sistrums

When they shook their tambourines and sistrums, in voluptuous poses, feudal barons found them irresistible, but that made them all the more hateful in the eyes of the pious and grave, a reaction that was for Alobar a source of endless delight.

La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

Using their charm to conciliate the gods, they wave musical instruments about rhythmically: sistrums and sacred rattles whose music pacified and thrilled the divinities; the menat, whose rows of pearls banging together produced a rustling sound soothing to divine ears.

Archive 2008-08-01 Jan 2008

Using their charm to conciliate the gods, they wave musical instruments about rhythmically: sistrums and sacred rattles whose music pacified and thrilled the divinities; the menat, whose rows of pearls banging together produced a rustling sound soothing to divine ears.

Exhibit of Egyptian Queens Jan 2008

All four priests raised their hands together, and began to chant in time to the chiming of the sistrums shaken by the priestesses.

Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

He peeked carefully through a tiny gap between the curtain and the doorpost, as he heard the chiming sound of sistrums and the footsteps of many people.

Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

With a last shake of the sistrums, the priests dropped their arms as one, and filed out the door, as solemnly as they had come.

Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

Chanting and setting spells of protection, accompanied by little priestesses with sistrums and boys with drums, it appeared that they were determined to cover every corridor of the compound, and in the process, get in everyone's way.

Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

The next day, Vetch thought he heard music at sunrise'the distant blare of trumpets and the pounding of drums, the shaking of sistrums.

Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

They were chanting and shaking sistrums over the brazier in one corner in which cauterizing tongs glowed red hot.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

She clung to his shoulder for support, for the drop into the Nile opened behind her, The worshippers kept up a low monotonous chant, while a dozen separate bands of musicians tapped their drums and rattled their sistrums.

The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995