At last we came to a part that was dangerous; the enemy commanded it from the Kaiser Bagh, and the musket shots were whistling about, so some soldiers advised my dismounting and walking through the trenches which had been cut for us.
The buck raised his head; looked around him; uttered a hiss, somewhat like the whistling of deer; and struck the ground a smart rap or two with his hoof.
We flew to him in every crisis, flying back occasionally in laughter and indignation, with the storm of his disapproval still whistling in our ears.
The pavement on the quay was broken and rough, we splashed into pools, we jolted into crevasses, we bent our heads to the whistling storm, we reached the market at last.
He goes whistlingdown the street on the wind in the early morning.
It was built so tall that it was but little lower than the low upper storey of the gaol, and it faced my window at so short a distance that I could hear the long, whistling breath of the wretch who happened to occupy it.
And can you not hear, sir, the whistling and the laughter and the sound of the falling trees, that merry time when Smith made axemen of all our fine gentlemen?
Compared with those of the Old World we had left, they were as cannon to the whistling of arrows, as breakers on an iron coast to the dull wash of level seas.
The weapon became in his hands a flail, terrible to look upon, making lightnings and whistling in the air, but in reality not so deadly as it seemed.
Before us loomed the Santa Teresa; we passed so close beneath her huge black sides that we heard the wind whistling through her rigging.
Young Hamor strode by, bravely dressed and whistling cheerily, and doffed a hat with a most noble broken feather.
A whistlingcould be heard now upon the deep vibrating noise outside.
The sloop-owners had linked arms with the defeated captains, and were walking off toward their respective boats, whistling a gay little air.
Tis the whistlingof the wind through the crannies of the tower--a serenading which makes one's teeth chatter, and one's nails turn blue.
On the contrary, knowing that the sloop must have got clear of the harbour by that time, he went along the streets whistling cheerfully.
The wind was whistling with what may be termed a vicious sound among the beams, to one of which Ruby was obliged to cling to prevent his being carried away.
When Ruby Brand reached the outskirts of Arbroath, he checked his speed and walked into his native town whistling gently, and with his hands in his pockets, as though he had just returned from an evening walk.
I don't like anything better than to listen to the whistling of the wind when I am snug in bed.
When one of my hands is whistling I always know he is pitchin' in.
Among his audience (still excepting Mr. Jarvis, who was tickling one of the cats and whistling a plaintive melody) there was a tendency toward awkward silence.
Give me pen and paper, Comrade Windsor, instruct Comrade Maloney to suspend his whistling till such time as I am better able to listen to it; and I think we have got a success.
If that guy whistling back up yonder thinks he can do better than these boys, he can come right down into the ring.
No sounds broke the peace of the outer office except the whistling of Master Maloney.
Hang the fellow, thought I, what is he humming and whistling about?
Anyhow, I was relieved when he went down the stairs, and his vacuous whistling died on the air.
When he was tired of humming he began whistling, and his whistling was more intolerable than his humming, for it was noisier.
So the Princess stopped where she was, and the old man wentwhistling round to the back of the house driving his cows before him.
So the soldier went one way, and Treblo went back to the house whistling ‘When the king shall enjoy his own again.
I'll have none of your Jacobite thoughts here; no, not even so much as the whistling of their inflammatory tunes!
Ruth, not minding her Uncle Jabez's strictures, went about setting the supper table with puckered lips, whistling softly.
It is: "'Whistling girls and blatting sheep Are the two best things a farmer can keep!
If you ever hear a troupe of titmice whistling Peto over and over again for hours at a time, you will pity poor Schumann and fear a similar fate for the birds.
When they rise on whistling wings from tree-bordered fields, where they have been feeding on seeds and grain, not a gun is fired: no one cares to eat them.
On the slightest alarm they bound from the water on whistling wings and are off at a speed that only the most expert shot overtakes.
And that all day he heard of nothing else, but the daughters of the house, and the maids, humming it over in every corner, and the father whistling it.
But he had no suspicion, clearly, for he turned and went away, whistling as he went.
But only my own voice came back to me, and the whistling of the wind through the window I had opened.
He was whistling a snatch of song when he let himself into the house and went upstairs.
Micky was whistling a snatch of a love-song under his breath.
The shots multiplied, with much shouting and uproar, soon sounding on both sides and ahead and behind me, while the whistling language shrilled from every gully and hillside.
In watching the sandpiper rise from the white beach and dart across the water, in listening to his sweet, whistling "peet-weet!
As before, their ears were tickled afar off by the sound of a tuneful voice alternately whistling and singing, though to-day it was unaccompanied by the woodchopper's axe.
Withdrawing the stick from the enlarged aperture, he flung it away and scrambled to his feet, whistling to the dog.
He halted on the first footstep, whistlingblithely to a gray-winged yellow-legs that skimmed above his head.
You must not speak like that," said Archy, as he encountered Ram on deck next morning, whistling softly as he neatly coiled down a rope.
The boy was in capital spirits, and he was whistling merrily, his shrill notes echoing from the flat roof as he came on swinging his lanthorn in one hand, the basket in the other.
There was an interval of thinking over this knotty question, during which the low whistling went on.
Ram came up, whistling softly, and looking sharply from one to the other.
The dull sound of departing steps, and a low whistling sound coming down through the skylight window into the cabin where Archy Raystoke lay with his heavy eyelids pressed down by sleep.
And there sat Felix by the fire, with Theodore at his feet, humming in rivalry of the big kettle, which had just been brought in, and was soon followed by Lance, whistling as he came upstairs.
