"You find me the tabour, and I will build your dam," Sapper grunted. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
"Although the major assures me that there is all the timber we will need on the site, I plan to use wire mesh for the construction of the abions and human tabour for the filling of the mesh 9 nets with stone and aggregate.". From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
They touch heaven, tabour on it; how their talons sweep. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference
On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Labour's Lost] Reference
Save thee, friend, and thy music: dost thou live by thy tabour?. From Wordnik.com. [Twelfth Night; or What You Will] Reference
Oxford, who loves a tabour next to promoting the cause of it, concluded the Princess was brought to bed, and went to court upon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
Over this skin he tied a string of catgut, which was fastened at the middle to another similar string passing through the whole length of the tabour. From Wordnik.com. [The Phantom of the Opera] Reference
These were easily obtained effects; and I explained to M. de Chagny that Erik imitated the roar of a lion on a long tabour or timbrel, with an ass's skin at one end. From Wordnik.com. [The Phantom of the Opera] Reference
And such a wife may be said to do as a kinswoman of ours that had a husband who was not always himself; and when he was otherwise, his humour was to rise in the night, and with two bedstaves tabour upon the table an hour together. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference
"The more tabour you can provide, the sooner I can divert the flow of the river for you. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
"As regards the provision of tabour, I will be relying on enlisting the aid of the monastic community at St. Frumentius. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
Enter Viola, and Clown with a tabour. From Wordnik.com. [Twelfth Night; or, What You Will] Reference
A bagpipe and a tabour. From Wordnik.com. [Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock)] Reference
A bag-pipe and a tabour. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
Thou hast also the tabour. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Winged figure with a tabour. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Deft his tabour, cudgel stout. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
The sound of tabour and of drum. From Wordnik.com. [Ramayana. English] Reference
Why are the drum and tabour mute?. From Wordnik.com. [Ramayana. English] Reference
Where erst the sound of tabour, blent. From Wordnik.com. [Ramayana. English] Reference
The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabour. From Wordnik.com. [Coriolanus] Reference
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