When the moon comes over the mountain wall new-washed from the sea, and the shadows lie like lace on the stamped floors of the patios, from recess to recess of the vine tangle runs the thrum of guitars and the voice of singing.

He just thrums on one stringto declare yourself bankrupt.

The hair of the women is also usually but not invariably twisted up into thrums like those of a mop, a style of dressing it here peculiar to the female sex.

Where can her eyes be?" "That's just like you, aunt," muttered Maria Dmitrievna, in a tone of vexation, and thrumming with her fingers on the arm of her chair.

My angel-wife was surprised,stood thrumming at the piano,wondered she could not catch this very odd bit of discordant accord at all,but checked herself in her effort, as soon as I observed that her long notes and short notes, in their tum-tee, tee,tee-tee, tee-tum tum, meant, "He's her brother."

"Grizel," he cried, "there's somebody come to Thrums without a ticket!"

My buckskins were dirty from travel, and the thrums in rags; and I knew that she noted all these matters.

In a few minutes Dick's cheery banjo thrummed into silence and he turned round.