Dozing uneasily with every removable rag removed, I was roused by a blast of intense cold and the drumming of a hundred drums.
The Englishman's attempt to compare the fusillade which greeted the panther to the continuous drumming of a ten-barrelled Nordenfeldt was, however, coldly received.
A cloud of youngsters, sweating freely and ready for any mischief, shot past on their way to breakfast, and the conversation ended in a cloud of sand and the drumming of hurrying hooves.
Amid all this drumming and hawking and flaring of lights were swarms of boys and growing girls, precocious and vicious and foul-tongued.
She smiled grimly to watch Mrs. Macanany and viragoes like her pouring oil on the flames and drumming the weak-kneed up and screaming against "blacklegging" as a thing accurst.
The drumming of that sharp-tailed grouse is like that of the pheasants of old Virginia," responded Lewis.
There are men, like Cunningham, who have heard the drumming of the hoofs behind them as they led their first un-apron-stringed unit out into the unknown.
The notice of his coming was the steady drumming footfall of his horse, that slowed occasionally, and responded to the spur again immediately.
If there was a river here, we should have a flood," thought the keeper, drumming idly on his window-pane.
Big Royce wasdrumming on the window-sill; Stephen was motionless.
There was a long silence, while rain fell with heavy drumming noises and the world was only a deep curtain of lightning-lighted droplets of falling water.
It, however, ceased suddenly, and was followed by a drumming that could only have been made by a galloping horse.
He wheeled his horse in among the birches, and then sat still, with fingers that quivered a little on the carbine-stock, until a faint drumming rose from the prairie.
Then he used the spur, and by and by it became evident that the drumming of their horses' feet had carried far, for, though the rattle grew a little louder, there was no doubt that whoever drove the wagon had no desire to be overtaken.
In the meanwhile Trooper Shannon heard a drumming of hoofs that grew steadily louder before Courthorne apparently noticed the sound, and his trained ears told him that the rustlers' horses were coming down the trail.
The team swung into faster stride, the cold wind whistled past him, and the snow whirled up from beneath the runners, but while he listened, the rhythmicdrumming behind him also quickened a little.
Then, in the stillness that followed, the drumming of hoofs rose from the prairie.
Then she could scarcely see the horses, and the muffled drumming of their hoofs was lost in a doleful wail of wind.
Suddenly he stiffened to attention, for though a man of the cities would probably have heard nothing but the wailing of the wind, he caught a faint rhythmic drumming which might have been made by a galloping horse.
As they came back to him the drumming of hoofs swelled into a staccato roar, while presently the trail grew steep, and dark boughs swayed above him.
The lights had faded, and the harsh grass was crackling under the drumming hoofs when the blurred outline of a mounted man showed up on the crest of a rise, and a shout came down.
Accordingly he headed at a gallop down the winding trail, while sharp orders and a drumming of hoofs grew louder behind him, and hoarse cries rose in front.
When the drumming of hoofs was lost in the moaning of the wind he strode towards the stable, and taking up the lantern surveyed Winston's horse thoughtfully.
Now and then a half-moon blinked down between wisps of smoky cloud, but for the most part gray dimness hung over the prairie, and the drumming of hoofs rang stridently through the silence.
A faint staccato drumming that rose from the silent prairie throbbed through the final chords of it, and when the music ceased, swelled into the gallop of a horse.
Then there was a rapid drumming of hoofs as two troopers went off at a gallop, while when the rest turned back towards the outpost.
Just as he had made this out the line came rattling to a stop, the distant drumming of hoofs was still, and as the long file knotted itself into a rosette of ruddy color amid the April green, a clear, shrill trumpet blew and blew again.
He was drumming upon a skull, and incessantly exclaiming, "Ho, Kali!
There was a loud drumming of feet, and the door opened.
She was obviously making an effort not to appear too highly gratified by the news she had heard, and was regarding Denis thoughtfully,--her eyebrows slightly raised, and her fingers drumming lightly on the arms of her chair.
The attorney, who had been drumming a little tattoo on the table, watches Longcluse earnestly as he speaks, suspending his tune, now lowers his eyes to the table, and resumed his drumming slowly with a very dismal countenance.
They put him down, and he ran violently round and round, drumming with his hind legs on the floor of the shed, startling the does that couched, like cats, among the lettuce leaves and carrots.
It screamed high above the drumming and hissing of the rain.
It was a warm afternoon, and the air was calm; not a breath stirred the leaves on the old trees around us; the forest sounds were hushed, save the tap of the woodpecker on his hollow tree, or an occasional drumming of a partridge on his log.
This over, he betook himself to whistling, at the same time, keeping time to his music by drumming his heel heavily on the floor.
On and on he ran, the blood drumming in his ears, the goat-skin pounding maddeningly about his shoulders.
But now he began drumming with his disarmed fingers upon the key-board of the table, and provided his wife in his novel with the holy supper.
Just then he (or was it I, for I sometimes beat such little trills on the table) might have made some such slight drumming with his fingers on the edge of the board.
Mayenne was silent, with knit brows, drumming his hand on the table.
Still was Mayenne silent, drumming on the edge of the table.
I suppose there is no possibility of your drumming up anyone to row us over in time to catch them?
A halt took place in the quick tattoo which Mr. Gryce's fingers were drumming out on the table-top.
Rama bids the boys sound the note of gathering, and at once such a clashing and drumming arises as would frighten all the devils of the palm-groves.
A young man of not more than twenty, with a gleaming mass of gold braid on his left shoulder, the mark of the lieutenant, had the next seat to him; he was nervously drumming on the table with his finger-nails.
There had been no reply from the bulwarks to the Englishman's burst of temper; but Lieutenant Morris stood there drumming with his fingers on the hilt of his sword, and looking out into the darkness.
Sometimes it was quite empty, and McCarthy sat drumming his blunt fingers on the window-sill, chewing a cigar, and gazing out over the city he owned.
McCarthy ruminated, drumming his thick fingers on the desk.
This probably gave rise to the opinion of one old lady, who knew "drumming on a pan did good, for she had tried it.
I am not quite as sure as the old lady, who knew that "drumming on a tin-pan did good," but I am inclined to think it had some effect.
At the turn appeared Jib Pottoway, his pony in a lather, recalled by the sound of the runaways' drumming hoofs.
At that moment, with a whoop and a drumming of hoofs, a calico cow pony came racing along the trail toward the stalled car.
