There was a faint sizzle as the chaos touched the boy's forehead.

Henry felt the wards as he crossed them, a faint sizzle along the surface of his skin that jerked every hair on his body erect.

Out in the damp cabbage fields there was a shimmer in the air and a faint sizzle, like frying grasshoppers.

There was only the faintest sizzle of the iron in the brazier.

In my ear came the faint sizzle of warning.

A nanosecond of warning alerted him to possible danger: a faint, warm sizzle brushed his back.

There was always a faint sizzle from it when the power went on, but after that it was silent.

And in the darkness, among, the spilled sand, a faint sizzle and a tiny spark of light... Mustrum Ridcully adjusted the towel around his waist.

He listened, but other than the hitching of his breath there was no other sound, not even the faint sizzle of candles guttering- a sound like frying meat- and that was because the candles had burned out.

And for an instant, Sumantra thought he glimpsed a faint sizzle of electric blue, like two very tiny bolts of blue lightning, within the orb of the seer's pupils.