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Examples
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It contained neither the fine careless rapture, nor the spirit of independence, that comes from random whistlings in the street, like roosters ' bold calls in the morning.
You Know How to Whistle, Don Jan Morris 2010
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“Bartail” of Al – Kazwini near Borneo and quotes the Spaniard B.L. de Argensola (History of the Moluccas), who places near Banda a desert island, Poelsatton, infamous for cries, whistlings, roarings and dreadful apparitions, suggesting that it was peopled by devils (Stevens, vol. i., p. 168).
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The train-wreck sentences, the whistlings in the pipes, the alarming and bewildered handhold phrases—"My friends"—to get him through the next 10 seconds.
The Republican Party has invited not just defeat but discredit this year Stephen Retherford 2008
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Yes, in the field of politics, you are nothing but a herd of cattle as you are docile enough to be led by the nose as if by the hissing whistlings of the Pied Piper of Hamlyn.
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It is now believed that the only man capable of getting it all back on track is Zamfir and the sweet whistlings of his mystical pan flute.
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The train-wreck sentences, the whistlings in the pipes, the alarming and bewildered handhold phrases—"My friends"—to get him through the next 10 seconds.
Archive 2008-10-01 Stephen Retherford 2008
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And about us from every part there did come the strange burstings and shriekings and whistlings of the boil of the waters breaking upward from the deep world.
The Night Land 2007
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Beast or Creature should come upon us; and alway with the fire-holes before and behind, and in the air of the Gorge the little whistlings of steam that did spirt out in this place and that; and a good warmth in many parts, by reason of the fires; and odd whiles a smelling of sulphur; but not greatly, nor to our trouble.
The Night Land 2007
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And there came also from them whistlings, and from the second one a low and strange moaning noise; and I doubted not the gas did come oddly and with trouble.
The Night Land 2007
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He imitated the manner of his old master with ludicrous exaggeration; repeating, with pauses and half-whistlings interjected,
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