2426 examples of drum in sentences

Every one pushed before the other; there was an endless rising and falling as in the changes of a feverish dream, each man as he got strength to struggle forwards himself, thrusting back his neighbors, and those who were nearest to the door beating upon it without cease, like the beating of a drum without cadence or measure, sometimes a dozen passionate hands together, making a horrible din and riot.

"Bid them come forth and hear me, Or at their chamber door I'll the drum

Mrs. W. was in high dudgeon; her heels clattered on the red-tiled floor, and she whisked about the house like a parched pea upon a drum-head.

Now, truly, his hum-drum puts me in mind of the whirring tone of the hurdy-gurdy, while his ad libitum bumping against the booming window-panes sounds, to my fancy, like the unskilful accompaniment of a double drum, beaten by some unmusical urchin.

Now, truly, his hum-drum puts me in mind of the whirring tone of the hurdy-gurdy, while his ad libitum bumping against the booming window-panes sounds, to my fancy, like the unskilful accompaniment of a double drum, beaten by some unmusical urchin.

Drum and Fife.

He switched him once because he would not play with his toy gun and drum.

" There were there thirty-five municipal guards, commanded by a lieutenant, and with a drum at their head.

The farmer, who had read of martial music, heard with his own ears the roll of the drum and the shrieking, encouraging call of the fife.

The range of desolate hills in the background is flickering with gun-flashes and grumbling with drum-firethe Bosch evensong.

He is never what we call hum-drum; never unwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave off.'

I'll buy 'em and teach some gob to drum.

Above this kiosk, and over the right and left gates, was a kurkeh, or great drum; and a bell hung over the middle gate, attended by two persons, to give notice of the appearance of the emperor on his throne.

Before the throne, near a window of the hall, there was a great kurkeh or drum, on a raised stage, attended by two men, and near it a great band of musicians.

Therefore the peaceful citizen soldiers regarded not the call of the trumpet and the drum.

A jangle of senseless "honks"yet in it the irresistible urge of bugle and drum!

The drum of the Scotch thrashing-machine would most certainly be improved by a transfusion from the principles of the English machine; and the latter might be equally improved by the adoption of the manufacturing-like arrangements and general economy of the Scotch system of thrashing.

BUCK, PEARL S. The flower drum and other Chinese songs.

The flower drum and other Chinese songs, by Chin-hsin Yao Chen & Shih-hsiang Chen.

The flower drum and other Chinese songs.

The flower drum and other Chinese songs.

The warning drum: the British home front faces Napoleon.

The warning drum: the British home front faces Napoleon.

Robert Buggert (A); 26Jan70; R477394. BUGGERT, ROBERT W. Buggert method for snare drum.

He felt his way into the hall and found the matches, after sending his hat down upon the floor with a noise like a drum.

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