whir
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Whir, pause, kachung, went the robot as it delivered another paper.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
"Whir, whir," went the wheel, so quickly that the flax could not collect its thoughts.
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
"Where the deities, avid of Is-ness, Resurge from the Flivvers that Were, While the wild Chaotical Whizness Gives place to a Cosmic Whir, "Do they relish this josh of the josses?
From Hermione's Group of Thinkers by Marquis, Don
Whir, hwėr, n. a sound from rapid whirling.—v.i. to whirl round with a noise.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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