Word: whine
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...some the sound of popping corks is music of the sweetest; others fancy the tones of their own voice as reverberated by the tiled walls of a bathroom; to a man who truly loves his work even the angry, mosquito-like whine of an alarm-clock in the raw dusk of a winter morning may be welcome. But partisans of these noises generally realize that friends might be seriously offended if forced to share their taste, particularly if the friends desired at the moment only to sleep. Using such instances as parallels, certain tenants of apartment houses on Park Avenue...
Came the moment of firing. General Mueller raised his field-glass to observe the effect of bullets which were to whine harmlessly over many a German head. An instant later he dropped the glass, clutched at his side and fell dead. Lieutenant Colonel von Hoeruf, a staff officer, was wounded in the leg at the same moment. Aghast, Defense Minister Gessler and the military observers, realizing that the barrage had somehow fallen short, signaled frantically to the gunners to cease fire...
...about 11, something woke in the obscure night over their heads; at first no more than a drowsy, indistinguishable murmur, then a louder whine, like the nasal complaining of some fabulous insect; presently its eye became visible?a small inflamed pimple, swathed in huge bandages of mist. The more alert of the two campers nudged his companion...
...destruction of huge beasts that are prowling the mountains of South Platte Ca४n. One huge creature has driven away all the other game from the forests, and is killing sheep, deer and pigs near the homes. Lives of children attending sheep are unsafe. Even the dogs whine and hide when they get his spoor. The sport of tracking and killing such game is worthy of any of the men of the Capital. . . . We would like to see you and your friends enjoy this truly royal sport. . . . The cold wave we are having makes this a splendid time to catch...
...beaten bully is again howling for mercy. The latest whine of the German peace delegation declares the treaty framed by the Versailles Conference to be "more than the German people can bear." Count von Brockdorff-Rautzau asserts: "the more deeply we penetrate into the spirit of this treaty, the more convinced we become of the impossibility of carrying it out." This statement makes us wonder in what spirit of liberality a victorious German government would have imposed peace terms. At the end of the Franco-Prussian War, France pleaded in vain. Two of her fairest provinces were torn from...