Whistles
[ˈhwislz]
Examples
- So he whistles it off and marches on. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the very peculiar words of the dying woman? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is frightful--this taking to buying whistles and blowing them in everybody's hearing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He always whistles to the dog and gives him a caress. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The music rises and whistles louder and louder; the mariners go across the stage staggering, as if the ship was in severe motion. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I see a young lady who pins her collar straight, laces her boots neatly, and neither whistles, talks slang, nor lies on the rug as she used to do. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He opened and closed it so that the locomotive’s whistles resembled the dots and dashes of the telegraph code. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But he whistles that off like the rest of it and marches home to the shooting gallery. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If my mother-in-law blows him up, he whistles. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Edited by Angelina