There is joy in listening to the crickets chirp and tending a small subsistence farm NOT.

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You can tell the temperature (in Fahrenheit degrees) by listening to a cricket chirp.

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Before long, it joins a country lane than runs past rows of vines alive with the chirp of crickets.

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We don't talk about those kind of things before games, but obviously, in off days and in the morning, guys will throw a chirp in here or there.

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My kids' best hope for getting to school on time might be a new breed of Bluetooth gizmos that you attach to stray possessions to make them chirp on command.

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Earlier this summer an anonymous air-traffic controller filing a report to Chirp, the industry's confidential whistle-blowing agency, claimed that pilots of low-cost airlines were cutting corners to achieve flight timetables.

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The front Pirelli P-Zero Nero tires chirp like magpies.

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However, the canaries have started to chirp again.

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The cicadas chirp, the frogs croak.

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And the girls, three of them university students, are so silly: dreaming non-stop of love and marriage, practising astrology, obsessed by the men they never, or hardly ever, are allowed to see but with whom they chirp like crickets throughout the night on their mobile phones.

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