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  • The humming bowspring sang in harmony with the zooning arrow.

    Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

  • Wits threw the first bobbin, and he threw it so hard that it made a zooning sound in the air.

    Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • A low, soft trill, like a mocking bird's song at night, breaks forth from we know not where, and its quivering melody fills the vast edifice; but ere we have discovered its source or meaning it is joined by another sound -- a high zooning tone -- like a bee far up in the air.

    Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873

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