They stood on end again once or twice in the afternoon, when we'd some more repairin' under fire to do; an' then to wind up the day they turned a maxim on just as we was comin' away from the post, an' we had to flop on our faces with the bullets zizz-izz-ipping just over us.
"Between the Lines"
Boyd Cable
Then the doors would be slammed shut, all the clerks flew to arms, up ran the consular flag, and zizz!
"Tartarin of Tarascon"
Alphonse Daudet
Deeply read up, Tartarin would graciously furnish the particulars desired, and, in the end, the good fellow was not quite sure himself about not having gone to Shanghai, so that, after relating for the hundredth time how the Tartars came down on the trading post, it would most naturally happen him to add: Then I made my men take up arms and hoist the consular flag, and zizz!
"Tartarin of Tarascon"
Alphonse Daudet