Before they reached the new wall, faint voices began to whistle and chitter in his helmet.

They ran from the room, leaving the medicomputer to chitter on indignantly to itself.

The Things started to chitter nervously and one or two at the back started to lurch away.

He was conscious again, but so weak he could chitter only faintly.

They tremble and chitter at the edges of the compartment, darting about.

Only in those cases, there were usually a few birds left to chitter and chirp in the rubble.

Favel considered the question of taboo and finally allowed himself to chitter words and phrases at him in order to get food.

She did not appear to be inconvenienced by the bats that still entered at dawn to chitter out again at dusk.

Then Fletcher saw a spider with a large speaking trumpet climb onto the su-perstructure of it ship to chitter loudly at them.

Jumper revived enough to chitter weakly.

I could build them a ship, I tell them, and they chitter and click but do not assent.

She nearly blasted the imp that was laughing as it tugged, but it began to chitter, "On the path.

And felt warmth as the creature seemed to slide in some way up her arm to her shoulder and there chitter into her very ear.

The babies would chitter and scramble over the indulgent, somnolent bodies of the adults, and nip little bites from the dead animal.

The Sateons had not had to chitter across the river, just back the way they had come, and they had summoned their airborne ally!

The demon seized the blade and began to chitter in high-pitched laughter, All of the demon but its right leg had pulled free of the wall.

He paused to chitter at the piece he held, and it evidently understood the invocation, because it merged seamlessly into the main mass of the forming picture.

Perched on central cables from Hyperion to Mnemosyne, those Dione Supras who were gathered around the little radios began to chitter excitedly.

The ground squirrel that called the crevice his home came shooting out of his burrow, tail high and stiff, bounding with rage, to chitter angrily at her.

Heaps of garbage, old clothes and broken furniture stood piled on street corners, and rats scurried about by the score, sometimes pausing to chitter fearless challenges at them.

The gnarled thing in the pit was ascending steadily, and the bug-covered walls started to wildly chitter in frenzied discord, like a crowd cheering the arrival of its ruler.

But there wasn't time to think about what she'd just done, even though she wanted to chitter in panic like a mindless larva and scrub and scrub the stains from her claws.

But you men of Gibil would reduce your great gods to small gods, your small gods to demons, your demons to ghosts that chitter and flitter and are in a generation forgotten.

The guards, who had frozen in postures of startled menace, their powerful, segmented arms raised, hastily turned to chitter to each other, glancing her way with sharp, insectile jerks of their heads, segmented eyes studying her.