bass drum

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• I couldn't hear much over the thundering bass drum beating in my ears, but made out Dr. Cannon saying, "Don't say another word." —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2005
• Then he got a bass drum which Curtis learned to play, and a very warlike sound often went up from the peaceful old homestead. —  My Boyhood
• It was quite a sight, he marching ahead, high-stepping and using his scythe handle like a drum major's baton, she following on a bicycle behind a bass drum which she played with big drumsticks attached to her knees while pounding her various bones with xylophone mallets. —  EQMM,September-October2007
• My brain seems to have been connected to a bass drum machine and while I was sleeping, somebody stuffed my mouth with cotton wool, then left a dead reptile there for long enough to make my mouth taste of decaying lizard. —  Booked for Murder—McDermid, Val - Lindsay Gordon 05
• Anon followed some marches, with the occasional bang of the bass drum to “disfigure or present” the distant cannon; and then there was a pause, and the people began to get up. —  Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis

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