drumly

• The water was dark and drumly, and the sun was something she had forgotten long ago. —  The Silent Pool - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 25
• In wet, they grow, it is true, dark and drumly--and at midnight, when heaven's candles are put out, loud and oft the angry spirit of the water shrieks. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• Even 'drumly,' an adjective of which Mr. Sharp is so fond that he uses it both in prose and verse, seems to me to be hardly an adequate basis for a new romantic movement However, Mr. Sharp does not always write in dialect. —  Reviews
• By the time we reached the ghat it was quite dark and growing very cold We were quite close to the hills, a heavy dew was falling, and I found that I should have to float down the liver for a mile, and then pole up stream in another channel for two miles before I could reach camp I got my horse into the boat, ordering the elephant driver to travel all night if he could, as I should expect my things to be at camp early in the morning, and the boatmen pushed off the unwieldy ferry-boat, floating us quietly down the rapid 'drumly' stream. —  Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter
• You have to plunge waist deep, or deeper, into roaring torrents, and if the water be at all "drumly" you have not an idea where your next step may fall. —  Angling Sketches

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