Crossword-Solution: CHIRP 5 letters, 101 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The bird entreated earnestly for his life: “What would you do without me when next you spread your nets? Who would chirp you to sleep, or call for you the covey of answering birds?” The Birdcatcher spared his life, and determined to pick out a fine young Cock just attaining to his comb.

Birds and insects without number began to chirp, to twitter, to snap and whistle, to make all manner of fresh shrill noises.

Little brown birds began to chirp in the bushes along the watercourse down at the bottom of the ravine, where everything was still dusky and pale.

Vain longing, and vain yearning, There now is no returning; Oh! beating heart and burning, Forget to burn and beat! Oh! childish suns and showers, Oh! girlish thorns and flowers, Oh! fruitless days and hours, Oh! groundless hopes and fears: The birds still chirp and twitter, And still the sunbeams glitter: Oh! barren years and bitter, Oh! bitter, barren years! SCENE--The Summit of a Burning Mountain.

They might chirp and chaffer, come and go For pleasure or profit, her men alive-- My business was hardly with them, I trow, But with empty cells of the human hive; --With the chapter-room, the cloister-porch, The church’s apsis, aisle or nave, Its crypt, one fingers along with a torch, Its face set full for the sun to shave.