skirr

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His story begins with a martial skirr in the Peking of 1922.

From Time Magazine Archive

Andrew Motion, Britain's poet laureate since 1999, selected skirr, which refers to the rattling, scratchy noise that a bird's wings make during flight.

From Time Magazine Archive

The household went to bed, and a silence fell upon the dwelling, broken only by the occasional skirr of a halter in Melbury's stables.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

Beyond the ring and roll of hell— And spiral lofts of quartz and gold— We skirr upon the crutch of haste And cleave the abyss, cold and bleak.

From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean

If they'll do neither, we will come to them, And make them skirr away, as swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.

From King Henry V by Shakespeare, William