Snipe / zip:
The snipe zip away over the frozen bogs
into a sky of Neapolitan enamel.
-- V.S. Pritchett, The Living Novel (1946)
Departing speedboat:
They would skim and turn far off,
tantalizing small shapes
on the shiny silky sea.
-- Pamela Frankau, “The Duchess and the Smugs”
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