Drumly

You have to plunge waist deep, or deeper, into roaring torrents, and if the water be at all "drumly" you have not an idea where your next step may fall. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

There was a gusty wind sweeping drumly clouds athwart the sky -- faintly illuminated by the dying moon; now a few stars appeared momentarily, then a swathe of darkness enveloped all. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)

It was a drumly outlook for one whose chief equipment was honesty of purpose, with, I am afraid, little of the arts of human diplomacy. ❋ James Milne (1908)

To drink of drumly German wells, and make a weary road ❋ Unknown (1895)

And spare to taint your skin with swathes of drumly German mud: ❋ Unknown (1895)

But the weather was "dour," and the water "drumly," and every day the lumbermen sent a "drive" of ten thousand spruce logs rushing down the flooded stream. ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)

At the little stone bridge they stopped, and leaning over the parapet watched the drumly water rushing below; and there Jean reiterated her promise to be Gavin's wife as soon as he was able to make a home for her. ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)

But her ready answer was, “Na, na, he's no just deep, but he's drumly [52]” ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)

The green meadows were not inviting, the grass was dripping, the flowers closed and heavy, the river red and drumly. ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)

I had spent a brief period of my early childhood in Fayetteville, and although so many years had passed since then, the recollection of some of its streets and buildings, the old market house standing in the middle of the main street, the old water mill on the creek hard by with its cease-less "drumly-drum" seemed more vivid as I neared the old town, after a lapse of so many years. ❋ Unknown (1863)

There, still flows the creek with its ceaseless bubble, and the mill going "drumly-drum." ❋ Unknown (1863)

After a tremendous sound sleep, I was up betimes in the morning, though a wee drumly about the head, anxious to enquire at Tammie Bodkin, the head of the business department, me being absent, if any extraordinars had occurred on the yesterday; and found that the only particular customer making enquiries anent me was our old friend Cursecowl, savage for the measure of a killing-coat, which he wanted made as fast as directly. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

In wet, they grow, it is true, dark and drumly -- and at midnight, when heaven's candles are put out, loud and oft the angry spirit of the water shrieks. ❋ John Wilson (1819)

A hang-dog drowsy feeling wrought against me, and I was obliged to lay down the pen and indulge myself in a drumly sleep. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

-- the whilk had three sapphires -- blue stanes, they tell me -- an muckle anes, lowin 'i' the sheath o ''t, an' a muckler ane still i 'the heft; only they war some drumly (clouded), the leddy thoucht, bein' a jeedge o 'hingars at lugs (earrings) an' sic vainities. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Blood's thicker than water, they say, but it's not so pure and transparent; I have found my blood drumly enough. " ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)