Which preposition to use with drum

of Occurrences 105%

The only sound is the drum of the rain on the peat or its plash on a boulder, and the low surge of the swelling streams.

on Occurrences 74%

"Hustle and get that oil drum on the wharf, you drunken hog!"

in Occurrences 46%

The roar and drumming in the forest made a soft, blurring undertone of sound.

with Occurrences 32%

I did not say the liquor was not paid for," said the young Colonel, drumming with his foot.

under Occurrences 17%

Drums under the windows.

at Occurrences 14%

It was just over; the crowded room was stifling with the smoke of tobacco and tallow-candles; there was an American flag hanging over the pulpit, a man pounding on a drum at the door, and a swarm of loafers on the steps, cheering for the Union, for Jeff Davis, etc.

to Occurrences 12%

Watching it, and quickened by the fife and drum to an erect sitting posture, Mrs. Ross slid forward on her bench, lips opening.

for Occurrences 10%

It was typically African; the negroes used drums for signaling, although white men had not found out their code.

out Occurrences 9%

"You ought to be drummed out of Brill!"

into Occurrences 6%

To Bull Hunter the mysteries were revealed for nothing, freely, and drilled and drummed into him through the weeks of his convalescence; and still the lessons continued now that he was hale and hearty once moreas the clean-swept platters from which he ate three times a day gave evidence.

from Occurrences 6%

An ex-drummer of the Garde Mobile had taken a drum from a lower room at the side of the guard-room, and had beaten the call to arms in the surrounding streets.

through Occurrences 4%

They carried a line from its drum through a snatch block ashore and jerked half a dozen logs crosswise before the scow in a matter of minutes.

without Occurrences 3%

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.

against Occurrences 3%

Drums against Frontenac.

by Occurrences 3%

'THE JUKE'S COUNTRY' A rattling, thumping, booming noise, like the beating of their war drums by savages, comes over the hedge where the bees are busy at the bramble flowers.

like Occurrences 3%

"Every time that her look met his, he struck his kettle-drum like a maniac.

over Occurrences 3%

As the smoke arose from the burning grass, he held his drum over it, turning it from side to side, and round and round.

along Occurrences 2%

Drums along the Mohawk.

beyond Occurrences 1%

And around the drums beyond the candles he heard them singing: On the day of the going away of my Love, When the litters, carrying the women of the tribe, Traversed the valley of Dad, like a sea, mirage, They were like ships, great ships, the work of the children of Adoul, Or like the boats of Yamen's sons.... "Boom-boom!"

between Occurrences 1%

He made Everton point out the digging figure, and was calculating the distance from the nearest point of the trench, and the bullets that drummed between.

beneath Occurrences 1%

"The long-case clock on the stair had just struck two when the trembler-drum beneath my pillow suddenly broke into a prolonged roll.

outside Occurrences 1%

" Whereupon, thinking better to please the churchwoman, he related how, when imprisoned for popping a toad into the soup, he had escaped over the leads, and had beaten a drum outside the barn, during a discourse of the godly tinker, John Bunyan, tramping and rattling so that all thought the troopers were come, and rushed out, tumbling one over the other, while he yelled out his "Ho! ho! ho!" from the haystack where he had hidden.

across Occurrences 1%

Did not her people hear the beating of Death's war drums across the fields of Europe, growing louder and louder, so that on a cross-Channel boat I heard it booming in my ears, louder than the wind?

behind Occurrences 1%

The first Preparation for our Setting-out was, that the Captain's Half-Pike was placed near the Coach-man, and a Drum behind the Coach.

as Occurrences 1%

I do not think I ever beheld a human being whose aspect was of such unutterable pride as a man I lately saw playing the drum as one of a certain splendid military band.

Which preposition to use with  drum