drummer-boy

Castine offered not only the local legend of the drummer-boy ghost, but proximity to the ocean and the pull of Alvilda, pirate Queen.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Therese Walsh, The Last Will of Moira Leahy, part 2 2009

About mid-winter a party of hostile Lipans made a swoop around and skirting the garrison, killing a herder -- a discharged drummer-boy -- in sight of the flag-staff.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Post-intro, its a fun little drummer-boy song, and I love the amount of grit involved in the guitar.

Buzzine » Peter, Bjorn & John 2009

Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy.

Les Miserables 2008

Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: “Forward!” as the horse of Scripture says

Les Miserables 2008

There was a little drummer-boy I was fond of who was hit down before my company at Kuhnersdorf; when

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

A drummer-boy at fourteen in the War of the Rebellion, a private at sixteen and eighteen, he had subsequently been breveted for conspicuous military service.

The Titan 2004

This is not upon the principle, as some suppose, of the grey-headed post-boy and drummer-boy: all the Kraoh tribes end their names in bo, e.g. Worebo, from “wore,” to capsize a canoe; Grebo, from the monkey “gre” or “gle;” and many others.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Then they marched him back in charge of a drummer-boy to empty, lime-washed barracks, whose floors were covered with rubbish and string and paper, and whose ceilings gave back his lonely footfall.

Kim 2003

Though he would not say so, Kim of course disbelieved every word the drummer-boy spoke about the Liverpool suburb which was his England.

Kim 2003