The swish of its tail is stilled.

Suddenly there came to her ears the sound of something swishing through the air.

The slender tops fairly flapped and swished in the passionate torrent, bending and swirling backward and forward, round and round, tracing indescribable combinations of vertical and horizontal curves, while I clung with muscles firm braced, like a bobolink on a reed.

Kew's was the louder swish by right.

It was good to visit that spot this morning and to find that the water no longer swished from side to side.

Bullets are flicking the tops of the sandbags on the parapet in hundreds, whilst white streaks are shooting up with a swish into the sky and burst into bright radiating blobs of lightthe star shell at its best.

And with that she swished out of the office and left him flat.

The storm still swept straight west from Hudson's Bay, bringing with it endless volleys of snow, round and hard as fine shot; snow that had at first seemed to pierce his flesh, and which swished past his feet, as if trying to trip him, and tossed itself in windrows and mountains in his path.

A thin, cold rain was falling, swishing among the tall poplar trees and rustling in the fields on either side.

Another blow, driven home with equal power and precision on the opposite side, made the tree shudder to its top, and the third blow sent it swishing to the earth.

"Yes; and a skirt swished around the corner with him," declared Belle impressively.

I felt the ship stagger as if a whale had struck her, and heard a roar and a swish behind me, and looked backjust in time to see mizen, and poop, and all the poor women and children in it, go bodily, as if they had been shaved off with a knife.