kettle-drums

They are their own fanfare, their own roll on the kettle-drums, their own whipper-in.

Another Voice 2009

The tecbir was so loudly uttered, that I was scarcely aware that kettle-drums and brazen cymbals were sounding in concert with it.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

Then the day came to an end and the kettle-drums beat the retreat; whereupon Gharib left the field and rode towards the Moslem camp.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Marids had fallen Then the kettle-drums beat the retreat, and the two hosts drew apart, — And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased Baying her permitted say.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Accordingly, the kettle-drums beat to combat and the standards fluttered whilst the fighting-men armour donned and their horses mounted and themselves displayed and to plain fared.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Thomas de Vaux had not made many steps beyond the entrance of the royal pavilion when he was aware of what the far more acute ear of the English monarch — no mean proficient in the art of minstrelsy — had instantly discovered, that the musical strains, namely, which had reached their ears, were produced by the pipes, shalms, and kettle-drums of the

The Talisman 2008

Neither did they strike kettle-drums again at the head of that famous regiment until they behaved themselves so notably at the field of Leipsic; a lesson whilk is not to be forgotten, any more than that exclamation of the immortal

A Legend of Montrose 2008

Then the old woman bade beat the kettle-drums for departure and the army set out.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Finland cuirassiers reprimanded, and their kettle-drums taken from them, by the immortal Gustavus, because they had assumed the permission to march without their corslets, and to leave them with the baggage.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

As soon as it was morning Jaland mounted with two hundred and sixty-thousand fighting-men, clad cap-à-pie in hauberks and cuirasses and strait-knit mail-coats, the kettle-drums beat a point of war and all drew out for cut and thrust and fight and fray.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006