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Thus Summer waned, and in the mornings, crying Of wild geese startled Eunice, and their flying Whirred overhead for days and never stilled.

From Men, Women and Ghosts by Lowell, Amy

Round him busily hewed and hammered   Mallet huge and heavy axe; Workmen laughed and sang and clamored; Whirred the wheels, that into rigging   Spun the shining flax!

From The Children's Own Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Here and there the buzzing rattler Whirred a warning, head alert, Then retreated from the snapping, Stinging strokes of Billy's quirt.

From Nancy MacIntyre by Parker, Lester Shepard

Round him busily hewed and hammered     Mallet huge and heavy axe; Workmen laughed and sang and clamored; Whirred the wheels, that into rigging     Spun the shining flax!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Thereat, a light-winged arrow, unespied, Whirred on the wind.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax