27 examples of trumpet-call in sentences

" For those no death-bed's lingering shade; At Honor's trumpet-call, With knitted brow and lifted blade In Glory's arms they fall.

The last words rang out like a trumpet-call.

But the very suasiveness of harmonious writing needs to be varied lest it become a drowsy monotony; and the sharp short sentences which are intolerable when abundant, when used sparingly act like a trumpet-call to the drooping attention.

" The beating of drums and the sharp trumpet-calls mixed in this monstrous din, and were every now and then lost in the tremendous noise of the firing.

Now was the time for the trumpet-call, which behoved to be sounded by the cycloborean lungs of the broad-chested Panmure.

Every rebel is a Quietist at heart, seeking peace and ensuing it, willing to let the stream of time glide past without his stir, dreading the onset of indignation's claws, stopping his ears to the trumpet-call of action, and always tempted to leave vengeance to Him who has promised to repay.

"Here, where are you going?" Jadwin's voice rang like a trumpet-call: "Into the Pit!

But then verse after verse rang like a trumpet-call.

A single stanza celebrating patriarchal concubinage, winding off with a chorus in honor of patriarchal drunkenness, would be a trumpet-call, summoning from brothels, bush and brake, highway and hedge, and sheltering fence, a brotherhood of kindred affinities, each claiming Abraham or Noah as his patron saint, and shouting, "My name is legion."

A single stanza celebrating patriarchal concubinage, winding off with a chorus in honor of patriarchal drunkenness, would be a trumpet-call, summoning from brothels, bush and brake, highway and hedge, and sheltering fence, a brotherhood of kindred affinities, each claiming Abraham or Noah as his patron saint, and shouting, "My name is legion."

General Booth has uttered a trumpet-call, the echoes of which will be reverberated through the entire world.

Far away, the trumpet-call of a wild tusker trembled through the moist, hot night; and great bell-shaped flowers made the air pungent and heavy with perfume.

When we inquire what was the subject of Michael Angelo's famous picture, we find that he had aimed at representing nothing of more moment than a group of soldiers suddenly surprised by a trumpet-call to battle, while bathing in the Arnoa crowd of naked men in every posture indicating haste, anxiety, and struggle.

She is a product of her time, as Lessing, Goethe, Wordsworth and Byron were of theirs; a voice to utter its purpose and meaning, as well as a trumpet-call to lead it on.

One day a well-known voice, terrific in its muscular energy and emotional fervour, rose like a trumpet-call in a quiet courtyard off the Rue St. Honoré.

Mark its bars How like a mighty trumpet-call they stir The blood.

A loud concert of trumpet-calls and cries suddenly commenced.

In them Kleist gave undying expression to his ardent patriotism; it was his deepest grief that these martial dramas were not permitted to sound their trumpet-call to a humbled nation yearning to be free.

Hear ye not how, from all high points of Time, From peak to peak adown the mighty chain That links the ages,echoing sublime A Voice Almighty,leaps one grand refrain, Wakening the generations with a shout, And trumpet-call of thunder,Come ye out!

Such a prohibition (she well knew) would be a trumpet-call to my native spirit of disobedience.

The first cry of the animal had almost frozen her blood, but the eager, proud, manly shout of Barton affected her like a trumpet-call.

Orders, sir?" "My orders are, every man back to his post!" cried the Master, his voice a trumpet-call of resolution.

he called, his voice blaring a trumpet-call to action.

My postilion, heedless all, Cracked his whip most gaily, And his merry trumpet-call Rang o'er hill and valley.

Trumpet-calls at the different barracks answer to each other.

27 examples of  trumpet-call  in sentences