side-drum

It has some gorgeous music in it -- the scene outside of the monastery walls is amazing -- but I thought I'd been sent to hell when that scene outside the fair with the trumpet and side-drum dragged on and on and on and.....

Fun at the opera? Heaven forfend! Jessica 2006

The fourth form had got up a jazz band, which sounded simply marvellous, though Mam'zelle said that she could easily do without the side-drum, which could be heard rat-a-tat-tatting from a music room at all kinds of odd hours.

The Twins At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

The side-drummer, who played the side-drum, bass drum, cymbals, Chinese block, motor-horn, triangle, and clappers was a boy who had lost both eyes.

Through St. Dunstan's to Light James H. Rawlinson

A rataplan on a side-drum feebly played in the street outside!

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

An abrupt silence prepares for a fierce thunderous clamor from the tympani and the great drum (beaten with the sticks of the side-drum).

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

I seated myself, silently wondering what might be the use of the side-drum in the corner.

The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Come in -- you will find pen, ink, and paper on the side-drum in the corner.

The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"France" -- "France" -- the very "r" in that glorious word kept beating in my ears with the roll of a side-drum.

Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The drummer drew a long applausive rattle from his side-drum; the trombone player sawing the air with his instrument, as with a fret-saw, evoked noises not to be described.

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Around the side-drum, beneath its cracked brown varnish, I could hardly trace a royal coat-of-arms, and a legend running -- _Per Mare per Terram_ -- the motto of the

Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903