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Definition of Chirpers
1. chirper [n] - See also: chirper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chirpers
Literary usage of Chirpers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1909)
"A spirited style would produce sonorous compounds like "sky-bred chirpers," "heart-scalding
sighs," "home-keeping wits" and "cloud-capt towers. ..."
2. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb by Maurice Henry Hewlett, Laurence Binyon, Edward James Hewlett, William Randolph Hearst, Jonathan Swift, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Frederick Madison Smith, Mariano Tomás (1905)
"... cuts is the owl and little chirpers, page 63. Wishing you all amusement, which
your true emblem-fancier can scarce fail to find in even bad emblems, ..."
3. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell: With Illustrations by James Russell Lowell (1891)
"... chirpers Sees clearer 'n mud the wickedness o' eatin' little birds) I see my
error an' agreed to shen it ..."
4. The Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger (1904)
"... chirpers, page 63. Wishing you all amusement, which your true emblem- fancier
can scarce fail to find in even bad emblems, I remain your caterer to ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1819)
"... emptied a huge bag containing two brace of " chirpers" (pouts evidently taken
by the hand), and, to the petrifaction of the spectators an enormous Fox. ..."
6. Our South American Cousins by William Taylor (1880)
"He sits in a corner, and his chirpers keep up a perpetual complaint of hard times.
There comes the shoe and boot maker with a dozen pairs of his own make, ..."
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