Lexicographical Neighbors of Chirling
Literary usage of Chirling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836 by Thomas Carlyle (1889)
"... the Wednesday afternoon, as I returned to Frederick Street from Mrs.
Austin's (where they had kept me to dinner), I was met by the chirling of a little ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"To emit a low melancholy sound, as birds do in winter, or before a storm, Clydes.
The fairy barbs were light and fleet ; The chirling echoes went and came. ..."
3. The Bards of Galloway: A Collection of Poems, Songs, Ballads, &c., by by Malcolm M'Lachlan Harper (1889)
"The chirling partridge, cow'ring, ran, To seek himself a loving mate, Less fearful
of destructive man, Whose killing time is out of date. ..."
4. Bits about America by John Tod (1887)
"I cannot linger over the beauties of May-day on the margin of Lake Champlain with
its chirling constant whistling of bull - frogs, its mountain surroundings ..."
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