"Chipper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nor the Kumpeney's, I reckon, Ye can't get ez square meal ez any on the Bay, Up at you place, whar the senset 'pears to beckon— Ez thet sharp allows in his airy sort o' way. Thar woz a place wor yer hash ye might hev wrestled, Kept by a woman ez chipper ez a jay— Warm in her breast all the morning sunshine nestled; Red on her cheeks ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte
... Tennessee a passel of scientists makes what this yere relative of Enright's deescribes as a 'Theological Survey' of some waste land he has on Gingham Mountain, an' finds coal. An' after that he's rich. Thus, in his old age, but chipper as a coopful of catbirds, he comes rackin' into town, allowin' he'll take a last look at his nephy, Sam, ...
— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis
... chipper and fair spoken that she got the hired men all under her thumb: they come to her and took her orders jist as meek as so many calves, and she traded at the store, and kep' the accounts, and she had her eyes everywhere, and tied up all the ends so tight that there wa'n't no gettin' 'round ...
— Masterpieces Of American Wit And Humor • Thomas L. Masson (Editor)
... put in good humor; cheer the heart, rejoice the heart; delight &c (give pleasure) 829. Adj. cheerful; happy &c 827; cheery, cheerly^; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper [U.S.]; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty^, jaunty, canty^; hedonic^; riant^; sprightly, sprightful^; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... of 'em all was he, Chipper an' han'som' an' trim, But I tossed up my head an' made fun ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various
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