A lively chitter-chatter was going on, after the fashion of such companies, when Wych Hazel came up, but a moment after the first notes of the music struck their ears, and all was as hushed as the moonlight itself.
"Wych Hazel"
Susan and Anna Warner
The sound of many voices, the ring of heavy laughter, the shuffle of feet over the tiles, the clang of the clerk's gong, the incessant chitter of a telegraph instrument that sped news to Chicago over the Courier's private wire, all these influences surcharged the heavy air with a nervous excitement that made men speak quickly and their eyes glitter under the brilliant lights of countless electric bulbs.
"Her Infinite Variety"
Brand Whitlock
Mowgli looked down with a smile, and imitated perfectly the sharp chitter-chatter of Chikai, the leaping rat of the Dekkan, meaning the dholes to understand that he considered them no better than Chikai.
"The Second Jungle Book"
Rudyard Kipling