whizz-the lead fairly splashed around us!
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
Just as he had puffed two or three small clouds of smoke, and was preparing to enjoy himself to the fullest extent, a flash suddenly appeared, the pipe was knocked from his mouth, and the whizz of a bullet sounded in his ears!
"The White Squaw"
Mayne Reid
So whizz went another telegram-this time from Jack-there was no time for letters these days-stopping all work on the nearly completed log cabin which the poor young superintendent had ordered, and which was all he could afford, before the sale of the ore lands.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith