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.

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

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

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

Drums under the windows.

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.

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

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

"You ought to be drummed out of Brill!"

Pass, a region which Kipling describes more at length in "The Man Who Was," "The Drums of the Fore and Aft," "The Lost Legion," "Love o' Women," "Wee Willie Winkie," and "With the Main Guard."

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

'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.

Drums against Frontenac.

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

Drums along the Mohawk.

The bells and drums inside the court Men stand without and hear; So should the feelings in my breast, To him distinct appear.

Suddenly she saw Androvsky as some strange and ghastly figure of legend; as the wandering Jew met by a traveller at cross roads, and distinguished for an instant by an oblique flash of lightning; as the shrouded Arab of the Eastern tale, who announces coming disaster to the wanderers in the desert by beating a death-roll on a drum amid the sands.

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.

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.

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

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.