The paint had faded from the door and the knocker was rusty; as Peter hammered his arrival on to the flat silence a bird flew from the black bunch of trees, Whirred into the air and was gone....
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
On the white road, quite a long way off, yet audible in that noble stillness, hoofs rang, wheels Whirred.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
A gape fly, which somehow had gotten through the screen, hit the lieutenant's forehead, fell on to the book and Whirred up against the wire.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle