" The Sergeant whistled softly, rose, and led the way to the door.

At his word the company fell to their ranks and forthwith swung off again south and by east, what time Giles carolled blithely, and divers chorused lustily: while Roger whistled and even grim Walkyn (bethinking him of Gui of Allerdale) rumbled hoarsely in his hairy throat.

There was another spurt of flame and a bullet whistled over his head.

" He moved toward the companionway, and as he did so, a bullet whistled by his ear.

It seems a mean kind of warfare, I admit, but 'tis a kind we must get accustomed to, if we are to fight the French and Indians;" and he walked on along his rounds, speaking a word of encouragement here and there, and seemingly quite unconscious of the bullets which whistled about him.

He turned around and whistled through his teeth.

Whenever a steamer whistled Mr. Moore ran to the dock to get the bundle of newspapers the boat brought, and hurry with it back to the office.

No sea captain becalmed in the doldrums ever whistled for a wind more earnestly than the British Jack tars prayed for a chance at the enemy during those three months of playing the cat to Germany's mouse; and on the other hand, the German sailors were, no doubt, equally desirious of a chance to demonstrate the fighting abilities of their brand-new battleships.

So saying, he twirled his stout staff till it whistled again.

But Little John turned his footsteps back again to Sherwood Forest, and merrily he whistled as he strode along.

And he twirled his staff in his fingers till it whistled again.

Rousing at last to the sinister significance of the tune, he ordered its cessation, in rosy-hued terms, and commended all such Yankee tunes and those that whistled them to that region where popular rumor has it that pots boil with or without watching.

Trees were stiff with frost; the wind whistled and jeered through them and about sharp crags, filling the crisp air with eerie, shuddersome music.

XXXVII They looked and saw a lengthening road, and wain 325 That rang down a bare slope not far remote: The barrows glistered bright with drops of rain, Whistled the waggoner with merry note, The cock far off sounded his clarion throat; But town, or farm, or hamlet, none they viewed, 330 Only were told there stood a lonely cot A long mile thence.

Harry whistled, and when Bolton came up, Windham fastened the rope's end to his horns, and let him go.

" Mr. Wood stopped talking for a few minutes, and whistled a tune.

He threw himself down, and whistled for his horse, and shouted for help, but no one came.

Bob whistled, and Bumble exclaimed: "Well, for goodness gracious sakes!

He ducked neatly; the stick whistled through thin air; and before Duchemin could recover the other had turned and was running for dear life.

The bedizened porter whistled fatuously at a passing taxicab, which though fareless held steadfast to its way, while the driver acknowledged the signal only with jeers and disgraceful gestures, after the manner of his kind.

The Major whistled softly and walked to the window.

I want to know if she has forgotten me; if there is any hope for me!" Howard looked at him compassionately, and whistled softly.

Without, the wind whistled through the naked trees and whirled up spiral columns of leaves; the river below was cased in ice; the passers-by looked pinched with cold, and cast hurried glances over their shoulders at the ill-fated house and the adjacent burying-ground.

The charge of buckshot whistled after him, spattering viciously through the twigs, and several of the bolder spirits in the gang at once raised a half-hearted cry of "Murder!"

As it was, the charge whistled over me just as I fell, and a devilish unpleasant noise it made too.