I wish, and the boys wishes, we could do something to chirk you up."
"Ethelyn's Mistake"
Mary Jane Holmes
Can't we do something to chirk him up a bit?
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford
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.
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne