I actually wanted to use shawm in the bridging piece, but I don't seem to have one easily to hand -- then again, my organization being what it is, I may have half a dozen sampled shawms and just be clueless. ❋ Unknown (2007)
At last, barely audible above the expectant din, came the screech and hum of bagpipes and shawms a precursor of the modern oboe. ❋ John Dickie (2008)
The glad news was blazed abroad without delay; and they beat the tabrets and cymbals, whilst the shawms sounded and the people held high festival. ❋ Unknown (2006)
There was music on board, drums and fifes, shawms and trumpets, which wakened ringing echoes from every knoll of wood and slab of slate. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It's probably way too low tech for your readers, but just imagine the joy that an army of enthusiasts wielding jerry built shawms would bring. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Hands lifted children high, and drums and shawms and chimes made a racket even louder than the mob™s roar. ❋ Pierson, Chris (2001)
To a fanfare (“Of trumpets also and shawms,” Hilary said) he would encircle the tree and then, abandoning his load, would bow to his audience, make one or two esoteric gestures, and retire to the limbo from whence he had come. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1972)
By dinner-time he'll be stuffed full of tom-toms and shawms and dulcimers, or whatever they play in India. ' ❋ P. B. M. Allan (N/A)
_ -- OLD MORALITY back to-night; everyone glad to see him; with trumpets also and shawms would we have greeted him, but SPEAKER ruled proposed demonstration out of order; so only cheered. ❋ Various (N/A)
JEREMIAH had proposed to introduce Clause enabling inhabitants of town to protect themselves against the Sabbath incursions of a mob in red waistcoats and poke bonnets, with drums, trumpets also, and shawms. ❋ Various (N/A)
Why, when the chamber was prepared, did the bridegroom not enter with trumpets and shawms, as humanity expects? ❋ Forster, E. M. (1924)
There was to be a grand service, they said, with "trumpets and shawms" and the big drum, and the old Bishop preaching, making, in all probability, his very last public appearance. ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)
With shawms, and with cymbals, and harps of gold! ' ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
There will be a new church founded on moral science, at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again, the algebra and mathematics of ethical law, the church of men to come, without shawms or psaltery, or sackbut; but it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters; science for symbol and illustration; it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry. ❋ Unknown (1909)
In the Prayer-book version of (Psalms 98: 6) "with trumpets also stands also and shawms" is the rendering of what stands in the ❋ Unknown (1884)
"You might have a sacred concert, and Mr. Hicks could represent the shawms and cymbals with his flute." ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
When he gave great feasts, the musicians were "to play whilst the service was going to the table, upon sackbuts, cornets, shawms and such other instruments going with wind, and upon viols, violins or other broken music during repast." ❋ Unknown (1874)
With trumpets also and shawms, O show yourselves joyful before the Lord, the King. ❋ Protestant Episcopal Church In The Confederate States Of America (1863)
But when he revived he cried, "Is this wake or rather is't sleep?" after which he arose and bade the musicians of his band beat the kettledrums and blow the shawms and the trumps and he commanded adorn the city; and the citizens did all his bidding. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
