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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Whistle
 
Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give
To sounds confus’d.
        Shakespeare.—King Henry V., Chorus to Act III.		  1
Their whistling noise made the birds aghast.
        Shelley.—The Sensitive Plant.		  2
He trudg’d along, unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
        Dryden.—Cymon and Iphigenia.		  3
 
 
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