Every few minutes a whooshing sound could be heard as the air was purified.

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We begin our pleasant walk with the whooshing of the brush against our pants counting out a metronomic beat.

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It doesn't suffer the constant whooshing of the Contour, but as you can see in the video above it doesn't do much for capturing the spoken word.

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At Elias, a completed Chevron operation, the only sound to disturb the replanted clover meadow is a faint whooshing as gas passes to an underground pipe network.

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Now, in this warren of rooms, except for the muffled sound of the crowd above, the only sound was the whooshing of an underground stream, redirected here from Roman times for irrigation and cleaning.

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One wonders how Doug Von Allmen, who began life in poverty, working as a window washer and factory grunt, became a man intolerant of any "creaking" on his yacht, irritated by the slightest whooshing of the air-conditioning system and concerned with the placement of gold-plated toilet-paper dispensers.

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