1 The whole tree hummed with the whizz they made, as if each bird plucked a wire.
2 A whizz, a buzz rose from the bird-buzzing, bird-vibrant, bird-blackened tree.
3 The tree became a rhapsody, a quivering cacophony, a whizz and vibrant rapture, branches, leaves, birds syllabling discordantly life, life, life, without measure, without stop devouring the tree.
4 There, it is nine o'clock, she interrupted, hearing a whizz and a dinging downstairs.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 5 I threw my head back to a glinting whizz that traversed the pilot-house, in at one shutter-hole and out at the other.
6 He was continually imagining that a cannon ball was flying toward him with a terrific whizz, and then he shuddered and sat up.
7 Faster, faster, faster, it whizzed, whirred, buzzed, till all the flails became one flail and up soared the plane away and away.
8 While she remained thus, overcome by her forebodings, the old clock indoors whizzed forth twelve strokes.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 9 As I passed the corner which leads from Bentinck Street on to the Welbeck Street crossing a two-horse van furiously driven whizzed round and was on me like a flash.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 10 Something whizzed sharply by his very ear, and at the same instant there was the sound of a shot.
11 The command to form up rang out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards.
12 They fired a shot apiece as they started, but their bullets whizzed by and didn't do us any harm.
13 The bell rung, the steamer whizzed, the engine groaned and coughed, and away swept the boat down the river.
14 The whizzing of shafts and of missiles, on both sides, was only interrupted by the shouts which arose when either side inflicted or sustained some notable loss.
15 Lo, he all the fiercer was poising another weapon high by his ear; while they hesitate, the spear went whizzing through both Tagus' temples, and pierced and stuck fast in the warm brain.