skirr

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His story begins with a martial skirr in the Peking of 1922.

From Time Magazine Archive

Andrew Motion, Britain's poet laureate since 1999, selected skirr, which refers to the rattling, scratchy noise that a bird's wings make during flight.

From Time Magazine Archive

His orders were to skirr the mountain country between the Catawba and the Yadkin, harass the whigs, inspirit the tories, and embody the militia under the royal banner.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington

These, with the constant skirr of the ground-crickets and the prolonged whine of the coyote, are the only sounds that salute them as they glide on—none of which are of a kind to cause alarm.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne

If they'll do neither, we will come to them, And make them skirr away, as swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.

From King Henry V by Shakespeare, William