Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrummer
Literary usage of Thrummer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"Rizzio, doubtless, was a fiddler, thrummer on the lute, or other maker of pleasant
noises ; but he was, over and above, a true sixteenth century Italian ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... breeches 1 What though the splendour of my lines To SWINBURNE'Sheight ne'er
reaches? The theme, if not the thrummer, shines ; That theme ..."
3. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1843)
"The person thus employed was evidently no common thrummer. His performance was
that of one who had perfected himself on the instrument, in the land to which ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1864)
"Rizzio, doubtless, was a fiddler, thrummer on the lute, or other maker of pleasant
noises; but he was, over and above, a true sixteenth century Italian ..."
5. The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the by Inchbald, Elizabeth Inchbald (1808)
"Well, but Sir William, let me tell you, you know nothing of the matter; this man
is a music- master; a thrummer of wire, and a scraper of catgut, ..."
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