While the soldiers were taking their way to the several defenses of the fort there was the beating of Indian drums at a distance, followed by the blowing of a bugle in the camp of the desperadoes.
The drums rolled, the fifers struck up a lively air, and the three companies, headed by a major, marched around the stockade several times and then to the parade-ground in front of the gates.
Again the Indian drums were rolling, coupled with shrill warwhoops.
Drums beat and trumpets sounded; shrieks came out of riot, and groans issued from the wake of galloping hoofs.
For the whole people is in glad array, and the drums will beat and music will delight the ears of all; and the musicians will sing thy praises and all will wish thee long life and happiness.
The drums beat, and music echoed through the City.
The oblation to the dancing gods wound up the performance, and the chorus of a thousand voices blended with the triumph of drums and explosions from musical artillery.
The army moved in Daedalian march; it was at times sinuous with labyrinthic movement to the sound of drums and the roar of bugles.
It is to usher in the regimental band, and orders the drums and the fifes to desist.
The drums and fifes strike up briskly, and play a merry march.
Not Chaldea appeared more ancient, nor the Pyramids of Egypt more abstruse; and I heard time measured by "the drums and tramplings" of immemorial conquests, and saw myself the creature of an hour.
To give the impression on the other side the sheet is to be turned over, and this is effected by the two drums in the centre of the machine.
The drums have conveyed the sheet during this inking upon the second cylinder; it is brought in contact with the types, and the operation is complete.
Steadily the wind Rages up the shore: In the trees it roars and battles, With rattling drums And heavy spears, Towards the housefronts on it comes.
He stood at his father's side and the drumswere beginning.
I must have walked half the night, hearing the drums at Crooked Water scaring away evil influences.
When he heard the drums he flared up like a spark in the tinder.
It lay in the thick air like the smell of the lagoons; by night you could hear it throbbing with the drums that scared away the wandering lights from the nine villages.
There was a great noise of singing a little back from the huts at the Dancing-Place, and all the drums going, and the smoke that drifted along the trails had the smell of a Big Eating.
Trombones are never used, and trumpets and drums only in the overture the march with a chorus (Act III.
In the Gloria, flutes, oboes, horns, anddrums and trumpets are employed in the customary alternations.
The commander of the troops orders the drums and trumpets to strike up, that his voice might be drowned, and that he should not proceed.
Colonel testily, and when the boys had gone he read the Bazar-Sergeant's son a lecture on the sin of unprofitable meddling, and gave orders that the Bandmaster should keep the Drums in better discipline.
Once before it had been solemnly reported to him that "the Drums were in a state of mutiny," Jakin and Lew being the ringleaders.
These drums are quite small, only measuring ten inches across by three deep, they are carried by a handle and are supposed to act as talismans.
Never in my life had the drums of my ears been so ill-treated.
Etiquette insists that on any occasion when the Emperor is present all drums must be muffled by being rolled in folds of cloth.
The roll of drums and the blowing of trumpets continued, and Willie thought he heard the sound of cannon, but he was quite unable to leave his bed, something seeming to hold him there.
Another roll of drums and the room was filled with soldiers, all of whom greeted Willie with profound respect.
Tiny drums are also carried by pedlars when hawking their wares.
Eastern drums differ from those of Europe in having their heads nailed on, not kept movable as ours are for tuning purposes.
There is a march of Science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
He marvels at the paradox, drumshis head with the tattoo: how can a thing as small as he shape and maintain an art out of himself universal enough to carry her daily vigil to crystalled immortality?
To-day, we are to wait on the table together; but the next time she drums a company of matrimonial candidates together, you alone will be summoned.
Bands of them with flags flying and drums beating marched about shouting "Long live the Republic!
In twenty seconds the drums roll again, then the bugle rings out, but further off.
When he had run through these the drums tapped loudly, and several of the old chiefs shook their rattles, in corroboration of the truth of his achievements.
A hundred boisterous drums were now making the thickets ring with the "long roll.
At the end of the week he heard the drums beat, the cannon fire, and the people cheer.
Avignon followed me with its bells and drums and bugles; for the old city has no equal for multitude of such noises.
The drums and fifes up in the castle are sounding the guard-call through the dark, and there is a great rattle of carriages without.
Here their procureur made an oration, and demanded from the officer of woods and forests two trees of his own choice in the king's name, which were carried to Paris amid much playing of drums and fifes and trumpets.
The ceremony was accompanied by the sound ofdrums and musical instruments and was followed by a holiday.
I 'm unable to continue this theme, for there go the drums again,--there are forty of them at it now!
But high over the thunder of cannon were heard the words of command, and drums beating the charge; and still bravely breasting the fiery sleet, the ranks pressed forward, but only to melt away on the brink of that fatal ditch.
The drums immediately beat to quarters, and every vessel was cleared for action.
The Typees, assembled in the valley below to the number of four or five thousand, appeared to entertain the same expectations, for they began to shout and beat their drums in exultation.
Discovering, at length, by the incessant firing in a single place, that the Americans were making no progress, he ordered the drums to beat the charge.
The American troops were busy cooking their dinner when the drums beat to arms, announcing the approach of this much dreaded army.
Therefore in night fighting, beacons and drums are largely used; in day fighting, a great number of banners and flags and the enemy's eyes and ears are confounded.
At the end of this anthem the drums beat, and the trumpets sounded, and all the people shouted, crying out, God save King George the Fourth!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drums" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
