pipe up

"You seem to have a lot to say," remarked Silver, spitting far into the air. "Pipe up and let me hear it, or lay to."

[T]he frogs in a neighboring marsh began to pipe up for the evening concert.

Once, for ten minutes, the sun shone at midday, and ten minutes afterward a new gale was piping up.

Yet beyond turning my blood cold for a moment, it gave me little trouble, for evil tales have hung about the church; and though I did not set much store by the old yarns of Blackbeard piping up his crew, yet I thought strange things might well go on among the graves at night. And so I never budged, nor stirred hand or foot to save a fellow-creature in his agony.