"Whizz" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... souls did from their bodies fly,— 220 They fled to bliss or woe! And every soul, it passed me by, Like the whizz of my cross-bow!" ...
— Selections from Five English Poets • Various
... left Jim's hand with a whizz, and Billings stepped out to meet it. Just what happened no one saw clearly for a moment, it all came to pass so quickly. Then an Irish yell from Murty O'Toole woke the echoes, even as the bowler's ...
— Mates at Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... my auto!" cried Curly Tail. "It goes like everything!" and he wound it up, and whizz! it went ...
— Curly and Floppy Twistytail - The Funny Piggie Boys • Howard R. Garis
... "Gee whizz!" said the old man, rubbing his eyes with his cap, as his friend passed out of sight, "oats fer Christmas! G'lang, ...
— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis
... When each opines himself, though frighten'd, right, Each is, in courtesy, oblig'd to fight! And they did fight: from six full measured paces The unbeliever pulled his trigger first; And fearing, from the braggart's ugly faces, The whizzing lead had whizz'd its very worst, Ran up, and with a duelistic fear (His ire evanishing like morning vapors), Found him possess'd of one remaining ear, Who in a manner sudden and uncouth, Had given, not lent, the other ear to truth; For while the surgeon was applying ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
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