Me an' Jakin are the only acting-drummers that'll be took along.
Half the men had seen the drummers die, and they made no sign.
The drummers gnashed their teeth at Jakin and Lew marching with the Band, the married women wept upon the platform, and the Regiment cheered its noble self black in the face.
They were purely a regimental, and not an Army, institution, and had no separate rank as thedrummers had.
But for the work of the pipers and drummers it would have been impossible to evacuate the wounded that night.
The drummers were the Adjutant, Major Lockie, the Quartermaster Lieut.
As the discomfited drummers climbed into their trap, the girl, in the ardor of her suddenly adopted hero-worship, could not refrain from turning around again to triumph over them.
Her cheeks and eyes were flaming, and the drummers were not slow to respond to the challenge which she flashed at them from under her drooped lids.
The drummers whipped their horse to a gallop, and disappeared.
The drummers were allowed to cross the post of Number Three without question.
Three rather carelessly treated Fords were parked near its main entrance and two drummers were rocking on the unwashed stoop with soft damp cigars tucked into the corners of their mouths.
The drummers beat the time, turning their heads from side to side in rhythm.
Hereupon the drummers stretched their necks till they strangled their song for a look at the stranger passing by.
At once the drummers beat softly and slowly their drum while the chosen singers hummed together to find the common pitch.
It is customary during the intermissions between the dances for the drummers to rub a handful of snow over the skins to prevent them from cracking under the heavy blows.
Suddenly thedrummers cease and rap sharply on the in['g]lak with their drumsticks.
Immediately the drummers start tapping lightly on their drums, and at a signal from their leader the song of invitation begins.
Hugh made a short speech, pointing at Jack as he did so, and when he ended, the drummers struck their drums with a great noise and many of the people shouted.
The fifers and war drummersmarched two by two at the head of the said Swiss Guards, beating upon their drums and blowing their fifes in funeral notes.
Order the drummers and trumpeters to remain quiet, and all your men to observe scrupulous silence.
Before the drummers marched Pastor Feron, who again intoned a psalm that was speedily taken up in chorus by the Protestants in the midst of a veritable hailstorm of balls and bullets: "God ever was both my life and my light!
Many cantons have excellent bands of music; others, as Zurich, have only drummers and their indispensable drum-major, and sing martial songs while marching.
The Nagarchees, or kettle-drummers of each body, were beating the assembly vigorously, and single men were rapidly arriving from other quarters and joining their divisions.
Somebody in the crowd would notice the apparent oversight and run after the drummers with the drum, saying, "You have left one behind.
At the end of the feast the drummers removed all the drums but one, which they left as if they had forgotten it.
Tain't like as if Jed was the breed of feller that beats his wife, or that Marthy was the kind that looks out of the corner of her eye at drummers stoppin' to the hotel.
Coldriver had seen tailor-made clothing before, worn by drummers and visitors, but it is doubtful if it had ever really experienced one personally adorning one of its own citizens.
The two women, the ranchman, and one of the drummers had voted that too much leniency was shown.
These included two women from White Lodge, one rancher from Antelope Mesa, and two drummers who were going to call on White Lodge merchants.
I was then lashed to the halberds, and the colonel gave the order for the drummers to commence, each one having to give me twenty-five lashes in turn.
He seemed to be a man without any feeling, for it may be pretty well taken for granted that the drummers did not fail in their duty towards such a man as this, for there is no one they feel more strongly against than a coward.
On the 3d of February we saw bands of young men parading the streets in an uproarious manner, with flags, and preceded by drummers beating the usual rat–tat–tat.
There seemed to be no cause for it; but the drummers beat, and the trumpeters blew, as long as I was within hearing.
Drummers might be wanted at the front, but meanwhile the hospital-camp was undoubtedly short-handed.
Company had been chosen for to-night, by to-morrow you'd have blown the charge, and half the drummers in the regiment would be blacking your eyes out of envy.
Among the killed were a captain, lieutenant, two sergeants, two drummers and one hundred and sixty privates, and a captain and nineteen men taken prisoners.
Of these the 71st lost Lieutenant Thomas Fraser and nine soldiers killed; three drummers and nineteen soldiers wounded.
The drummers seat themselves beside it and all three begin to play; the attendants upon their drums, the centre figure upon a flute.
Opposite to the Shah in two lines were the new raised troops, withdrummers standing in a row at the furthermost extremity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drummers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
