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Definition of Cheruping
1. cherup [v] - See also: cherup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheruping
Literary usage of Cheruping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1816)
"Except in the very coldest weather, they never cease their cheruping, but continue
that little piercing note, which is as pleasing to some as it is ..."
2. Original Poems, for Infant Minds by Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor, O'Keeffe (Adelaide) (1834)
"... while the old birds are gone out to get food, We'll take down the nest, and
the cheruping brood, And divide them betwixt thee and me. ..."
3. An Historical and Descriptive Account of British America: Comprehending by Hugh Murray (1839)
"... and often provoking them to destroy it on account of its angry cheruping noise,
by which it is apt to alarm the other inhabitants of the forest. ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1835)
"The cheruping lark rises from the dewy grass; he stops, and his unconscious voice
bursts out in a shout of imitative rapture. ..."
5. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"The birds Frame to thy song their cheerful cheruping, Or hold their peace for
shame of thy sweet lays. The cheerful birds of sundry kind SPENSER. ..."
6. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes : Authors by Samuel Austin Allibone (1896)
"The birds Frame to thy song their cheerful cheruping, Or hold their peace for
shame of thy sweet lays. The cheerful birds of sundry kind SPENSER. ..."
7. Illustrations of Political Economy.: By Harriet Martineau by Harriet Martineau (1834)
"The crimson light of the dawn, the glittering of the dew on the shrubs, and the
cheruping of the waking birds, were so beautiful a contrast to tfie ..."
8. Portland Magazine by Ann Sophia Stephens (1835)
"We certainly did cut a most ridiculous figure u we passed down State-street—Mr.
Johnson shaking the reins and cheruping the poor horse along—his wife ..."
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