whiffle

Example Sentences

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Then the snow Whirled all about—dense, multitudinous, cold— Mixed with the wind's one devilish thrust and shriek, Which whiffled out men's tears, defeated, took hold, Flattening the flying drift against the cheek.

From Modern British Poetry by Untermeyer, Louis

A fast train whiffled through the town and they baggage-hooked a mailbag off the car at about a hundred and fifty per.

From Highways in Hiding by Smith, George Oliver

Her masts curved and whiffled beneath the immense piles of canvas, like a stringed bow.

From The Portland Sketch Book by Various

That night I watched the poppling brew, With bended back and hand on knee: I stirred it till the dawnlight grew, And the wind whiffled wailfully.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

Some were merely hunting country, and were ready to be whiffled off toward any neck of the woods which might be puffed up by a wayside acquaintance as ignorant about it as he.

From Vandemark's Folly by Quick, Herbert