Whenever I hear the fife and the drum And the bugles wildly play, My heart is stirred like a frightened bird, And struggles to break away: For the tramp of the volunteers I hear And the Captain’s sharp command, Left!
I returned with “taps” and arose with “revielle,” and to this day the sound of fife and drum stirs every drop of patriotic blood in my veins and takes me back to the days of camp life at Corinth.
From its elevated seat, you could see the slopes of Fife lying fair below the sun, and the gallant Forth between.
Yonder lights on the Fife shore are clear now--do you see them?
My mother was a Fife woman--I have lived at Colinsbrugh mysel; and we can see baith Inchkeith and the May in a clear day, no to speak o' the Bass.
A song is as necessary to sailors as the drum andfife to a soldier.
Roll went the drum, and the fife played cheer’ly, To quick time we footed, and sung all the way ‘Hey for the pretty girls we love so dearly!
Knox, along with Moray, went to Fife as soon after as it became apparent that forcible measures must be taken to secure toleration for the Protestants.
Then beat your drum lowly and play your fife slowly, Beat the Dead March as you carry me along; We all love our cowboys so young and so handsome, We all love our cowboys although they've done wrong.
The sound of a fife and drum, the sight of a soldier's uniform, stir him and set his blood a-tingling.
A large drum-and-fife corps keeps up the interest, and the officers and most of the governors of the club are chosen from among the boys themselves.
I scarce had arrived until the fife began to play, and the whole of the rioters came on to the court-house, then headed by Wilson.
The court was sitting when this armed force, levying war against the State, with a fife playing, marched resolutely forward.
Of the town and the man Mr Stevenson gives a graphic picture in Random Memories, when describing a visit to the Fife coast, where his father was making an inspection of lights and harbours.
Balfour's household and Miss Balfour, and the nephews and nieces who had their home with her--who made of the little Fife town their holiday resort.
Besides, their religious ideas were equally outraged by the fife and drum on Sunday, with the oaths and loud commands of officers, where heretofore all had been peace and quiet.
Every time he heard the fife and drum he would run out on the square, slip between the spectators’ legs and watch, with the closest attention, the trained dogs performing their exercises.
The drum andfife started up and the ballet commenced.
Fife, ten, twenty-fife more fish than come he say there was.
Delhi stranded with the Duke and Duchess of Fife off the Morocco coast, he rendered valuable assistance.
Next day the East Fife Unionists decided not to oppose the Prime Minister, and he was returned on April 8 without a contest.
The Prime Minister was returned unopposed to Parliament for East Fife on his appointment as Secretary for War.
And I kept repeating to myself the old rhyme of the witches-- "The Thane of Fife had a wife, Ah, where is she now!
Six months later Alexander fell from his horse on a stormy night on the Fife coast--and the prophetic omen was remembered, or constructed.
Braemar And then the sight of Braemar, and a consciousness that if you are about to spend more money at the Fife Arms or the Invercauld than any but royalty has a right to spend--royalty not having earned it--the adventure has been worth it.
For Fifeshire is given over to farm lands and coal fields and treeless stretches, and the fringe of Fife is made up of fishing villages "a hodden gray plaid wi' a gowden fringe," said a King Jamie.
It was a beautiful place as the Scotch sun sank behind the Fife hills and the Firth.
I've lived in Fife Baith maid and wife These ten years and a quarter, Gin ye should come to Anster Fair Speir ye for Maggie Lauder.
Gardiner was unfortunate as a bookseller, and ultimately obtained employment in the publishing office of the Fife Herald.
And if so, then I am proud to aver that inFife I came to possess many intelligent and excellent friends.
It was first printed, in January 1829, in the Fife Herald newspaper, with a humorous preface by Vedder, and was afterwards copied into the Edinburgh Literary Gazette.
Lord Fife has been dismissed from the Bedchamber, in consequence of his vote on the Malt Tax, and Lord Lovaine is to succeed him.
The anti-Catholic country gentlemen complain of the apathy of the country; and the King has told Lord Fife he hopes he will vote according to his fancy on the question.
I don't know the names of all his retinue in the yacht, but Lord Fife is invited to be one of his companions, and goes accordingly.
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