A pea on a drumhead is a restful object in comparison with Watson on that ice-hill. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference
Andre got a "drumhead" trial before General Washington. From Wordnik.com. [PA Pundits - International] Reference
This is called the drumhead service. From Wordnik.com. [Briefing On D Day And Its Commemoration Events] Reference
As a drumhead gets hotter and drier, what happens?. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
What, Wolfowitz's drumhead courtmartials are not legal?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference
A drumhead court-martial is a hurried trial held in camp. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 25, April 29, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
Then he stamped hard, both feet thundering on the drumhead. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Gods of The Mountain]
It sounded in the silence as if it were falling on a drumhead. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
"That they can shoot us by drumhead court martial if we refuse?". From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8: The Machine Breakers] Reference
A drumhead isn't that expensive, nor does it need to look pretty. From Wordnik.com. [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference
Believe every punctured drumhead, and every broken guitar string. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Mallory: Punk's Not Dead] Reference
He, in turn, leaped insensately, making the drumhead dance madly. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Gods of The Mountain]
"Well, how d'ye like that for a drumhead court-martial, Mr Flashman?". From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
There, after a drumhead court martial, Allende was executed on August 1. From Wordnik.com. [Orderly rebel: the life and thought of Ignacio de Allende (1779–1811)] Reference
The third class is chiefly represented by the common or drumhead cabbage. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Beneath the drumhead of imposed emotionlessness, Flandry felt his body stiffen. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
The drumhead mottled and dark-ened in her hand, as though it, too, was mourning. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
These gestures gave the drumhead whole new kinds of movement, also unpredictable. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Gods of The Mountain]
His skin lay stretched drumhead tight over prominent cheekbones and a lantern jaw. From Wordnik.com. [Starfishers]
For Conan, the world had shrunk to the drumhead and the man who stood on it with him. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Gods of The Mountain]
Each player nominated a card and another man dealt the cards face up onto the drumhead. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
Márquez immediately formed a drumhead court martial and Ocampo was sentenced to death. From Wordnik.com. [Melchor Ocampo (1814–1861)] Reference
“Harriet, I need to go and get a sort of drumhead court martial organised,” he said. From Wordnik.com. [Presumption of Death]
Summary procedure made it easy to decide that the sentence of drumhead court-martial was death. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
And that is not something that can be accomplished by some drumhead tribunal in some naval base. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2001] Reference
The large drumhead cabbage requires an hour to boil; the green savory cabbage will boil in twenty minutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Forward, a bit of a staysail was set as taut as a drumhead, looking no bigger than a good-sized handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
Chesa claimed it came from too little sleep, but sleeping was difficult when your head felt taut as a drumhead. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
There have been no drumhead or other courtmartials and none will take place while I am in command here in Dayton. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
But it was quiet instead, with a quality of silence Liam might have expected to find at a drumhead court-martial. From Wordnik.com. [Fire and Ice]
He was at once made a prisoner and marched as such to Walmer forest, when the commanding officer applied for a drumhead court-martial. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference
He might also be unexpectedly brought before a drumhead courtmartial in connection with a resistance movement, and condemned to death. From Wordnik.com. [Commandant of Auschwitz]
The method in which the feed water is introduced through the front drumhead of the boiler is clearly seen by reference to the illustration. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
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