whiz-z-z

Updated: May 1, 2025

"Whiz-z-z-z" started the ball from the fingers of the coupeurs "click" dropped the ball into a black department of the board; "clink! tingle!" cried the money, changing hands; but not a word said Auburn Risque, standing like a stalagmite with his eyes upon ten francs. "Whiz-z-z!" "click!" "click!" "tingle!"

George Alfred Townsend - Bohemian Days: Three American Tales

Not the drum, the bugle, or the fife, though these are thrilling, after their fashion; but the music of modern ordnance and projectile, the beautiful whistle of the minie-ball, the howl of shell that makes unearthly havoc with the air, the whiz-z-z of solid shot, the chirp of bullets, the scream of grape and canister, the yell of immense conical cylinders, that fall like redhot stoves and spout burning coals.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

"Good morning," banged four-point-seven; "have you used Long Tom?" "Crack-k whiz-z-z," came the riving answer, "we have." "Whish-h patter, patter," chimed in a cloud-high shrapnel from Bulwan. It was half-past seven in the morning of November 7; the real bombardment, the terrific symphony, had begun. During the first movement the leading performer was Long Tom.

G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens - From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War