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  • There was nothing for it but to move the fat party up to the bow and repeat the whole thing a second time when what with the jumping and "siffling" and running we finally shot to the surface, whereupon the French Captain calmly turned around to us, and said, without a smile, "Voila!".

    A Glimpse Into A Submarine 1943

  • So we stopped "siffling" and going astern and had another conference, and decided that the "fat party" would have to be weeded out and put at the after end, where they would just have to jump up and down when the whistle went.

    A Glimpse Into A Submarine 1943

  • But, unfortunately, the bottom was very muddy and nothing would get us out even with a good deal of "siffling".

    A Glimpse Into A Submarine 1943

  • A good deal of "siffling" and a good deal of going full speed "en arriere", and so on, but nothing happened.

    A Glimpse Into A Submarine 1943

  • "It's a question of tyste," Miss Walbrook continued, sipping with a soft siffling noise in the way he considered to be ladylike.

    The Dust Flower Basil King 1893

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