chirk

How To Use chirk In A Sentence

• Not that anyone in particular expected "them poor Hayneses" to keep bright or "chirk up. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• Chirk, chirk, chirk, it went, the sound of a spoon being rapidly whisked round a basin. The Invisible Man
• It's only when you come she seems to chirk up a bit. Anne of Avonlea
• And such was the power of mercury and mind combined over matter that he would immediately chirk up and feel warm. Europe Revised
• 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
• 'Perhaps under the tables,' says young Angus, chirking up still more at this geniality. Somewhere in Red Gap
• Ayla lay awake under the starlit sky, staring up at the patterns of constellations and listening to the night sounds: the wind sifting through the trees, the soft liquid running of the river, the chirk of crickets, the harsh harumph of a bullfrog. The Plains of Passage
• And unlike Herbert his ministry was a long one: curacies in Chirk and Hanmer.
• Your staring looks, your blood, your "chirking," are accidentals. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett
• We were in the very centre of a prairie-dog town, but before I could formulate in my mind the probabilities of holes and broken legs, the chirk, chirk, chirking had fallen astern. Arizona Nights