drum-taps

• Trucks rolled along the wharves like peals of ordnance, the horse-hoofs beating the boards like heavy drum-taps. —  Blix
• How Manhattan drum-taps led. —  The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman
• The strange rough drum-taps of —  Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
• We heard their drum-taps fading and their trumpet fanfares dying —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919
• Few more words passed, and with another kiss the soldier scaled the wall and galloped away, the triple beat of his charger's hoofs sounding back into the maiden's ears like drum-taps. —  Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 03 : on and near the Delaware

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