61 Verbs to Use for the Word trumpets

And Fame has blown her trumpet and flies from town to town,

Well, it's not for a modest man to be sounding his own trumpet.

" "Why rise ye not, Xarifa, nor lay your cushion down? Why gaze ye not, Xarifa, with all the gazing town? Hear, hear the trumpet how it swells, and how the people cry!

Dropping her work-basket, she ran to the edge of the rock, and making a trumpet of her hands, called out: "Ahoy there!

In one of her poems she speaks of his "Valiant cry, a witness strong and clear, A trumpet with no dull uncertain sound.

" Roswell Gardiner waited a few minutes for the two schooners to close, and was in the very act of applying the trumpet to his mouth, when the usual salutation was sent across the water from the stranger.

The executive officer took his speaking-trumpet and stationed himself on the quarter-deck.

[fixing his ear-trumpet].

I seized the speaking-trumpet, and with all my power, hailed the steamer; and in return there came to me a single sound, the sound of the vowel

One of them stopped, and putting his trumpet down close to Martin's ear, puffed out his little, round cheeks, and blew a blast that made him jump.

"Can she use a speaking-trumpet?

Close after the boy on the ram marched four other little boys on foot, holding up long silver trumpets in readiness to blow.

Pomaré and eight hundred men landed from Moorea, and with the missionaries began a song service on the beach, and "Come, let us join our friends above," and "Blow ye the trumpets, blow!"

While yet a child her little right hand would control the bit of the charger, and she wielded the sword and spear, and hardened her limbs with wrestling, and made them supple for the race; and then as she grew up, she tracked the footsteps of the bear and lion, and followed the trumpet to the wars; and in those and in the depths of the forest she seemed a wild creature to mankind, and a man to the wildest creature.

Before dark, Captain Spinnet was once more within hailing distance of his own vessel, and raising a trumpet to his mouth, he shouted: "Schooner ahoy!

One man walked in front, who carried the trumpet.

During the conversation that now took place, the vessels gradually drew nearer to each other, until both parties laid aside their trumpets, and carried on the discourse with the unaided voice.

Lilies and the flower-de-luce sprang up in the place of reeds; smilax and poison-oak gave way to the purple-plumed iron-weed and pink spiderwort; the bindweeds ran everywhere blooming as they ran, and on one of the dead cypresses a giant creeper hung its green burden of foliage and lifted its scarlet trumpets.

On the twenty-fourth, the captains within Limerick sent out a trumpet, desiring a parley," and as a result of this parley, a treaty was ultimately signed between the two parties, Limerick was evacuated, and the war came to an end.

"Then I must bid my trumpets blow," said Charles.

" Having ordered the trumpets to sound, he rushed on the enemy, mounted on Rakush, and committed dreadful havoc among them.

Brutus, suspecting that his troops were plundering, commanded the trumpets to sound to their colours.

Fog: a man in a deck chair is playing a trumpet, his feet on the stern railing of a ferry.

The orator, ignorant of the laws of sound and inflection, resembles the debutant who places the trumpet to his lips for the first time.

Though no sculptured marble may tell the traveller where he may shortly liethough he never trod the thorny road of ambition or powerthough the trumpet of fame never blew the echo of his name through a gaping worldstill those eyes, which will soon be closed in death, may hereafter awake, to behold, undaunted, a world in flames, and these heavens fleeing away.

61 Verbs to Use for the Word  trumpets