerhard. ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)

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. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Five dollars would make me chirk up; ten would start a slight smile; twenty would put a beam in mine eye; fifty would cause me to utter shrill cries of unadulterated joys and a hundred would inspire me to actions like unto those of a whirling dervish. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Not that anyone in particular expected "them poor Hayneses" to keep bright or "chirk up." ❋ Various (1915)

And such was the power of mercury and mind combined over matter that he would immediately chirk up and feel warm. ❋ Unknown (1910)

It's only when you come she seems to chirk up a bit. ❋ Unknown (1909)

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. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

"Cushla Mavourneen" in the kitchen couldn't chirk me up. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

"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." ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

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: ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)

"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." ❋ Zona Gale (1906)

"Wal, chirk up, Father; mebbe things'll grow brighter soon." ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)

You chirk her up, Patty, and tell her there's no harm done, and that all her friends love her just the same. ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)

"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." ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)