bugle-calls

Memories of bitter humiliations, determined triumphs, great victories, and bugle-calls that sounded from earth to heaven.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

He explains how he had put in a good deal of work, with his secretary, on the orchestrelle to get the bugle-calls.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

North-West Frontier and the Cavalry Club — she saw the polo grounds and the parched barrack yards, and the brown squadrons of horsemen galloping with their long lances poised and the trains of their pagris streaming; she heard the bugle-calls and the jingle of spurs, and the regimental bands playing outside the messrooms while the officers sat at dinner in their stiff, gorgeous uniforms.

Burmese Days 2002

The Emperor had a standard attached to his motor and a trumpeter on the box who blew long bugle-calls at every corner.

Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

As I like the fiery, deafening drum-roll and screaming fife, and silver, sweet bugle-calls.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Everything in the CHORKLE family is done by bugle-calls.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891 Various

All that summer day as he lay on the cot, listening to the ripple of the spring, the neighing of the horses, the bugle-calls, and the coming and going of the men, he thought of those comrades shut in the store office without food, and waiting for relief which it must seem would never come.

The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher

The merry clamor and the bugle-calls of the hunters drowned the conversation of these young men.

Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

When we returned to the deck, it was crowded with passengers, the mail was coming aboard, and all sorts of bugle-calls were sounding, for we were carrying "casuals."

A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee

Incessant bugle-calls from the natives added to the commotion, and thousands of Chinese crowded into the Chinese Consulate.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman