He whimpers and cheeps all the night, trying to make up his mind to run into the middle of the room.
"The Jungle Book"
Rudyard Kipling
That first morning in her new house, Gyp woke with the sparrow, or whatever the bird which utters the first cheeps and twitters, soon eclipsed by so much that is more important in bird-song.
"Beyond"
John Galsworthy
cheeps and Bartholomew were there, chirping and purring, the sun was shining in; the things were all hers, for Aunt Blin had written one broad, straggling, unsteady line upon a sheet of paper the last day she lived, when the fever and confusion had ebbed away out of her brain as life ebbed slowly back, beaten from its outworks by disease, toward her heart, and she lay feebly, but clearly, conscious.
"The Other Girls"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney