(1) There was a hushed twitter among the other Dukes, then silence.

(2) Drawing-room twitter

(3) For a minute or two there is nothing but the twitter of indigenous songbirds and the occasional distant laughter of fellow lovers of the game.

(4) Lizaveta is so victimized in her abused and tortured twitter that she can't gain our sympathy, especially when she acts like she doesn't understand she'd be better off without the crazy old coot.

(5) As the birds twitter in the winter air at dawn, a burly Iraqi grandmother in black makes bread in an open-air oven for an extended family of 20.

(6) Around her was a twitter of laughter and several odd looks.

(7) She wasn't a visitor to the forest, she was part of it - a small bit of herself in every shift of the wind, every leaf, every twitter of birdsong.

(8) His words were cut off by a faint electronic twitter

(9) And there was a twitter of laughter and that kind of thing.

(10) Inexplicably, digital noise reduction seems to have been used, which causes frequent twitter along the edges.

(11) A sweet twitter caught their attention, and Norise crossed to the open window.

(12) There wasn't any sound around besides my footsteps on the ground and the occasional twitter of birds.

(13) Cassie laughs, not a normal ÔÇÿha that's so funnyÔÇÖ laugh, but a more of a ditzy twitter .

(14) If she seeks to free women from domestic trivia, why twitter on about chintz?

(15) Birds twittered in the distance, their singing blending beautifully with the sound of the rippling water.

(16) Birds twittered happily, as if somehow this was all okay.

(17) There's a bit of nudging and jostling while they get comfortable on their roost, but then suddenly the twittering stops as though a conductor drops his baton after the final note, then silence.

(18) He heard, acutely, birds twittering , the sighing of the wind, the far off sounds of farmers in their distant fields, too distant to be of help.

(19) Endowed with a muscular alto that automatically storms to the top of its range on almost every song, she's nothing if not confident, and a lesson to the twittery Kylies of this world.

(20) The sun is shining, the birds are twittering , palm fronds are waving lazily in the breeze and waves are lapping the shoreline.