Kumran hearing of this was very angry, for the beating of a kettledrum is a sign of Empire. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Akbar] Reference
Three rolls on the kettledrum shall be the signal. From Wordnik.com. [Cromwell] Reference
At half-past eleven a kettledrum sounds a summons to the. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
If Flaubert had meant a kettledrum, he would have said so. From Wordnik.com. [No Way, Madame Bovary] Reference
Badawin sometimes, though rarely, use a table or kettledrum. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
So a kettledrum became the most fashionable of entertainments. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
The whole capsule vibrated with it like a pea in a kettledrum. From Wordnik.com. [A Meeting with Medusa]
His skin was stretched taut against the kettledrum of his pelvis. From Wordnik.com. [‘Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel’] Reference
Her walking dress was manifestly a dress inappropriate to a kettledrum. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Another enthusiastic lady esconsced herself contentedly upon a kettledrum. From Wordnik.com. [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference
In the deep silence, Simon's heartbeat thundered in his ears like a kettledrum. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The blur had vanished, the footsteps gone, and my heart was pounding like a kettledrum. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
His skin was warm, the pulse beneath pounding with the reassuring cadence of a kettledrum. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
Namely that pan that sounds like a kettledrum every time it smacks the side of your stirrup. From Wordnik.com. [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference
The casting's right hand is raised over its head as if getting ready to strike the kettledrum. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
I passed a couple of colorful beatniks playing on a warm wooden kettledrum and a beat-up guitar. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Denlinger: Bartering My Future] Reference
On it, between flaring torches, stood a giant who held a kettledrum beneath one arm like a tom-tom. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
Who of those inspired by Cybele are made beside themselves to this extent by the flute and the kettledrum?. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
The universe was noise and I was an organ of hearing, a vibrating surface, a cymbal, a gong, a kettledrum. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
Even hazed by distance, his bearing was so distinct that Lucy's heart started thundering like a kettledrum. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
She heard F'lar's boots pounding down the passage to the ledge, a sharp ta-ta-tat over the kettledrum booming hum. From Wordnik.com. [DragonFlight]
At first it was a distant booming, like someone playing a kettledrum down in the basement with all the doors closed. From Wordnik.com. [RL’s Dream] Reference
I commented over on your kettledrum site, but I just had to say that I am so glad you are doing these historical blogs. From Wordnik.com. [Nicolas Appert: Father of Canning] Reference
The pitch of the kettledrum can be changed by manipulating screws at the edge of the skin or pedals at the bottom of the drum. From Wordnik.com. [kettledrum] Reference
I woke up in the shadowed dark, hands clenched in the bedclothes, heart beating with a force that shook me like the skin of a kettledrum. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Gong and loud kettledrum and fierce-blown tempestuous organ. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2] Reference
That kettledrum at the lodge is one of the brightest spots in my memory. From Wordnik.com. [My Young Alcides] Reference
Then follows the golden bell affair again, with a kettledrum substituted. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
At half-past eleven a kettledrum sounds a summons to the Jami or Cathedral. From Wordnik.com. [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference
Many's the time I've got the kettledrum when trying to move through a menu. From Wordnik.com. [PVRblog] Reference
"Let us have kettledrum together for the last time, till you come back to us.". From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume III.] Reference
The gleam of uniforms in a drab world, the upright bearing, the rattle of a kettledrum, the boom of. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Rebellion] Reference
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