"Whiz" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Gee whiz!" remarked one raw-boned youth, in what was meant to be a confidential whisper, but which rose to a pitch that carried it around the room. "Say, he doesn't look much like our old ...
— Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point • H. Irving Hancock
... led away, and beyond, in the barracks, was the whiz of jagged leather that lacerated, ...
— Mary Magdalen • Edgar Saltus
... soaking; and he thinks the brick building will stand if the reservoir don't give way; but did you hear that the river is above the danger line by two feet; higher than ever before known, and rising like a race-horse all the time? Gee whiz! what's the answer to this question; where's this thing going to end?" and Steve looked at his three chums as he put this question; but they only shook their heads in reply, and stared dolefully out ...
— Afloat on the Flood • Lawrence J. Leslie
... twelve. There is a railway station close by the ruins; and a new hotel stands within the precincts of the abbey grounds; and continually there is the shriek, the whiz, the rumble, the bell-ringing, denoting the arrival of the trains; and passengers alight, and step at once (as their choice may be) into the refreshment-room, to get a glass of ale or a cigar,—or upon the gravelled paths of the lawn, leading to the old broken walls and arches of ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... comedians made that night, but I liked their dry, cool way of making them. They did not "hand a lemon" or "skiddoo" in those days; American slang changes as quickly as thieves' slang, and only "Gee!" and "Gee-whiz!" seem to be permanent. ...
— The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections • Ellen Terry
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