"Whirring" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... There came a whirring in my head, and another blank interval; and when I regained my senses I knew that another period of time had passed, possibly months or even years. I stood on the palisade above the river, near the entrance of the caves; and the sun was bright above me; but there was ...
— Flight Through Tomorrow • Stanton Arthur Coblentz
... chafers whirring, A little piping of leaf-hid birds; A flutter of wings, a fitful stirring, A cloud to the ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
... silence followed. Sounds of traffic from the Embankment penetrated dimly to the room of the Assistant Commissioner; ringing of tram bells and that vague sustained noise which is created by the whirring of countless ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer
... been put on the qui vive by a quick rustling in front, followed by a loud whirring sound, as some half-a-dozen birds, which they had evidently been driving before them through the long grass in which they had kept out of sight, had now found themselves too much exposed in the shorter ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn
... middle in mud and water. He seized the prickly branches coiling about and above him; he gasped in prayerful pleading, the home teaching still strong in him; but there was no answer, save the crooning night-birds and the croaking frogs. Slimy things touched his torn flesh; whirring birds shot past him, disturbed in their night perches. The deadly odor, pungent and nauseous, of a thousand exhaling herbs, filled his nostrils. The darkness grew, instinct with threatening forms. He gasped, struggled, and in a fervent outburst of thanksgiving regained the dank mound. ...
— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan
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