bullet-whistling

Updated: May 29, 2025

A few minutes later to the immense disgust of the doughboys, a company of English Tommies who by all rules of right and reason should have been the ones to clean up the mutinous mess into which the British officers had gotten the S. B. A. L.'s, now hove into sight, coming up the recently bullet-whistling but now deadly quiet street, with rifles slung on their shoulders, crawling along slowly at sixty to the minute pace instead of a riot-call double time, and singing their insulting version of "Over There the Yanks are Running, Running, everywhere, etc."

Lewis E. Jahns - The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki: Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919