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'zipp' of the nearer ones, all sounds so constant and normal that the look-out paid no heed to them, put them, as it were, out of the focus of his hearing, and strained to catch the fainter but far more significant sound of a footstep squelching in the mud, the 'snip' of a wire-cutter at work, the low 'tang' of a jarred wire.
Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910
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By the way, if you have nothing nice to say, dont say it… zipp it,k.
Robert Pattinson Set To Ruin More Films, This Time Involving Dead Singers 2009
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July 27, 2008 at 2:45 am eeeeek mee two, zipp stop skreamin at me all reddy!
Camouflage - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Nawt oanley duz kitteh haz her oawn grabbitty field, her awlsoe haz her oawn zipp cohde!
wen u has ur own grabity field - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Very soon he heard a great splashing in the water near him, and -- zipp -- he let the arrow go at the sound -- then all was still again.
Indian Why Stories 1915
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And if there wa'n't zipp and scream to it, then I'm shortsighted in the eyes.
Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907
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No more did he dance at the crack of carbines or the zipp-zipp of bullets.
Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907
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No more did he dance at the crack of carbines or the zipp-zipp of bullets.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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Very soon he heard a great splashing in the water near him, and -- zipp -- he let the arrow go at the sound -- then all was still again.
Indian Why Stories Frank Bird Linderman 1903
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The zipp, zipp, zipp of the tails of his snow-shoes was the only sound he heard except the first faint, hissing monotone of the aurora in the northern skies, which came to him like the shivering run of steel sledge runners on hard snow.
Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail James Oliver Curwood 1903
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