Twinkling chaffer/roarers followed behind them, quickly surpassing the pillars as they raced into the starfield. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The calls may come from bull-roarers, trumpets, rattles, wooden clackers, songs, bells, or the chanting of muezzin atop the minarets. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Plus, found John Zorn's new album Rituals which from advance comment is a fascinating soundscape, involving woodwinds, strings, and horns as well as wind machines, bull roarers, the sound of gravedigging, and "a live owl". ❋ Badger (2005)
These people, now Democratic wonksters and blog-roarers, only talk to other people as isolated from reality as they are. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The ritual drone of Reagan's bull-roarers was punctuated with little bleeps and high squirts of sound from the President's horns. ❋ Wills, Garry (1976)
The faces of bitter men, happy men quiet ones and big bull-roarers but all with one common feature, that greedy glitter in the eyes. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1964)
As we clambered down the mossed craggy paths, the wooden bull-roarers, that they dance to in the cave, boomed and roared in our ears; and when we had rowed out of the long shadow of the mountain into sunlit water, it was like being born again. ❋ Renault, Mary (1962)
This is the iniquity of this dull age: I remember the time when it went on the mad side; all your top wits were scowrers, [393] rakes, roarers, and demolishers of windows. ❋ George A. Aitken (N/A)
The most prolific wells are appropriately called "roarers." ❋ Barkham Burroughs (N/A)
No one more than Miss Austen has captivated the roarers among men. ❋ Robert Cortes Holliday (N/A)
"That!" he rumbled in reply (he was one of the roarers among men), ❋ Robert Cortes Holliday (N/A)
Is one of God's judgments; and which our roarers do only conceive terrible. ❋ John Earle (N/A)
She is the loadstone that attracts men of iron, gallants and roarers, where they cleave sometimes long, and are not easily got off. ❋ John Earle (N/A)
When after a tearful parting from their mothers and women folk, who believe or pretend to believe in the monster that swallows their dear ones, the awe-struck novices are brought face to face with this imposing structure, the huge creature emits a sullen growl, which is in fact no other than the humming note of bull-roarers swung by men concealed in the monster's belly. ❋ Unknown (1922)
While they are not in use, the bull-roarers are stowed away in the men's club-houses, which no woman may enter; indeed no woman or uninitiated person may set eyes on a bull-roarer under pain of death. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Among the Tami it is represented by causing the candidates to defile past a row of men who hold bull-roarers over their heads; among the Kai it is more graphically set forth by making them pass under a scaffold on which stands a man, who makes a gesture of swallowing and takes in fact a gulp of water as each trembling novice passes beneath him. ❋ Unknown (1922)
When he comes, a festival is held in his honour and bull-roarers are swung. ❋ Unknown (1922)
While the operation is proceeding, a prodigious noise is made by the swinging of bull-roarers to represent the roar of the dreadful being who is in the act of swallowing the young man. ❋ Unknown (1922)
