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Whistled Taft strategists as they rounded a curve: "The best chance the party has to win the 1948 election is to stage a completely unbossed convention."

From Time Magazine Archive

Thorberg Skafting, master-builder, In his ship-yard by the sea, Whistled, saying, "'Twould bewilder Any man but Thorberg Skafting, Any man but me!"

From Tales of a Wayside Inn by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

"The while amid the greenwood Whistled the summer breeze Fair Mantua's maiden swore to wed Her loving Genoese."

From Confessions of Boyhood by Albee, John

I thought, true as steel, They would both come to heel, Making up for the pack Whistled off by false MAC, As though he'd ever shoot with my patience and skill!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 by Various

But hark, how the blast Whistled then as it passed!

From Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir by Murray, Robert F. (Robert Fuller)