2. Verb. (third-person singular of drum) ¹
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Definition of Drums
1. drum [v] - See also: drum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drums
Literary usage of Drums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"BEAT ! beat! drums!—blow! bugles ! blew! Through the windows—through doors—burst
like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"drums! 1865. BEAT ! beat! drums 1 — blow ! bugles I blow ! Through the.windows —
through doors — burst like a ruthless force, Into the school where the ..."
3. The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology by Harry Ignatius Marshall (1922)
"Four or five classes of such drums are distinguished, of which the Karen drums
form one group.1 The Karen drums are characterized by a nearly straight ..."
4. Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs by Richard Wallaschek (1893)
"Kettle-drums especially are mentioned with the ... is to be heard for
miles.2 Kettle-drums and tambourines occur among the ..."
5. Bugle-echoes: A Collection of the Poetry of the Civil War, Northern and Southern by Francis Fisher Browne (1886)
"BEAT ! beat 1 drums !—blow! bugles ! blow! Through the windows—through doors—burst
like a ... Then rattle quicker, heavier drums—you bugles wilder blow. ..."
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