siss
Example Sentences
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But it didn't seem to do any good, only to sizzle and siss, for just as soon as a pailful of water was dashed on, out they popped again, as bright as ever.
From The Adventures of Joel Pepper by Margaret Sidney
Well, Blanche," said Agnes archly, "confess, siss, who is the lord paramount, the beau par excellence, of the ball?
From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
She warn’t a bit skeart when the shock came; but braced herself up as cool as a cowcumber, and thar she’s ben, keeping them noisy folks quiet, and tendin’ her little siss like a Christian!”
From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
"Siss a great vhile I haf not done siss," she concluded, as her fingers began to drift over the keys, and then she sang, very gently, even guardedly, but oh, so sweetly!
From Strong Hearts by George Washington Cable
He watched it mutely; the flinging up of the dust around the wheels, the siss and roar and wind of its passing smote through him.
From Fairfax and His Pride by Marie Van Vorst
