The mad music of the tomtoms and räitas played as Max, with his own hands, set up Sanda's little tent.
Still, he had been sad and thwarted, and the music of the tomtoms and räitas, instead of tributes to his triumph, had been like voices mocking at his failure.
The usual remedy resorted to is to beat the tomtoms to drive away the spirit.
If one is dying they often beat their tomtoms in a furious manner to ward off danger.
Almost nightly one could hear the tomtoms beaten in connection with their worship, or as an accompaniment in their immoral dances; for none of their worship was omitted by the older ones, at least in their homes.
Suddenly the shouts became war whoops, the demons brandished their knives madly, and nodded their branching horns; the tomtoms were beaten with a dreadful din, and terror seized my heart.
The noise of the tomtoms and the harsh shouts of the Indians grew wilder and wilder.
Then the jogies began their work at the back of the koond, hurling down fragments of rock and stones, striking and crashing among the trees, beating tomtoms and howling with all their might.
The tomtoms and trumpets struck up with a sudden blare as the horses were led forward.
And the young ladies smiled still broader, and contorted their bodies still more violently, while the tomtoms crashed louder than ever.
A distant noise of tomtoms and African pipes was audible.
I heard the distant throb oftomtoms beyond the Bureau Arabe in the quarter of the freed negroes.
Then we re-embarked, and as we paddled the men began to sing, and to beat the tomtoms furiously.
Near the prow were two men who beat two tomtomsfuriously almost all the time, which was to show that they were on an important mission.
After these words the tomtoms beat furiously, and guns were fired.
As soon as the villagers got a glimpse of me there was a great commotion; the meeting was suspended, the tomtoms beat with greater fury than before, and soon I found myself surrounded by savage men.
They were singing their war-songs and beating their tomtoms fiercely.
The music though rude, was not inharmonious or displeasing to the ear, and the interrupted beat, uniform regularity, and softness of the tomtoms was even agreeable.
A shrill pipe and numeroustomtoms were the only instruments whose sounds we heard, though we observed a number of men furnished with horns, trumpets, chanks, &c.
When the great tune had been played right through once, and a passionate roll of tomtoms announced its repetition, Irena suddenly shot out her tiny arms, brought her hands down on the knives, seized them and sprang to her feet.
The child looked on with a still gravity, and the tomtoms never ceased.
At the same moment with the uproar of the tomtoms there mingled a loud knocking on the door.
She fed him again, while the tomtoms went on roaring, and the child in its red pillow watched with its weary eyes.
He hears the tomtoms beating, and distant cries as if there were a fantasia.
The hautboy players prolonged a wailing note, and the tomtoms gave forth a fierce and dull murmur almost like a death, roll.
In the city the tomtoms faint away and the red fires fade away.
The musicians blew their hautboys and beat their tomtoms more violently, and all things, Domini thought, were filled with a sense of climax.
I have always heard the tomtoms and the pipes, and I know nearly all the desert songs of the nomads.
The tomtoms accompanied it with an irregular but rhythmical roar which Domini thought was like the deep-voiced shouting of squadrons of fighting men.
Already the tomtoms were throbbing in the street of the dancers, and the shriek of the distant pipes was faintly heard.
The tomtoms pulsed faster and faster, louder and louder, and all the men began to sing a fierce chant, the song surely of desert souls driven crazy by religion.
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