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Definition of Drummers
1. drummer [n] - See also: drummer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drummers
Literary usage of Drummers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1867)
"Those drummers and trumpeters are held sacred and inviolable; but they are to
make themselves known by the marks peculiar to them. (198) Maurice, prince of ..."
2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1888)
"City of Hot Springs, Ark. 557, where it is said " drummers are, and have been
for ages, a large and active class of commercial and business agents. ..."
3. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"It soon transpired that they were drummers—one belonging in Cincinnati, the other
in New Orleans. Brisk men, energetic of movement and speech ; the dollar ..."
4. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Peddlers, auctioneers, brokers and drummers.50—The cases last ... unconstitutional a
state law imposing a license tax upon drummers.52 On the other hand a ..."
5. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"... decision declaring unconstitutional a state law imposing a license tax upon
drummers.52 On the other hand a license tax imposed upon an emigrant agent, ..."
6. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"And in case the lieutenant for any county, or the commandant of any regiment,
shall be desirous of keeping up a greater number of drummers than is ..."
7. The Commerce Clause of the Federal Constitution by Ezra Parmalee Prentice, John Garret Egan (1898)
"License Tax Upon drummers.— Taxation of commercial travelers is in many respects
similar to taxation of the occupation of merchants, the most obvious ..."
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