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Updated: May 19, 2025
The next moment Frank's rod bent like a hoop, and the line flew through the rings with whirring rapidity, filling these lonely solitudes for the first time with the pleasant "music of the reel."
But it was not until the wild ducks rose through the phantom light and came whirring in from the sea that his gun, poked stiffly skyward, flashed in the pallid void. And then, sometimes, he hobbled back after the dead quarry while it still drove headlong inland, slanting earthward before the gale.
The whirring of invisible wings and the movement of the wind in the low branches become one and the same: it is an epic, told in some strange tongue, an epic filled to overflowing with tragedy, with poetry and mystery. The cloth of this drama is woven from many-colored threads, for Nature is lavish with her pigment, reckless with life and death.
Our stand of arms was there, and we immediately seized them, sending the bullets flying just above their heads and at their feet. The report of the weapons and the whirring sound of the swiftly passing shots made them pause, and they began an harangue, ordering us out of their territories, to the south.
"I would like to see the sentry," he said with difficulty. And so again, and for the last time, Rosa's soldier from Salzburg with one lung. Through all that long day, then, Harmony sat over her work, unaccustomed muscles aching, the whirring machines in her ears. Monia, upset over the morning's excitement, was irritable and unreasonable.
Whichever side you walk in the woods the partridge bursts away on whirring wings, jarring the snow from the dry leaves and twigs on high, which comes sifting down in the sunbeams like golden dust, for this brave bird is not to be scared by winter.
There the Gayandi swung, making a whirring noise. 'What's that? said the women. 'We'll have a look what it is. Seeing Byamee they said, 'We heard voices in that big tree over there. 'Whereabouts? he said. 'In that Coolabah tree. Such strange voices, such as we never heard. 'You two go' he said, 'to our camp and make a fire. I'll go and see what it is.
"I could put a name to nearly every musician at work in Nature's orchestra yonder." "What was that horrible cry?" I whispered. "Jaguar or puma?" "Neither, my boy; only a heron or crane somewhere up the stream." "That snorting croak, then?" "Only frogs or toads, Nat; and that chirruping whirring is something in the cricket or cicada way.
Jorian stood on guard with his knife, waving the blade slowly before him in the shape of a long-bodied letter S. Boris poised his weapon in the hollow of his hand, and sent it whirring straight at Jorian's heart.
She disturbed a flock of parrots in the white cedar tree, and a covey of duck rose with a whirring of pinions and a mighty quacking, shaking the drips off their plumage so that they glittered like diamonds in the sun. From the limbs of the dead gum tree hung flying foxes, their bat-like wings extended limply, and a gigantic crane stood in melancholy reflection upon one leg.
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