See whiss on Wiktionary
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"form": "whissing",
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"ref": "1774, Paulin Huggett Pearce, The Warrior's Swimming Book, and Ladies' Guide, page 13:",
"text": "Their fatal bullets whissed, the green sward dyed,\n The horses reared and plunged in maddening pain, br> And stumbling, fell upon the crimson plain.",
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},
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"ref": "1889, The Tablet, volume 74, page 996:",
"text": "[…] more shots whissed past, going over the heads of himself and his companions […]",
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