Word: swish
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...skirts of the Imperial Victoria will swish and the unctuous tones of Disraeli will whisper in the council chambers as Britain girds its loins to once again resume the "white man's burden." Gouty lords and Cockney navvies, with tongue in ruddy British cheek and sturdy British finger crossed, will cheer King and Empire as the British Army arrives in Addis Ababa to save the black man from himself and to collect the taxes. England will self-sacrificingly exploit the natural resources of the country and grant the natives splendid positions paying as high...
...fishing. Among the 186,000 acres in various parts of the British Isles that he owns is that part of the river, Lismore Castle high above it, and the fishing rights. It is reported that His Grace was enjoying himself mightily, listening to the whine of the reel, the swish of line and leader, when from the willows on the bank rose a strange figure wearing a mask...
...Swish! The body fell, jerked the rope taut. Then it spun a little, the toes of De Boe's shiny shoes poised a few inches above a puddle of water in the pit beneath the gallows...
...Lits-Cook's opposite the Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...
...advanced in impeccable full dress exuding Eau de Cologne. An artist, as are all great executioners, Gröber keeps his blade on ice until the last second, figures that blood has a tendency to congeal on an iced blade and hence will not spout on his boiled shirt. Swish-clump! Swish-clump!-two heads rolled in the sand. One of them, declared Nazis with more exuberance than exactitude, was "the head of the first Jew ever decapitated in German history." Otherwise insignificant, Jew Solly Epstein and equally inconsequent Gentile Hans Zeigler were sentenced to death for the Nazi crime...