You give me your word you wouldn't cheep about my forgettin' an' runnin' in here.
"The Reclaimers"
Margaret Hill McCarter
They are afraid to cheep.
"A Daughter of the Land"
Gene Stratton-Porter
The "Black Boy" existed as a shop-sign before tobacco's triumph, for Henry Machyn in his "Diary," so early as December 30, 1562, mentions a goldsmith "dwellying at the sene of the Blake Boy, in the cheep"; but the early sellers of tobacco soon fastened on this appropriate sign.
"The Social History of Smoking"
G. L. Apperson