Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Chirping
Chirping like a cricket.
—Anonymous
Chirping like a gay Cicala in a sunny bower.
—John Stuart Blackie
Chirp … like new-fledged linnet.
—Austin Dobson
Chirping as chirp the birds beneath the eaves.
—Victor Hugo
Chirping, like the dry
High-elbow’d grigs that leap in summer grass.
—Alfred Tennyson