He hated to own it, but he had to own that wherever he had met the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race together in Europe, the elder had shown, by a superior chirpiness, to the disadvantage of the younger.
"Their Silver Wedding Journey"
William Dean Howells
We always keep our sorrows for the drawing-room, and our chirpiness for church.
"The Green Carnation"
Robert Smythe Hichens
She had a chirpiness, and a lift in her inflections, which if it was not exactly English was no longer Western American.
"Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells"
William Dean Howells