"Cheep" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it She fancied she heard a step in the yard, but the yard window was at her back, and she would not look behind. She listened, but heard nothing more except a see-sawing noise from the stable, where the mare was running her rope in the manger ring. Nothing but this and the cheep-cheep of a mouse that was gnawing the ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine
... Still, still the streets, between their carcanets Of linking gold, are avenues of sleep. But see how gable ends and parapets In gradual beauty and significance Emerge! And did you hear That little twitter-and-cheep, Breaking inordinately loud and clear On this still, spectral, exquisite atmosphere? 'Tis a first nest at matins! And behold A rakehell cat—how furtive and acold! A spent witch homing from some infamous dance - Obscene, quick-trotting, ...
— Poems by William Ernest Henley • William Ernest Henley
... of the open. We are the birds in the russet meadow, and the whispering of the orchard trees, the cheep of the crickets in the long grass, and the whole humming, throbbing voice of out-of-doors. Take our kiss upon ...
— The Happy Venture • Edith Ballinger Price
... bird alighted upon the window-sill, and, in what he no doubt considered sleepy tones, enunciated the noise generally translated as "cheep!" ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry
... and cheep To their loves on the leafless larch; But seven feet deep the snow-wreaths sleep, And the year hath not ...
— The Posy Ring - A Book of Verse for Children • Various
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