"I don't know why it is," she said, with a little chirrup, like a bird's, "but I'm always late-always!"
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Presently she seemed no more than a grasshopper: the tiny chirrup of her voice was heard, about the middle of the night, asking them to take her and lay her among the roses, in the heart of one of the red roses, that there she and death might meet sweetly at the last.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
chirrup after chirrup mingled with the songs of the birds, and at last the bustling little figure of the lady lately seen at the Rectory window appeared at the door.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn