to that dull sound, like blows upon some soft, hollow, half sonorous substance, slow and measured at first, but increasing in rapidity, until it rolls like the beat of a muffled drum, or the low growl of the far-off thunder.

For Silvia, believe it, when Youth is done, There's nought but hum drum, hum drum, hum drum; There's nought but hum drum, hum drum, hum drum.

She took the cash and let the credit go, nor heeded rumblings of the distant drum!"

The First Little Bear said, "I broke my little red drum.

She heard the throbbing of native drums in the village near by.

The fluid pulp is carried by means of a helix, i, to a revolving perforated drum at e. From this, the milky starch flows into the jacket, N, while the pulp (ligneous fibers) makes its exit from the apparatus through the aperture, n, and falls into the reservoir, o.

The army follows with their nodding plumes, And burnished armor, trumpets, rolling drums, And glistening spears enwreathed with fragrant flowers, While scarfs are waving from the crowded towers, And shouts of joy their welcome loud proclaim, And from each lip resounds their monarch's name.

The flaps of the mad canvas were like successive thumps of a giant's fist upon a mighty drum.

John Colvin's costly drums, by Arnold Fountain, pseud. of Fulton Oursler.

The members of his family, down to an unclothed, precocious imp of ten, accompany him, carrying similar baskets, or capacious wallets, or long, cylindrical drums, on which they play with their fingers.

As they came nearer, a strange, rhythmic throbbing crept to his ears; nearer still, he resolved it into the slow, regular beatings of a flat-toned drum.

LIDE, THOMAS E. Aztec drums.

She closed her eyeswaitedheard the distant drumming of hoofs on the turf of the hillside.

The instrumentalists, men or women, made sharp rattles whizz, noisy drums sound or shudder under small sticks terminated by a caoutchouc ball, "marimehas," kinds of dulcimers formed of two rows of gourds of various dimensionsthe whole very deafening for any one who does not possess a pair of African ears.

For Silvia, believe it, when Youth is done, There's nought but hum drum, hum drum, hum drum; There's nought but hum drum, hum drum, hum drum.

CARMER, CARL. Listen for a lonesome drum.

[Footnote 27: Literally, "the broken drum," from tlapana, to break, as they say tlapanhuimetzli, half moon.

Sound drums within, and cry, Stab, stab! Hearken, thou shalt hear a noise Shall fill the air with a shrilling sound, And thunder music to the gods above: Mars shall himself breathe down A peerless crown upon brave Envy's head, And raise his chival with a lasting fame.

And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning-star; While throng'd the citizens, with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips,"The foe!

"'My Georgia Crackerjack'," said the laconic drum.

When the loud brazen drums were heard afar, And, echoing round, proclaimed the pending war, Whilst parting tears my mother's eyes o'erflowed, This mystic gift her bursting heart bestowed: 'Take this,' she said, 'thy father's token wear, And promised glory will reward thy care.'

Prince Henry The grim musician Leads all men through the mazes of that dance, To different sounds in different measures moving; Sometimes he plays a lute, sometimes a drum, To tempt or terrify.

The people of Goascoran stared at us as we rode through their streets, but none came near us until after we had vigorously pounded the magical drum, when the alguazils made their appearance, followed by all the urchins of the place, and by a crowd of lean and hungry curs,the latter evidently in watery-mouthed anticipation of obtaining from the strangers, what they seldom got at home, a stray crust or a marrow-bone.

In some cases the male drums or pulls at the strings of the web in a special code to announce that he is not a prey or an enemy, but a sexual object.

At the transmitting station, A, is placed a transmitting battery, E, having its positive pole connected by a conductor, 2, with the metallic transmitting drum, T.