Henceforth, as we marched, Irungu's drummers and fifers kept us alive on the way.
The battalion marched away one Monday morning, with flags flying, drums beating loudly, and the fifers blowing away upon "Yankee Doodle" with all of their might.
Then they wheeled to the right, the fifers started up a lively air, and the cadets marched around the hall three times, and at last into the door nearest to the mess-hall or dining room.
We'll do without the drums; but you must all turn out, and the fifers can play.
The fifers couldn't whistle for laughing, and the major ordered us all back to our places when only half down the line, and never even attempted another parade until a full supply of brand-new drums arrived for us from Washington.
While we lay at Secundrabad, one of my fifers died, of the name of Wilkins.
And the bells pealed, the cannon posted on the market-place thundered, and the fifers and fiddlers made as much noise as possible.
Now came five mounted pages with fifers and drummers, and then Lorenzo himself.
Trumpeters and fifers marched in front, the bridesmen walked beside, and behind rode Messer Carlo and Messer Tommaso de’ Medici, surrounded by their servants.
The fifers played the Rogue's March, and the bellman went ahead singing a song.
They were the early risers of the camps, too, for at daybreak the fifers and drummers of a regiment would all assemble and sound the reveille, which was several minutes exercise of the most vigorous kind.
The change called for fifers and drummers instead of buglers, and the Jefferson county boy was the first drummer the regiment had, his drum being a present from the officers at Fort Worth.
The next duty of the fifers and drummers was to sound the sick call.
The companies who had just answered roll call were kept formed while all of the fifers and drummers marched to the guard-house.
While the drummers were practicing outside of the Battery, Sergeant Hanke, the fife-major, and a corporal were instructing an equal number of fifers in the school room that was filled with a shrill din as each tried to play a different tune.
The drummers and fifers in front did not see him, and the stupid Waldeckers, ignorant of English and of everything but the routine of their regiment, took him as a part of the event.
As the trumpeters of the King's American Dragoons are blacks, permission to be granted for the drummers and the fifers to be blacks also.
We stood there as motionless as statues till the fifers and drummers had marched up to barracks, the rolls of the companies had been called, and they themselves dismissed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fifers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
