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.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid
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; Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have, And not a man of them that we shall take Shall taste our mercy.
"King-Henry-V"
Shakespeare, William
Two minutes later another spark flashes out from the same spot, and a leaden messenger buries itself with a Skirr and a thud, within ten yards of the little group of officers.
"On the Heels of De Wet"
The Intelligence Officer