So changed, indeed, became the old cat that he did not possess spirit enough to put up his tail and "phit" and "fiz" at Burgher Jans 'terrier, when that predatory animal made an occasional excursion into the parlour at meal times, to see what he could pick up, either on the sly or in that sneaking, fawning fashion which a well-trained dog would have despised. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Every now and then with the clear high "phit" of the Mauser bullet would come the hideous twisting whistle of the Martini -- really a horrible sound. ❋ Filson Young (1907)
One day, however, as I was about to part the branches to look in, I heard an anxious "phit," and glanced up to see the owner alight on the lowest limb of a peach-tree near by. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
She always alighted on the peach-tree branch, looked about on all sides, especially at me in my seat on the piazza, flirted her tail, uttered an anxious "phit," and then jumped off the limb and dived under the bushes near the ground. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
Ai gotz a Wii phit last wiik an my kittehs lyk too set awn teh bord too! ❋ Unknown (2008)
MissCegenation of Reciprocal Crap Exchange sent in a link to The Perfect Phit, a NYC spa dedicated to “pelvic health” phit = “pelvic health integrated techniques”. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Keap triing 2 phit dis skware pegg in2 de rund hol. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Before the last knot of the bundle was untied by the mite's busy fingers there crawled out a tiny tortoise-shell kitten, with its diminutive little tail erect like a young bottle-brush, which gave vent to a "phiz - phit," as if indignant at its long confinement, and then proceeded to rub itself against Jupp's leg, with a purring mew on recognising a friend. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
` Whiz! 'went the matchlock balls of the Arabs past our ears; ` whir-r-ir' sliced away their scimitars right and left in the air, with the regularity of so many flails at work on a barn-floor; but we did not mind them a bit, for the ` phit -- phit -- phit! 'of the bullets from our ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)
My old friend Time, however, worked his proverbial wonders and one day a telephone came -- phit! like that. ❋ Various (N/A)
Perhaps if the great hand is merciful it draws the glass to one side, thus, and still to one side, thus and thus and thus, until, phit! there is a little red patch and no fly; yes, perhaps. ❋ Hamilton Drummond (1896)
I told him, so he touched the diamond with an electric wire -- "phit!" and there was only something that looked like the ash of a shocking bad cigar. ❋ F. Anstey (1895)
As they did so there rang out the sharp, peremptory crack of a rifleshot from the escort, followed by another and another, but these isolated shots were drowned in the long, spattering roll of an irregular volley from the plain, and the air was full of the phit-phit-phit of the bullets. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
I had got quite accustomed now to the rushing sound of round shot in the air and the waspish phit phitting of rifle bullets past my head; and I was filled with a wild excitement that made my heart pant, as I stood on the poop between Mr Mackay and Tim Rooney. ❋ William Heysham Overend (1874)
As I drew near an old moss-covered apple-tree, I heard a low though energetic "phit! phit!" and a chipping sparrow emerged from the tree with much haste, quickly followed by a redstart, with the unmistakable air of proprietor. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
The sergeant was right enough; but the bullets were dangerous, and they came now pretty rapidly from all round, striking with a vicious _phit_! which was terribly straining to the nerves. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
I suppose it's good for us, but it's very bad for these 'ere Malay chaps, and it does make me feel a bit squirmy when one of them gives me a chance, and then it's _oracle, phit_, and down he goes, and me loading again. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
Further conversation was ended by the report of a musket, which served as the signal for several more, all fired from beyond the parade-ground, and doing no harm, though the _whiz_ and _phit_ of the bullets passed close by, and could be heard striking against the nearest buildings. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
On the strength of having related his future hunts, he may have believed he had performed them as sincerely as he fancied he had hoisted the consular flag and fired on the Tartars, zizz, phit, bang! at Shanghai. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
Then the doors would be slammed shut, all the clerks flew to arms, up ran the consular flag, and zizz! phit! bang! out of the windows upon the Tartars. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
