Since the earliest known times, the tomtom has been used to drown the cries of tortured fanatics; its booming is bound up with the thousand barbarisms of false religion.
As each girl passed the tomtom she paid tribute to the sacred instrument by an obeisance to the East for reverence, to the South, playfully, to the West with awe, and to the North for protection from all cold.
I think the idea is charming, but of course there is nothing like the tomtom for an Indian scalp dance or Hopi Indian song," said Miss Miller.
That night he comes to the lodge of her parents, remains outside, beating a tomtom and singing the love song.
An immense tomtom as big as the largest-sized bass-drum was set up between four poles, around which colored cloths were wrapped, and from the tops of which the same gay stuff floated on the wind in bunches of party-colored ribbons.
In the course of a few circles around the tomtom he began shouting of valorous deeds he never had performed, for he was too young to have ridden after buffalo or into battle.
The distant tomtom was surely the beating of that heart into whose mysteries no other human heart could look.
A twang of softly-plucked strings supported its wild and pathetic utterance, and presently the almost stifled throb of a little tomtom that must have been placed at a distance.
The tomtom and the shriek that went with it made it a fierce crescendo.
An old man with one eye lifted his hand, in which was a tomtom of stretched goatskin, and pointed towards the oasis, rapidly moving his toothless jaws.
One of the musicians now took his turn, throwing his tomtom to the eater of glass, who had wakened from his trance.
There was the noise of a tomtom and of a whining shriek.
I saw there their musical instruments, from the tomtom (that is a hoop with two strings of rawhide drawn across it) to the instruments we have that make the common air blossom with melody.
Suppose the king and priests had said: "That tomtom is the finest instrument of music in the world--that is the kind of music found in heaven.
I saw at the same time the musical instruments, from the tomtom, which is a hoop with a couple of strings of rawhide drawn across it--from that tomtom up to the instruments we have today, which make the common air blossom with melody.
Thus a moment, then a second word, the premonitory crack of a whip in the darkness of the gangway, and the tomtombegan to beat the time.
The tomtom fell instantly silent, but the slaves took yet another stroke.
Faster beat the tomtom marking the desperate time, and faster in response to it came the creak and dip of oars and the panting, stertorous breathing of the rowers.
The oars dipped, the slaves strained and the galeasse ploughed forward, time being kept by a boatswain's mate who squatted on the waist-deck and beat a tomtom rhythmically.
The tomtom which announced the end of the hour interrupted him.
It was the tomtom calling him to duty, to the lecture on rhetoric which at this hour he had to deliver to the young priests.
Then they console themselves with the thought that he will come in the morning, when the tomtom resounds, which calls the people to the funeral.
The tomtom is still vainly summoning the only son.
We can all enjoy the target and the Tomtom will help us in dancing," added Miss Miller.
It was the beating of the tomtom at the Emir's palace.
The tomtom still rang out from the palace, and the drums were beating in the watch-towers, though their volume of sound could be heard but faintly above the constantly increasing roar of the maddened people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tomtom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
