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- 1985, Richard P[hillips] Feynman, Edward Hutchings, editor, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1997, →ISBN, page 140:
So I'm slicing beans one after the other—_chig_, chig, chig, chig, _chig_—and everybody's giving me the beans, and I'm going like sixty when the boss comes by and says, "What are you doing?"
- 1994, Glyn Parry, Monster Man, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Juniper, →ISBN, page 133:
She dragged him along the wide bitumen path and past the slow chig-chig-chig of a lawn sprinkler. Deep inside the school the insect chorus buzzed and drilled: chairs scraping, kids yelling, a teacher's voice calling the roll.
- 2001, Mitzi Szereto, “Melinda”, in Kerri Sharp, editor, Wicked Words 4: A Black Lace short-story collection, London: Black Lace, →ISBN, page 174:
No one had spoken in the taxi. The only sounds were those of the London rain pattering teasingly against the vehicle's rolled-up windows and the ever-present chig-chig-chig of the diesel engine as this silent threesome made their way north towards Mill Hill.
- 2004, John Chappell, “Su-Li, the Yangtse Boat Boy”, in 21 Fairy Tales and Other Tales, Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd, →ISBN, page 46:
The old trading-boat's continuous chig-chig-chigging was a friendly sound, and, by daylight, Su-Li took turns to steer the boat; yet there was often sufficient time for the boy to watch the water-buffalo in the plantations of the Red Basin, the patient stooping of the peasants, and, elsewhere, the bustle of the towns, their fishermen and their overcrowded ferries.
- 2016 February 18, “Species Spotlight: Red-bellied woodpecker”, in Poughkeepsie Journal[1], Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Gannett Co., Inc., →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-30:
Fun fact: The red-bellied woodpecker has a loud, harsh, rich "quirrr" call. It can also be heard calling a "chig-chig" series of notes in a descending chuckle.