2107 examples of trumpets in sentences

Or if I go on broader range and see in my fancy a broken castle on a hill, I'll clear its moat and sound trumpets on its walls.

Swift and silent his war-worn veterans fell to their appointed ranks; his trumpets blew and they began to fall back on Belsaye town.

Now presently within the city Sir Benedict's trumpets Hew, and looking from the battlement Beltane beheld Sir Hacon mustering their stout company, knights and men-at-arms, what time Roger and Walkyn and Ulf ordered what remained of their pikemen and archers.

But of a sudden Duke Beltane wheeled his horse, his sword flashed on high, whereat trumpets brayed and on the instant Sir Jocelyn wheeled off to the left, he and all his company, and gathering speed began to skirt Duke Ivo's advanced pikemen and archers, and so rode down upon those men of Pentavalon who were drawn up against Belsaye.

And now the trumpets blared, rallying their various companies, but Beltane abode very full of sorrowful thoughts.

We ought to remember the precious lives given to the pestilence of Varna and to the inhospitable shores of the Black Sea; these men, in my opinion, were animated by as heroic a spirit as those who have yielded up their lives amid the flash of artillery and the triumphant sound of trumpets.

Of trumpets, shoutings, and belaboured drums, And sudden cannon.

he cried aloud, with a tongue of trumpets; 'Vive la France!

A bas les Boches!'" The captain, as he declaimed "with a tongue of trumpets," leaped to his feet and struck an attitude that was really quite a good imitation of 'Enery's own mock-tragedian one.

See the colors flying, and the drums, and trumpets, and cannon, I can almost hear them!

Had it been consistent with the dignity of a Lord Mayor to swear, I should, I believe, at that moment, have anathematized the offending tailor;as it was, what was to be done?I heard trumpets in earnest,

They sang it with great feeling of happiness Oh where shall we go when de great day comes An' de blowing of de trumpets and de bangins of de drums When General Sherman comes.

As soon as it was sufficiently light the trumpets sounded, and with a burst they dashed across the country.

Drums and trumpets toll the knell, And culverins the passing bell.

Where a battle is supposed to be given behind the scenes, with drums, trumpets, and military shouts and excursions; after which, the Britons, expressing their joy for the victory, sing this song of triumph.

I. Come, if you dare, our trumpets sound; Come, if you dare, the foes rebound: We come, we come, we come, we come, Says the double, double, double beat of the thundering drum.

The fainting Saxons quit their ground, Their trumpets languish in the sound: They fly, they fly, they fly, they fly; Victoria, Victoria, the bold Britons cry.

3 The praise of Bacchus then, the sweet musician sung; Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets; beat the drums; Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes.

Down and down he came, while the trumpets cried, and the waves of colour followed him, and then vanished for a time among the crowd beneath, as he reached the level ground.

Last week the newspapers announced with a flourish of rhetorical trumpets that he had just celebrated his fiftieth birthday.

" The two vessels were now near enough for a high-pitched conversation without the assistance of trumpets, and Mary Phillips assisted Bertha to the side of the steamer, where I could distinctly see her.

Then the steamer moved farther and farther away, and speaking-trumpets were of no avail.

Beyond this lovely fountain the green level of the tapis vert fell away to the great Bassin d'Appollon, where the sun-god disported himself among his Tritons, the foamy tops of the great jets of water blown from their shell-trumpets rising high in the air and scattered into spray by the night wind.

Go upon a battle-field when drums beat and trumpets sound.

These natives have drums and sea-shell trumpets, which they use to excite their courage when going into battle.

2107 examples of  trumpets  in sentences