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  • 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

  • Avengers, with their shrilling drums and shalms tramp by; she will then sit pensive, apprehensive, and pass rather a sleepless night.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • They then marched completely round the hall, in order the more fully to display themselves, regulating their steps to organs, shalms, hautboys, and virginals, the music of the Lord Leicester's household.

    Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

  • They then marched completely round the hall, in order the more fully to display themselves, regulating their steps to organs, shalms, hautboys, and virginals, the music of the Lord Leicester’s household.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • Mass, solemnly sung with shalms and sack-buts, in the Abbey Church of the Holyroodhouse, "and the Great Seal of Scotland appended to the treaty.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

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