The effective centre of my Own fife is the Province of Quebec and I would not have it otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [QuebecProblems of Growth] Reference
At the foot of each mast there is a contrivance for securing ropes, called the fife-rail. From Wordnik.com. [Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat] Reference
There was a wee cooper who lived in fife. From Wordnik.com. [Wee Cooper of Fife] Reference
We made quite a little procession, headed by a drum and fife. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
The Blue and Gray in proud array with throbbing fife and drum. From Wordnik.com. [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference
Captain Doughty's Company on parade with the fife-and-drum corps. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
The big man's voice had reached the high, breathy pitch of a fife. From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
The other class marches to fife and drum and sometimes dosey-does. From Wordnik.com. [Beatnik Blonde] Reference
How was I going to guide a new fife when I couldn't even direct my own?. From Wordnik.com. [Makes Me Wanna Holler] Reference
When asked if fife has turned out the way he'd hoped, he replies slowly. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Writer At Home On The Range] Reference
In front march two men with drum and fife to herald the dragon's approach. From Wordnik.com. [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference
Simultaneous increases in doctors and their fees are not an inescapable fact of fife. From Wordnik.com. [The National Health Care Phobia] Reference
Now, back at Disney, his magic toyshop of a movie has come to sweetly malignant fife. From Wordnik.com. [Movies: Tim Burton Looks At Holiday Hell] Reference
In this same spot, fifty years before, she had heard what seemed to her the same fife. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Prince Charles -- and the blood kindles yet to their fife-like and drum-like movements. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
As I like the fiery, deafening drum-roll and screaming fife, and silver, sweet bugle-calls. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Harper standing on the fife rail at the crojack braces could have told them a different story. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas] Reference
"Halt!" he cried; the drum and fife ceased, the arms grounded, the soldiers clamoured for their billets. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
The drum and fife were the best they had known "at musters;" and they were good enough still, to fight by. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
While she was thinking calmly about it a fife began to play a sort of jig in the yard of the fort behind her. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
For them a job has only been a means to an end, a way to earn a living while waiting for their real fife to start. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Humor Helps] Reference
James Holland, a fifer in Cap. Dodge's Company is appointed fife major to this regiment, & is to be obeyed as such. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
A Colorado fife-and-drum duo that became a fixture at tea party gatherings has split up over political differences. From Wordnik.com. [Tea Party Music Duo Splits Over Political Differences] Reference
He is mixing the fife and drum with the "mystic chords of memory" and the music and passion of Martin Luther King Jr. From Wordnik.com. [Obama, The Unifier] Reference
A Colorado fife-and-drum duo that became a fixture at tea party gatherings has split up over political differences. From Wordnik.com. [Tea Party Fife-And-Drum Duo Ripped Apart By Political Differences Reunite (VIDEO)] Reference
General Gates and a guard of twenty men, to the music of fife and drum, to Watertown meeting-house, where the court sat. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
When within four or five miles of the town, while ascending a long hill, I heard the sound of a drum and fife not far ahead. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
The Continental army paraded through Philadelphia (August 30, 1781), dusty and ragged, but keeping step to the fife and drum. From Wordnik.com. [George Washington] Reference
Disneyland. comColonial Williamsburg (Va.) -- An old-fashioned fireworks display and a fife-and-drum version of holiday tunes. From Wordnik.com. [Travel: Snowflakes Not Required] Reference
These prepare you for alarms and agitation, but if good signs appear, you will eventually find a smooth path through your fife. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
At this very hour, in every house of the neighbourhood, sounded the fife and lute, while the inmates indulged in music and singing. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
N.Y., a pair of opera glasses with case, and a fife, for a mandolin, or a banjo with 24 brackets (N.Y. or Brooklyn offers preferred). From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
Colorado's most famous fife and drum combo put their differences aside on Tuesday night for a one-night reunion on the Rachel Maddow show. From Wordnik.com. [Tea Party Musicians, Recently Separated, Reunite On The Rachel Maddow Show (VIDEO)] Reference
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