chirring

She could smell the heavy scent of flowers, and the soft chirring of insects.

Shocked silence except for the armor's quiet chirring, as Kirk flexed his arm.

The chirring of night insects filled the air, accompanied by the sound of the horse sucking water.

Except for the chirring of frogs and the grunting of gators, everything was quiet.

We were accompanied by the chirring of crickets and the scent of eucalyptus trees.

She heard the soft chirring of insects and the plashing of the sculpted waterfalls.

The day was warm and still but for the chirring of insects and the trilling of distant birds.

Changes came already-she felt them against her skin, inside her blood, in the chirring of the tiny bones within her ears.

The noise of its twin screws was a high-pitched chirring, audible above the whine of its motors.

The birds' brief autumn music died away; only the dry chirring of a distant squirrel broke the silence, and the faint tinkle of the cow-bell.

Guru Vashishta had magically enhanced the ability to hear him over the sounds of the river and the chirring of hummingbirds in the thicket downstream.

Because of the significance of the summer season to the story, Omori deliberately loaded the film with summer scenes, such as rustling leaves and chirring of cicadas.

The only other sounds are the soft splashes of fish jumping, the calls of wading birds and the beating of their wings, and the chirring of insects.

So far, though, the night had been quiet, only the chirring of insects around him and, in the woods, the odd howl or shriek of the night-hunters or their quarry.

They heard a high, distant whistling, and two seconds later, in the usual rhythm so well known to hunters, a second, a third, and after the third whistle came a chirring.

Except for the faint chirring of night birds and the occasional insect, there was none of the clicking of crickets or roars of predatory beasts he had expected to hear.

AC Sherpa (Ang Chirring Sherpa, born in Nepal) is veteran mountaineer who successfully ascent all seven summits in 42 climbing days.

Always there had been something that had made some sort of noise - the chirring of a lone insect in the quiet of a summer noon, or the rustle of a leaf.

Her retreating steps are so silent that they are lost behind the chirring of the insects in the rocks that line the road combined with the gentle hissing of the waves upon the sand.

The morning was quiet enough for him to hear the chirring of insects, the squawk of the go-away birds, the sough of the breeze through the feathery leaves of the jacaranda whose powerful branches arched above him.

Darkness closed in, the crowds thickened again, and Mingolla continued his walk, strolling past stalls with necklaces of light bulbs strung along their frames, wires leading off them to generators whose rattle drowned out the chirring of frogs and crickets.

The small sentences, my telling him that I would fetch more firewood, or his observation that the chirring of the insects was actually pleasant after our silent nights on the glacier, seemed to float like isolated bubbles on the quiet that separated us.

He tried to get his mind off Gringers by concentrating on the night sounds around the lake, the chirring of insects, the splash of a fish or frog leaping out of the water, the deep cough of a draak as it cleared its mouth and throat of water after a dive.

I sat there stupid, not moving, not wanting to move, sitting there trying to absorb and put together all the strange happenings, listening with half an ear to the sound of wind in the pines that grew just down the hill, the shrill chirring of a startled chipmunk, the squalling of a jay.

In 2008 Fredrik Sträng took part in the International K2 expedition, with 8 members (Mike Farris, Chris Klinke, Tim Horvath, Dr Eric Meyer, Chirring Dorje Sherpa, Chris Warner, Paul Walker and Sträng himself).