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Say, what is the spell, when her fledglings are cheeping, That lures the bird home to her nest?

From Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life by Moses, Belle

Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping, That lures the bird home to her nest?

From Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Carroll, Lewis

Over the grain-fields they go, over the meadows and back again straight to the nest where downy babies are cheeping for them.

From The Adventures of a Grain of Dust by Hawksworth, Hallam

And the ducks are cheeping, soft little murmurs while they're sleeping, sleeping.

From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene