155 examples of cymbals in sentences

Rama, the high-priest of this woodland ritea dark, thin man with a look of anxiety upon his faceenters the hut with his assistant, Govind, while several fresh looking Bhandari boys take up their position near the gong, cymbals, and drum, prepared when the hour comes to hammer them with might and main.

And on the back veranda behind them, where she had been crouching with her ear to the paling, Rosie came out of hiding and burst out like a whole hallelujah chorus, and with the empty scrub pail in one hand, and the brush in the other, beat the cymbals as she sang: "O that will be glory for me, Glory for you and glory for me, When by His grace I shall look on His face, That will be glory for me!" CHAPTER XXIV HOME

" A confused thunder of gongs, the clash of cymbals smothered in the distance, maintained a throbbing uproar, pierced now and then by savage yells, prolonged and melancholy.

Vesper cymbals clashed faintly in a temple, and from its open door the first plummet of lamplight began to fathom the dark margin.

Drawing nearer to a faint clash of cymbals in some joss-house, they halted before a blind wall.

He looked down from the fortress won, on the tents and towers below, The moon-lit sea, the torch-lit streetsand a gloom came o'er his brow: The voice of thousands floated up, with the horn and cymbals' tone; But his heart, 'midst that proud music, felt more utterly alone.

Then Judith sang this song unto God saying: Begin ye in timbrels, sing ye to the Lord in cymbals, mannerly sing to him a new psalm.

In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue: The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis haste.

she whispered, "Listen!" Now as they sat there, very silent,faint and far-away upon the still night air, they heard a sound; a silvery, rhythmic sound, it was,like the musical clash of fairy cymbals which drew rapidly nearer, and nearer; and Bellew felt that Miss Priscilla's hand was trembling upon his arm as she leaned forward, listening with a smile upon her parted lips, and a light in her eyes that was ineffably tender.

the groom was an avaricious, disobedient slave, and he at once sold me to a troupe of those infamous beggarly priests of Cybele, who cart the Syrian goddess about the public squares to the sound of cymbals and rattles.

[devices which make a resonating sound] bell, doorbell, buzzer; gong, cymbals (musical instruments)

"Though I speak with the tongues of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.

Not unfrequently dancing boys or girls are in attendance, and the horrid din of tom-toms, cymbals, a squeaking fiddle, or a twanging sitar, rattling castanets, and ear-piercing songs from the dusky prima donna, makes night hideous, until the grey dawn peeps over the dark forest line.

But, lo! help cometh from afar: a strong man bringeth lettuce wherewith to stay her, plucketh berries to comfort her withal, and clasheth cymbals that she may dance for joy.

And ye begone, ye tinkling cymbals vain, That call the youths to drivelings insane.

Then came two musicians, one of whom beat a small drum at intervals, and the other played the cymbals.

Round about him Bacchus fair Bacchantês, Bearing cymbals, flutes, and thyrses, Wild from Naxian groves, or Zantê's Vineyards, sing delirious verses.

At nine o'clock Hermia mounted the platform (a piano box turned on its side) and began to thump the drum and cymbals.

Upon the ground in the corner where it had been thrown lay a drum and cymbals fastened to a framework of wire and straps.

Triangles and cymbals, folk tunes and classic pieces arranged for children's rhythm band with piano accompaniment.

Both entered the town in the same palanquin to the sound of native cymbals and the military music of the.

Pan and Ceres followed them with four Reapers, who danced a Morrice to the Sound of Oaten Pipes and Cymbals.

They are called the Winged Servants of the Muses, because when they swarm they are quickly brought together by the music of cymbals and the clapping of hands: and as men assign Helicon and Olympus to be the haunts of the Muses, so nature has attributed the flowery and uncultivated mountains to the bees.

When I spoke these last two words an' saw her face draw up wi' the bitterness o' their taste, I held out my wrists and clapped the handcuffs together like cymbals and laughed wi' a glad heart.

The banquet waits, the cymbals clang aloud.

155 examples of  cymbals  in sentences