Yet I was powerless to do anything, except gaze upwards at the stars, which appeared to swish wildly backwards and forwards, as if attempting to fall in with the gait of the camel.
Then I distinctly heard the swish of the water at the bridge, and day was just breaking as we swept under it.
The swish of their tails was like the grace of a trailing kimono worn by the ladies of long ago, while their fins suggested the sleeves of a geisha girl.
The mornings found us there again, listening to the swish of the waves as the boat slowly rose and sank on the long Pacific swell.
I had smoked one cigar in the cabin, listening to the tremendous throb of the ship's screws, and the swish of the sea as we cleaved it, when the electric light went out, and I was left in darkness.
They were firing with a machine-like regularity, and every minute came the heavy bark of the gun, followed by the swish of the shell, as it flew in a high arc and then smashed over the German lines.
Some of the French officers, tramping by the side of their men, shouted through the swish of the gale: "Courage, mes petits!
Suddenly the swish of paddles sounded and, with a creaking noise, the canoe pushed out of the clay and back into the stream.
He had no sooner settled himself, however, than he heard the soft swish of a footstep coming up the stair.
The air was full of the sounds of rain, the thin swish of its fall, the heavier drip from the eaves, and the swirl and gurgle down the two steep gutters and through the sewer grating.
Indeed, it was high time we were on our way to shelter, for even as I spoke there came the sudden, steady swish of the shower.
For a space there was only the bumping and straining of the yacht and the swish of the water against her sides.
By its curvature I knew it to be a knee, and thus I came to the caulked sides of the vessel, and for the first time heard the rattling thud and swish of water on the far side of it.
For a moment, amid the bleak utility of the stores, I half fancied the swish of a broidered petticoat and the whisper of a painted fan, smelt Eau de Chypre and heard the Minuet in Ariadne.
Soon he heard the jangle of pails, the swish of mops and from time to time the sound of a horse's hoof striking the cobbles with a clap.
Owing to this attention, they heard presently the creak of the stairs, the soft opening of the front door, and even the swish of feet on the grass.
She could hear the flap, flap of the canvas of the tents off in the camp, a thin veil of mist was obscuring the stars, the pound of the surf was growing louder and the swish of the water on the beach more surly.
No sound save the swish of the water about them was to be heard.
We heard the swishof the boughs, heavy with new snow, and then silence.
Let us admit that in 1876, or whenever it was, his taste in poetry inclined to the swish of De Musset, that it very likely never got any further.
All this swish and clatter of insult reminds one a little of Papa Karamazoff.
There was a swish of steel, too, like a sword whipped out of its scabbard, but almost at the instant when this was heard the door was opened.
There was a swish and crash of undergrowth, a hobbling stamp, and something that sounded like the smiting of leaves with a club.
Before Nap's worried eyes, a little swish of white catapulted over the plate.
It was after eleven o'clock when he returned, and it was almost five minutes later when the special, with its private car, rumbled by with a swish of dust and cinders.
Again that flat padded applause marked theswish of cloths on clothes-line as Jimmy and Kathleen drew the curtains.
Princess rapidly; and they heard the swish of her silk train moving across the room.
Through the darkness could be heard the sound of shuffling, hobnailed boots, and even above the crack of the guns there came the weird swish of the grey coats as they pushed forward in mass formations.
Suddenly there was a roaring swish as a rocket soared upward from the Captain's bridge, leaving a comet's tail of fire.
Here he began, and the creak of his reel, and the swish of his rod, were music to him, after the whirl of London life.
He heard the swishand smash of their retreat grow distant, disperse.
He said he would certainly swish me if I deserved it, and I said I would certainly kill him if he did.
Now and again there was a sense of something white flying near, and wild rustle of draperies, and a swish of disturbed leaves as they whirled past us.
The wind whipped up noisy little wavelets, and the cluck and clatter of these among the pebbles, the swish of the rushes and the freshening of the breeze against our faces, roused us.
The swish of silk on the floor sounded in the hall, and the servants ran back and forth, receiving wraps and putting numbers on them, as at the theater, to stow them away in the parlor that had been converted into a coat-room.
In his ears, the swish of skirts, the movement of fans, the greetings, the praise of his good taste sounded like caressing music.
The swish of her skirts scattered their wake of perfumes in the studio for the last time.
He heard the swish again--this time very near--it was some one coming down the stairs!
All at once there was the swish of a garment against the door.
THE GATES OF THE WORLD Stillness in the Meeting-house, save for the light swish of one graveyard-tree against the window-pane, and the slow breathing of the Quaker folk who filled every corner.
A whistling, whirringswish swept startlingly near his own plane, now at last rising high over the ruins of the oval, forty yards of which were scattered over the earth.
Also they heard the whirring swish of the passing squadron as it circled over the buildings.
