I started up dreadfully frightened, For fear 'twas an Indian's call; And then very soon I remembered The red man ne'er whistles at all.
Little Brown Hands They drive home the cows from the pasture, Up through the long shady lane, Where the quail whistles loud in the wheat-fields, That are yellow with ripening grain.
Weary and sad I sit alone, The storm-god whistles shrill and high, And piles of sombre clouds are thrown O'er the blue curtains of the sky.
Why, I can buy those whistles for five cents anywhere in Washington!
Instantly, as if anticipating the inventions of the future, fifty steam whistles seemed to burst into full cry.
Railway whistles of the nineteenth century, intermittently explosive, is the only possible answer to the question, and that is but an approximation to the truth.
A teamster sitting dry inside his hood, whistles so cheerily that he can be heard at the farther sidewalk.
While Pitcairne whistles for his family estate in Fifeshire, he will do well if he will sound a few notes for me.
When the wind whistles free O'er the bright blue sea We stand to our guns all da-ay; When at anchor we ride By the starboard side, We've plenty of time for play.
The range continued to come down, and the whistles of the shells that flew over us grew into a regular shriek.
Then he teases my kitty, Like the bad boys do, By pulling her tail Till it's nearly in two; Then whistles and laughs When he hears her mew.
We got some dolls and whistles too, And then we played, and then we blew.
Relatively but few attempted it, for when the whistles sounded the alarm, the hills were too distant and the flood was too near.
At intervals during the night the sound of steam whistles tell of some new break, some new danger to face and overcome.
Instead of the stir of life, the brilliancy of electric lights, the scream of whistles and the rumbling of trains, there was a scattered wreck, and comparative silence.
You tell your engineer to go ahead carefully and give two long whistles if he sees anything dangerous.
Then we've got two croquet sets, and the boys make uswhistles and squalks.
There's no need to ask, For he finds such enjoyment indeed in his task, That he bubbles with laughter, and whistles and sings, While making and planning the beautiful things.
O'er rough and smooth she trips along, And never looks behind; And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.
But over the whistles Case could still hear a hum.
As it is, midnight finds me with an expiring lamp, while the wind whistles mournfully without; and over my cheerless table I piece together my tales, vainly hoping to produce a sequel to the Infernal Regions.
And, while the windwhistles under the eaves, I open my books and read; and lo!
The north wind whistles thro' the mulberry grove, Daily and nightly making moan for me; I look up to the shifting sky above, No little prattler smiling on my knee.
From high up among the hoodlums Mary caught, quite distinctly, long low whistles of very sensual admiration and such critical epigrams as "Wow!
The stertorous snore of the ferry whistles was uneasy, ominous: the spirit of the town's myriad anxieties.
Bone implements of all kinds and whistles made of the phalanges of oxen are also constantly found.
The reindeer phalanges, pierced to serve aswhistles (Fig.
From whistles to regular musical instruments the transition is simple.
The following morning the whistles shrieked as fiercely, the wheels went round as merrily as ever; two other children were in the places of the lost ones, and it was as if they had never been.
The hum of wheels has ceased; the crowd of labourers hurry out to their morning's meal; a few short minutes, and the discordant whistles again shriek out their call to work.
Now and then the wind whistles more shrilly through the crevices of the door, and the rain beats with greater force against the little window.
Then the screeching of five shrill whistles smote upon the summer stillness, the wheels came to an abrupt stop, and the five riders dismounted at a flying leap at the very edge of Colonel Witham's porch.
A few shrill whistles from Young Joe brought his companion to the door; and Tim Reardon was soon likewise equipped with bowl and spoon--but not before he had got his ducking at the kitchen pump, which he took with Spartan fortitude.
I whistles so's I won't be feared-- Oh lone de way, my dearie!
Drams to wet yo' whistles So 's to drive out chills.
As whistles are sometimes found in Magdalenian shelters in Western and Central Europe, it may be that these were at an early period connected with the beliefs about the calling back of the Cro-Magnon dead.
The ancientwhistles were made of hare--and reindeer-foot bone.
There were booths where peddlers sold whistlesof every kind and description; but they two, Edith and Rafael, were the only peddlers of tops.
The Chinese tie whistles under pigeons' wings, and when the birds fly they make a strange kind of humming or whistling noise.
The carters were yelling to their mules and the street hawkers were crying their wares, but above their noise the children could hear the humming of birds' whistles overhead.
The scrubby attorney whistles a tune, and utters an oath when he learns the principal is engaged.
As the old man looks back from the gate, the chill breeze whistles through the boughs of the oak above him, tearing off the brown dry leaves, and shaking out the acorns to fall at his feet.
Then the whistles blew, and five miles of British troops with fixed bayonets clambered over their trenches.
Whistles blew; our men swarmed over the parapets and rushed towards the German trenches.
All are eager for the fray; all long for the moment when the whistles will blow and the command will be given, "Over the parapet!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whistles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: distortion; feedback; flutter; fluttering; hissing; howling; hum; rumble; squeal; static; whistle
