drummer-boys

It reminded him of the drummer-boys and the barrack-sweepers at Umballa in the terrible time of his first schooling.

Kim 2003

This was not insipid, single-word talk of drummer-boys.

Kim 2003

Hereupon the man caught him by the ear, dragged him to a room in a far-off wing where a dozen drummer-boys were sitting on forms, and told him to be still if he could do nothing else.

Kim 2003

He betrayed no emotion when, after the lecture, Father Victor dragged him from shop to shop buying articles of outfit, nor when envious drummer-boys kicked him because he was going to a superior school did he complain, but awaited the play of circumstances with an interested soul.

Kim 2003

The smaller drummer-boys had to carry their drums on their heads, and most of the men slang their cartridge-boxes around their necks.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

They will like the scene where Dick and Jed join the army as drummer-boys, taking (p. 194) with them Mink, Jed's "awful nice dog," who could do all sorts of cunning tricks.

A Mother's List of Books for Children Gertrude Weld Arnold

The boys come here as young as nine years old, and stay until they are fourteen or fifteen, and then if they like it they go into the real army, and are drummer-boys.

The Children's Book of London

With a desperate rally, in which I believe the drummer-boys shared, we carried the battery for the third time, and held it.

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor

His drummer-boys are the most moving in my limited circle of drummer-boys.

Some Historians 1921

It reminded him of the drummer-boys and the barrack-sweepers at Umballa in the terrible time of his first schooling.

Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900