All too soon the thrum of the banjo ceased, the tom-tom of the drum became muffled and low.
A black thrum cap constituted the old witch's head-gear, and from beneath it her hoary hair escaped in long elf-locks.
There was one Anchises, a twice five-fingered Trojan, that (as old stories say) used tothrum her jacket.
The thrum of power was beating in his brain, the droning, humming power from the engine rooms that would blast, once and forever, the last threat of dictatorship upon any world.
The tinkling of the broken glass was a silvery, momentary sound that protested against the blasting thrum of power that shook the walls.
Softly, and then more boldly, I began to thrum the air of the Hungarian waltz which they had played that night at the Duchess of Carmona’s, while I told Monica I loved her.
Orchards flashed by; there was a rock tunnel, where the lights shone fiercely on rough-hewn stone, and the thrum of the motor became a roar.
By and by came the thrum of an automobile, and I could tell it was a Lecomte.
Another instant, and the population of Manzanares was answering to the thrum of our motor, as soldiers to the call of the drum.
In Scotland there is a children's rhyme upon the purring of the cat: Dirdum drum, Three threads and a thrum; Thrum gray, thrum gray!
Laughter rippled with the rhythmic thrum of the ship, voices rose and fell beyond the lighted windows, and as the old captain looked at her, there was something in her face which he could not understand.
It was pleasant to lie there, flat on his back, with the soothing movement of the ship under him, listening to the musical thrum of it.
Far off, from the red purgatory between the walls, sounds the savage thrum-thrum of a negro orgy, here all is peace and perfume.
But suddenly we heard close by the lament of the rekka (a kind of long fife), accompanied by a wild thrum-thrum of earthenware drums and a curious excited chanting of men's voices.
The hulk of the large ship, sometime since stranded at the back of Thrum Cap, was beaten to pieces in the last gale.
About 12 o'clock the ship had approached so near the Thrum Cap Shoals, that the master became alarmed and sent for Mr. Galvin the master's mate, who was sick below.
The thrum is the fringed end of a weaver's web; a thrum hat was made of very coarse tufted woollen cloth.
But the merry thrum and jingle of the tambourine, and vivacious squeak of the fiddles, and the incessant laughter and prattle of the gay company were a sort of protection.
Towards noon they approached so near the Thrum Cape shoals, that the master became alarmed and sent for Mr. Galvin, one of the master's mates.
Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.
Every sound there was instinctively subdued to the occasion: the laughter of girls, the thrum of lutes, the ring of steel and rustle of silk.
His voice had been small and low, but pure; the sweet thrum of the strings had lifted it to rhapsody.
Stella looked and listened until there was but a faint thrum far up the lake.
In a minute the thrum of the boat's exhaust arose as she got under way.
The stalks are hard and round, set with many such like leaves, but smaller, and at the tops stand many single flowers, upon small foot stalks, consisting of many small white leaves standing round about a yellow thrum in the middle.
The flowers are many and white, standing in tufts like those of Yarrow, with a small yellowish thrum in the middle.
At the top it bears one single large flower at a place, having a border of many leaves, white on the upper side, and reddish underneath, with a yellow thrum in the middle, not standing so close as that of Camomile.
Lady Thrum sat opposite the tea-cups, nodding her head and beating time very gravely.
The enthusiasm of Mr. Slang almost reconciled Lady Thrum to the abruptness of his manners, and even caused Sir George to forget that his chorus had been interrupted by the obstreperous familiarity of the manager.
Sir George Thrum has in his possession the score of an air, the words from 'Samson Agonistes,' an autograph of the late revered monarch.
Sir George Thrum (who, in reply to Walker's note, thought it most prudent to wait personally on that gentleman).
In those days Sir George Thrum was the first great musical teacher of London, and the royal patronage brought him a great number of fashionable pupils, of whom Lady Fitz-Boodle was one.
The very next day Lady Thrum hired a pair of horses, and paid a visit to Mrs. Crump and her daughter at "Sadler's Wells.
These conclusions meet the full approval and indorsement of both Mr. Thrum and Dr.
It was not until I was severely admonished to continue my task, that I could sufficiently control my emotion and resume the horrid thrum thrum of the monotonous music.
