With cymbals and rattle of castanets, And shriek of slug-horns, the North Wind Bows the oak and the moaning fir, On russet hills and by roadsides stiff with rime.
The cymbals of the bards spoke back to the Roman clarions.
Then, listening intently, my father said to Mikael and myself: "Sons, I hear the cymbals of the bards and the clarions of the Trimarkisia.
The crash of cymbals and the boom of the bass drum and the big horns almost drowned out the rumbling of the thunder.
At half-past three o'clock the next morning the boat's passengers were awakened by the blare of brass, the crash of cymbals and the boom of the big bass drum.
If a Datto dies, they intone a dolorous chant; the family bursts into lamentations, which are finally drowned in the din of the clashing of cymbals and beating of gongs, whilst sometimes a gun is fired.
It was escorted by a majestic accompaniment, marching to the sounds of clarions and cymbals and other musical instruments.
Your song," said I, "would go well with the clash of cymbals or the peal of the organ.
And now with pipes and cymbals came the bridegroom attended by all his friends, to fetch the bride home.
Now rose a burst of song, the so-called Fescennian lays, some old and some new, accompanied by the flutes of musicians and the clash of castanets and cymbals of dancing girls.
Soon the cymbals were but a distant tinkling, and at last they died gradually away.
For an hour with bated breath they stole through the fleet, still hearing the cymbals clashing all round them, for in this way the Spaniards held themselves together.
I call to mind on the Biscay Coast how they would clash their cymbals after the fashion of the heathen Moor with whom they fight; but what would you have me do, fair sir?
Suddenly, a sound as of kettledrums and cymbals and squeaking violins rose above the neighing and braying of the fair.
There was something in their dogged mouths and the resolute manner in which they thumped the big drums and clashed the great brass cymbals that told of the threshing of grain and the treading of the winepress.
Pipes and cymbalsare still, and the lions sink their manes in greeting.
Would I blow up the flute, funereal is the note; do I shake the cymbals, the cymbals echo a sound of mourning.
Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, sounded with cymbalsof brass.
Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbalsof joy: let every spirit praise the Lord.
The cymbals are of a great antiquity, being depicted on ancient Assyrian monuments, and "in the British Museum may be seen a pair of bronze cymbals which once did duty for the sacred rites of Egyptian deities.
A dancing woman with jewels in her ears, and half naked to the waist, sounding the brazen cymbals above her head, drew a score of youths after her in Barabbas' train.
A harmless devil comes after, horned and hoofed, hired to frighten the women, and crowds of captive maidens dance to cymbals and flutes.
To the sound of drums and cymbals the Moors march in.
Strings stir the feet; the horns blow the first motive of the savage tune; the upper wood fall in with a dashing jingle,--like a stroke of cymbals across the hostile harmonies.
Clarinet with chord of horns) (Violas)] cymbals and long blown tone of horns.
Illustration] As we stood there listening to the music, I observed that the energetic gentleman who played upon the drum and cymbals was looking at me with what seemed to be a scornful smile.
And then came the others, on foot: tambourines and wood blocks and parade cymbals and castanets.
There was a soft ring in Lois's voice; it might be an echo of the trumpets and cymbals of which she had been speaking.
The four others proceeded with me; and when I mounted, the ensigns and banners were set up over my head, the drums and the cymbals were beaten, and the troops disposed themselves in two divisions, right and left.
The maiden followed, and they kept going further and further, until they arrived at the dwelling of the Chan, from which proceeded the sound of cymbals and kettledrums.
