It is generally at watering-time that the creature makes itself heard with loud trumpetings which are audible at an immense distance and betray its presence to its human enemy.
He was not to be deflected from his purpose even by the trumpetings of the elephants themselves, though these were quite audible at times.
To thetrumpetings of heralds and the sheen of angels' wings, triumphantly he came.
But with louder screams and wilder trumpetings the mammoth held straight on, and presently came to the harbour's edge, and sent the spray sparkling in sheets amongst the sunshine as it went with its clumsy gait into the water.
With wild squeals and trumpetings it turned and charged viciously down the way it had come, scattering like straws the spearmen who tried to stop it, and mowing a great swath through the crowd with its monstrous progress.
I am confident that he enjoyed himself; and I am equally sure that his trumpetings peopled the dusk for me with great captains and mighty armies, and touched with a certain militancy all my youthful dreaming.
Those trumpetings have lingered always in my memory, and color my recollection of all that was near and dear in those days.
It was well for the sanity of the king in the first months of that imprisonment that the elephant was a fellow prisoner; and by his low trumpetings conveyed to him his sympathy and loyalty.
We, however, had him in our power, and felt pretty sure that his trumpetingswould soon be over.
For an instant the forest was filled with shrill trumpetings and the earth seemed to shake beneath the tread of the frightened beasts.
Jack, deadly pale, gripped his gun and waited while the crashings and trumpetings died away.
Yet the liquid song of the rain, the gurgling sighs and trumpetings of the wind entranced me; and I turned softly to glance at my stranger.
All was quiet, however, but on entering my room, there was a strangeness in the air, and that not due to my landlady's forlorn trumpetings from above.
Other trumpetings were heard at the same time, which showed us that he had other companions besides the one we had seen.
The trumpetings and cries of the elephants sounded loudly in my ears.
You have a martial poem like the Iliad, full of the gilt and scarlet and trumpetings and blazonry of war;--and you find the Bhagavad-Gita a chapter in it.
The uproar was deafening, which, with the trumpetings of the frightened elephants, made the stoutest hearts quail.
Right across the center of the crescent careened a great hulking figure, uttering loud trumpetings--trumpetings that were taken up by his companions until the very ground seemed to shake.
Through it all should march Hope, confident Hope, radiant and invincible, until at last it would be the triumph march of Hope the conqueror, coming with trumpetings and banners through the wide-flung gates of the world.
In those days I had believed firmly in the necessary advent of a last day, a great coming out of the sky, trumpetings and fear, the Resurrection, and the Judgment.
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