For in the silence I heard the sound of the shaken sistra heralding the coming of the Glory.
Some rattled as ten thousand sistra shaken all to tune.
There was silence for a hundred breaths; then music of flute and lyre and sistra as the priests retreated up the temple steps followed by fanfare on a dozen trumpets as the door swung to behind the priests.
The stirring, shaken sistra wrought a miracle of sound that set the nerves all tingling as the high priest, followed by his boys with swinging censers and the members of the priestly college, four by four, came chanting down the temple steps.
Howbeit they be very like in properties and vertue, and be put eche for other; but Sistra is of more vertue then Mew, and the leaves be lyke an herbe called Valde Bona, and beareth smaller sprigges as Spiknarde.
There was nothing but the monotonous rattling of the sistra carried by the long-robed pilgrims who walked in procession to the temple.
In the immensity of the pillared spaces the countlesssistra rattled eerily, producing a vibration which was no longer music: it was as though the pylons and pillars themselves were rattling, as though the very earth were rattling.
The monotonous melody of the sistra rattled on every side; on every side the lamps twinkled.
But the romance ended abruptly when Sistra Lebideva threw the Russian lieutenant over and went to nurse on another front where later the Russians turned traitor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sistra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
